tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29555782976000781422024-02-18T20:07:10.515-08:00iLink SystemsGlobal software solutions provider and systems integrator,integrating software systems and developing custom applications, components, and frameworks on the Microsoft platform for IT departments, ASPs and ISVs.ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-54617767864172687132018-08-09T22:29:00.000-07:002018-08-09T22:29:52.957-07:00Moving to the Cloud (O365, Azure, AWS)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3" id="025c" name="025c" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 10px;">
iLink typically partners with organizations like yours to work on the following types of projects:</div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="b426" name="b426" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
· <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">Moving to the Cloud (O365, Azure, AWS)</span> — Assessment & Readiness check, Plan and Migration</div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="2dbb" name="2dbb" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
· <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">Application development, Modernization and Maintenance</span> : Strategic partnership to help with the right build vs buy decision making and core expertise in multiple technology stacks</div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="2de2" name="2de2" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
· <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">BI, Analytics, Visualization and Data Management</span> — BI Health Assessment, BI tool Evaluation/Selection/Migration, Creating custom BI Reports/Dashboards/Scorecards and BI Performance tuning & Optimization</div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="7ac7" name="7ac7" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
· <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">QA & Testing</span> — QA Consulting, Domain/Functional/Specialized Testing services, Performance & Load Testing and Automated QA</div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="4c51" name="4c51" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
· <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">Mobile application development</span></div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="6c51" name="6c51" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
· <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">IoT</span> — Device Connectivity and Management, Operational Insight, Advanced Analytics and Data Visualization</div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" id="147d" name="147d" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
For more information about our services, please visit us @ <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Services-Overview" href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Services-Overview" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Services-Overview</a></div>
<div class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing" id="b56a" name="b56a" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.17; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-top: 29px;">
Please contact me at <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">425–869–8104 or reply</span> to this e-mail to set up a convenient time to talk or meet. Thank you and I look forward to your response.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-85827516225846045012017-12-27T21:00:00.000-08:002017-12-27T21:00:28.690-08:00Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers | Microsoft CSP Partners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid" data-vc-full-width-init="true" data-vc-full-width="true" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; left: -104.5px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 104.5px; padding-right: 104.5px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.5s ease; width: 1349px;">
<div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 855px;">
<div class="vc_column-inner " style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 0px; width: 855px;">
<div class="wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1504177487542" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px !important; padding-top: 20px !important;">
<div class="wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">
iLink is a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) offering cloud licensing solutions, value-added services and helping businesses of all size take advantage of cloud services by directly managing support and owning the entire billing process. We drive your cloud strategy, deployment, and business success rate.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 285px;">
<div class="vc_column-inner " style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 0px; width: 285px;">
<div class="wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1504180552393" style="background-color: rgb(0, 174, 239) !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px !important; padding: 10px 10px 20px !important;">
<div class="wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;">
Existing Customer?</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-align: center;">
<a class="LearnMore1" href="https://ilinksystemsinc449.sharepoint.com/sites/iLinkSupport" rel="noopener" style="background: rgb(241, 57, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 10px; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank">Login for Support <span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"></span></a></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="vc_row-full-width vc_clearfix" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px;">
</div>
<div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;">
<div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 1140px;">
<div class="vc_column-inner " style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; width: 1140px;">
<div class="wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1504178158632" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<div class="wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 23px; padding: 23px 0px 0px;">
What is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider?</h4>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
The Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, a program designed by Microsoft for partners to strengthen and place themselves at the center of customer relationships, enables us own end-to-end customer engagement, manage your entire Microsoft Cloud life cycle right from provisioning/deployment, billing, managing updates to support, and sell combined offers and services.</div>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 23px; padding: 23px 0px 0px;">
How did iLink qualify?</h4>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">
In order to become a Tier 1 CSP partner, the partner must provide value-added services, reliable end to end customer support, simplified billing and customer Management. As a managed Microsoft Cloud Partner, iLink demonstrated its ability to provide value-added services and 24*7 customer support for its customers.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">
<a href="https://www.ilink-systems.com/services/microsoft-cloud-solution-provider/" target="_blank">Read More..</a></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-31951753916126181182016-07-06T00:07:00.001-07:002016-07-06T00:07:08.597-07:00Hub intranet services | Enterprise Social Intranet Solutions | Cloud Int...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gWJQwxBiF5A" width="480"></iframe>ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-90065495955565617422016-06-29T04:06:00.001-07:002016-06-29T04:06:26.606-07:00Understanding Data - Scale Invariance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 32px;">Now one may ask why am I nit picking these things. The first point obviously means our modes calculated with an approximated measurement aren't exactly absolute modes. This is because if suppose we assume that number of months in a year is not 12 but 10 then the age of a person with the new year scale will be quite different from the previous scale. This means trees which were five years old could get bumped to six years. Such a rearrangement of data points could throw up a new mode. Infact it is so bad that if you select a number, I could possibly work out a way to make it the mode by changing the base scale. <a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/thinking-beyond/blogs/ArtMID/2696/ArticleID/310/Understanding-Data-Scale-Invariance" target="_blank">Read More..</a></span></div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-54707173361903678092016-05-11T01:35:00.001-07:002016-05-24T03:24:16.614-07:00Microsoft and iLink to present a half-day event on “Manage, Leverage & Evolve your Infrastructure using O365 and Azure” in Bellevue WA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/about-us/press-release/ArtMID/2698/ArticleID/302/Microsoft-and-iLink-to-present-a-half-day-event-on-%E2%80%9CManage-Leverage-Evolve-your-Infrastructure-using-O365-and-Azure%E2%80%9D-in-Bellevue-WA#.VzLutLbwngs.blogger">Microsoft and iLink to present a half-day event on “Manage, Leverage & Evolve your Infrastructure using O365 and Azure” in Bellevue WA</a>: Redmond, WA May 11, 2016: iLink Systems, an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of several Microsoft "Partner of the Year" Awards, today announced an upcoming complimentary lunch event titled “Manage, Leverage & Evolve your Infrastructure using O365 and Azure” scheduled for May 25th, 2016 in Bellevue, WA. The event is co-sponsored by Microsoft and will be held at Microsoft-Lincoln Square,...</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-56599747465909231582016-04-05T22:43:00.000-07:002016-04-05T22:43:00.209-07:00Join an exclusive briefing jointly hosted by Microsoft and iLink Systems in Houston<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
Free Event for <a href="http://bit.ly/23fKoYL" target="_blank">Office 365 & Azure!! </a></div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
Attend this event to get first-hand knowledge about Azure, Office 365, <a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/" target="_blank">iLink’s</a> services and iLink solution accelerators which are a collection of reusable tools, technologies and processes that can help optimize your Office 365 and Azure and provide value added solutions to your end user.</div>
<h3 style="color: #be4628; font-family: weblysleekuil, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.725px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Key Benefits of attending the event:</span></h3>
<ul style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.375px; padding-left: 25px;">
<li style="line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Learn about how you can leverage the various IaaS offerings on Azure and increase your SLAs while reducing your TCO.</li>
<li style="line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Deep Dive into how you can move to Office 365 solutions like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, One Drive for Business etc.</li>
<li style="line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Learn about the various design options for moving to Office 365 and managing Office 365</li>
<li style="line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Get access to a large collection of reusable code, tools & templates; and other exclusive offers from iLink and Microsoft.</li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.05px;">Free Register : <a href="http://bit.ly/23fKoYL">http://bit.ly/23fKoYL</a></span></span></div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-65483059988778443962016-03-20T22:31:00.001-07:002016-03-20T22:31:48.522-07:00Microsoft surface solution provider<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s1AMvh5qOMQ" width="480"></iframe>ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-81793704597580586172016-03-17T02:17:00.001-07:002016-03-17T02:17:31.806-07:00Microsoft Himss ' 2012 - Interview with Anand Gaddum of iLink Systems, Inc<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NstudGdMxsc" width="480"></iframe>ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-385287523662182322016-03-09T21:12:00.000-08:002016-03-09T21:13:46.790-08:00Why Master Data Management(MDM)?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.7px; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;">In today's data intensive environment, organization face uphill task of maintaining and managing enormous data, more specifically manage "unmanaged" data. Errors in master data across multiple sources/applications can negatively impact an enterprise significantly in terms of increased cost and missed business opportunities or dissatisfied customers. iLink’s MDM solution can help enterprises create a trusted single version of the truth . Our MDM offering also enables enterprises to implement processes, governance, policies, standards and tools that consistently define and manage the critical data and thus reduce redundancies, across the applications which process the data. Thus, helping enterprises in reducing such costs and improving business growth.... <a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/MDM" target="_blank">(more)</a></span></div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-58745433707889860282016-03-08T22:15:00.003-08:002016-03-09T21:10:08.246-08:00Office 365 SharePoint Migration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
SharePoint Online delivers a single, unified location in the cloud where your people can easily cooperate with team members to exchange ideas and expertise, build custom team and project sites and solutions, finding organizational resources, or information search. You can also invite external users to view, share, and collaborate using extranet site groups. In SharePoint Online service, Instead of deploying and managing SharePoint internally, SharePoint Online gives you a complete hosted SharePoint experience. You and your business users have anywhere access to the rich collaboration, information management and business intelligence capabilities of SharePoint.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
iLink helps Organizations Migrate from earlier versions of Microsoft Office, Collaboration and Communication Products to Office 365 to enhance their Productivity and Collaboration in a dynamic fashion.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
Read More: <a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Solutions/Office-365-Solutions/Office-365-SharePoint-Migration">http://www.ilink-systems.com/Solutions/Office-365-Solutions/Office-365-SharePoint-Migration</a></div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-31913802272242527542016-03-07T21:41:00.004-08:002016-03-08T22:19:49.890-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Industries/Hospitality" target="_blank">Hospitality IT solutions | Hospitality Software Solutions</a></span></h2>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<ul style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.25px; line-height: 18.375px; padding-left: 25px;">
<li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="ret_txt" style="color: rgb(217 , 73 , 59);">Digital consumers:</span> Customers are better informed than the associates and hospitality brands work hard to increase their level of customer engagement and brand promise.</li>
<li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="ret_txt" style="color: rgb(217 , 73 , 59);">Workforce development:</span> High employee turnover affects profits. With a turnover rate of around 60 percent for low-level employees, employee attraction<span style="line-height: 1.6;">, and retention is a top issue for the hospitality industry. Executives and general managers must balance the industry's relatively low wages with training and management track programs. As well, trained employees increase customer satisfaction.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="ret_txt" style="color: rgb(217 , 73 , 59);">Gaining customer insights:</span> Hospitality organization have large volumes of data on their customers’ behavior, but they don’t necessarily have the right tools to interpret that data or know what to do with it. Data about customers and their behavior<span style="line-height: 1.6;"> history, combined with their social media activity data, can be analyzed and help the business add value to the guest experience.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 22.05px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="ret_txt" style="color: rgb(217 , 73 , 59);">Changing business models:</span> Today’s digital consumers are creating a sense of urgency for hospitality organizations to take the last decade of digital marketing activities and reorganize, add new skills, formalize processes, and build out an operation that can exploit data and technology. Funding innovation and guest engagement means that cost reduction is critical. In addition, the platform for the development and delivery of business applications should support the customers' expectations of the travel process. A key example is the need for enhancing Internet-based passenger reservation systems. </li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.7px; line-height: 22.05px;">Get More Solution: </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.7px; line-height: 22.05px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1YpTCis">http://bit.ly/1YpTCis</a></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-78773649449942712412016-03-07T21:35:00.002-08:002016-03-07T21:35:13.852-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h3 style="color: #be4628; font-family: weblysleekuil, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.725px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">
<a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Solutions/SharePoint-Solutions" target="_blank">SharePoint Solutions & Services</a></h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
In a world where your Intellectual Property (Content) is Power Supreme, Collaboration is a mechanism to Success, Search and Discovery provide Agility, Security is Paramount and Analytics a tool to aid in Decision Making, where Cloud and Mobility provide the Flexibility and Coverage, SharePoint is the Productivity Platform that enmeshes all these into a suite that offers stability, scalability, transparency and powers your organization in an era of Dynamic, Social and Connected World.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
SharePoint 2013 introduces new ways to share your work and work with others, organize your projects and teams and discover people and information. Many organizations like yours are considering migrating or upgrading to gain full business value from the exciting features in SharePoint 2013.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify;">
Get More: <a href="http://bit.ly/1QDleyX">http://bit.ly/1QDleyX</a></div>
</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-58375392812230893722016-03-04T01:11:00.000-08:002016-03-04T01:12:12.410-08:00Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365 Migration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Businesses migrate their Lotus Notes based Mail, Applications and Workflows to Exchange, SharePoint / Office 365 to transform an organization to become more agile, productive and cost-effective. Organizations are focused on making the most of their technology investment. Consolidating to a single vendor solution platform for email, collaboration, employee engagement within the organization has become a priority for most organizations that used Lotus Notes. Increasingly organizations have started seeing Lotus Notes as an unnecessary expense that does not fit into their larger business strategy. Cost reduction through a single platform and readily available support for the platform from Microsoft are the drivers for organizations to migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. This helps them avail improved functionality, attracting and retaining talented employees and becoming more nimble and connected. </span><br />
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">iLink has helped organizations migrate from </span><a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Lotus-Notes-Migration-to-SharePoint-and-Office-365" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">Lotus Notes</a><span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> to </span><a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Technology/SharePoint" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">SharePoint</a><span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> and </span><a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Technology/Office-365" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">Office 365</a><span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">. iLink has successfully used migration tools like the Dell OnDemand Migration tool, Quest, AvePoint, MetaLogix Migration Manager and Microsoft’s Online Notes Inspector (MONTI).</span><br />
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">For More: </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7b7978; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1p3POrA">http://bit.ly/1p3POrA</a></span></span></div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-51591005177233063922015-12-17T01:32:00.004-08:002015-12-17T01:32:50.677-08:00NoSQL Solution Series - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
NoSQL is something that we hear about a lot these days. In a series of articles, I will try to highlight what, when and why we need NoSQL solutions. Also there are several NoSQL options available in Azure. We will try to explore each of these and try to understand when to use which solution.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
This article focuses on the basics on NoSQL:</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
First of all, the term "NoSQL" is a misnomer. What it means is "non-relational". Well if you remember E.F. Codd, ACID properties & the evolution of RDBMS you might say that we have come a full circle. That's true in a way. Because with the proliferation of various types of data - documents, JSON, User Preferences etc and with the advent of Internet Of Things (IoT), there has been a significant change in the very nature of data. Earlier most DB systems were built to support organizational data - meaning transnational data and therefore Relational DB made perfect sense. Now the nature of data is changed to - high volume, high variety & high velocity. In comes NoSQL!</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
NoSQL is not a technology but a conceptual solution solved by using different database technologies. Fundamental idea is to support "high volume, high variety & high velocity" data storage. But this does not mean traditional RDBMS is getting replaced. There is still a lot of data that is well structured and suited for RDBMS in which cases the solution is to use a RDBMS database. Both RDBMS & Non-RDBMS (NoSQL) have their own space and a database architect needs to make a call on the right solution based on the nature of the data and needs of the customer.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
In our next post, we will look at the basic classification/types of NoSQL and the advantages of using NoSQL.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-70947115072261148842015-12-17T01:32:00.000-08:002015-12-17T01:32:04.198-08:00E-Commerce Industry: The business area for IT companies in the Middle East<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The Middle East's e-commerce space has been booming over the last few years, with a recent report by payment solutions provider Payfort, suggesting regional e-commerce sales could touch $15 billion by end of 2015, up from $9 billion in 2012. Competitive pricing and better deals (60 per cent) were found to be key motivations for users shopping online, while convenience (56 per cent) was also a key factor. The report found that there are around 4.43 million online buyers in the region mainly spread across the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait, with the UAE accounting for the biggest chunk at 3.6 million. Online shopping in the Middle East is rapidly evolving and has grown by 1500% over the last decade. With a dynamic young population and with one of the highest global per capita internet penetration levels the online spending potential is quickly emerging as one of the highest in the world.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
PayPal has relatively recently joined the party and they recently released some statistics based on their research in the region:</div>
<ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; list-style: disc; orphans: auto; padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">There are 110 million internet users in the Middle East and North Africa, of which 30 million are shopping online already. PayPal estimates a total population of 350 million.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Spending online in the Middle East and North Africa was $9 billion in 2012 and is forecast to grow to $15 billion by 2015, of which $3 billion will be spent on mobile, up from the $500 million spent today.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Travel tickets are currently the biggest spend for online shoppers in the Middle East, with an average of $1,521 spent each year, followed by $250 on consumer electronics.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">About 10% of purchases in the Middle East are made on a tablet or mobile, and 90% at a PC or laptop.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Trade between online shoppers in the Middle East and businesses based in the region makes up only 10% of total spend. The rest is consumers buying from outside the Middle East and delivering to the region.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">About 80% of online purchases in the Middle East are made with cash on delivery. Credit and debit cards make up 15% and PayPal the remainder.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Souq.com, Cobone.com and Sukar.com are the three biggest, locally-based e-commerce sites in the Middle East based on consumers’ average annual spend.</li>
</ul>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
A large chunk of regional entrepreneurs are now targeting e-commerce or online platform based industries. "Creativity is the name of the game moving to the future. Hence, the internet offers regional entrepreneurs new ways to market their goods and services and differentiate themselves at the same time. thanks to social media and heavy internet usage, people are turning to online portals for time and efficiency. Businesses that are centered around facilitating time and those that help consumers find solutions to existing problems will be extremely successful. But while the industry is flourishing, experts highlight the lack of established players, with only a few successful ventures standing tall in the region.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Setting Up Troubles</strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
One major challenge to set up an online venture is that although it is extremely easy for an entrepreneur to start a business in cities such as Dubai, permissions for e-commerce gateways are still a grey area in the region. In order to set up full-fledged e-commerce portals, companies invest a hefty sum or generally piggy back off existing portals. Presently learning from more advanced digital markets like India, where the technical talent and resources have really made it easy to launch a digital venture.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Developing your E-Commerce Business</strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
A successful e-commerce store development could be difficult if you are not well aware of the basic principles and techniques on how it should work for your online business. With some know-how and basic idea you can come up with an online store that can really help your business to make good money online. A professional ecommerce store can bring you number of benefits such as cost reduction by reducing labor, shorter payment time, flexibility and efficiency and improved customer services. You will also get access to the new markets with high potential anywhere in the world.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
E-commerce store development requires professionals who have technical skills and expertise in creating an online shop for your business according to your specific needs. They have huge knowledge and experience of developing small and large e-commerce stores. With custom e-commerce you will be rest assured that your business would get remarkable online presence and high return on your investment. You can fully automate your business to managing from the stock, selling, payments, delivering and to the customer support. </div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
At<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">iLink Systems</strong>, having worked with companies in the US we have extensive experience at building E-Commerce solutions for key players and would like to collaborate with companies looking to expand their business the internet way.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion</strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The future of eCommerce in the Middle East is bright. We all know this, but it’s exciting to see the first real success stories of local and international brands that are paving the way for others to follow. More importantly, they are encouraging and building trust in online shopping in the Middle East and converting internet users to online shoppers. Another quick way to go eCommerce is to use an eCommerce engine like Shopify or uCommerce and here too we see increased interest within the region. Integrations with various online payment gateways are also becoming a more common feature across projects. The most popular payment gateways are: Network International (CyberSource), PayPal as well as solutions from Mashreq Bank (MiGS) and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-32774289003603222672015-12-17T01:30:00.001-08:002015-12-17T01:30:57.679-08:00Integrate your application authentication with Office 365<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Most of us working with Office 365 usually manage users through the O365 Admin Center portal. Did you know that Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AAD) is the directory store that is powering O365 for user management.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
If you are small/medium business organization and would like to manage all your application authentication through a common solution, then should you not leverage this AAD? Well, you are already paying for the Office 365 service so why not leverage the AAD that you already have?</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Now the common problem here is you don’t have direct access to AAD management from O365 Admin Center.<br />But if you have worked with Azure, you know that you can manage Azure AD from Azure Management Portal.<br />Now those are two different things – Azure Management Portal and O365 Admin Center.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">What if you are able to link those two together? Can I then manage my O365 AAD through my Azure Management Portal?</strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Well the answer to both the above questions is the same - “Yes, you can.” Now if I can manage my O365 AAD through Azure portal, then couldn’t I use it as a common authentication platform for my business applications? The answer is “Yes, you can”.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
It is very easy to make this association if you don’t have an existing Azure account.<br />Login to O365 Admin Center and under “Admin” click “Azure AD”. You will be directed to a page to create an Azure subscription and follow the steps there to create an Azure subscription using your O365 Admin account. It’s simple and direct.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
However there is another possibility – what if I already have an Azure account (<a href="mailto:a@live.com" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a@live.com</a>).<br />Also I have a separate O365 subscription (<a href="mailto:b@contoso.onmicrosoft.com" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">b@contoso.onmicrosoft.com</a>). Can I link these somehow?</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Well the simple answer is “Yes, you can”. But it’s a little convoluted process - not a simple one on one<br />matching. If you are stuck in a similar situation or would like to see the O365 AD associated with your Azure account, then here are the steps to associate your live account with your O365 account and access the AD associated with O365.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
1. Logon to Azure Portal using your live account.<br />2. Click on <strong style="font-weight: bold;">New -> App Services -> Active Directory -> Directory -> Custom Create</strong><br />3. Now select "Use existing directory" from the drop down as shown below:</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<img alt="Office 365" src="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Portals/0/Blog/o365.png" style="border: none; height: 245px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;" /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
4. Make sure you select the Check Box (in image above).<br />5. Now you will be logged out and redirected to Azure login.<br />6. Now login using your O365 Global Admin credentials.<br />7. Once you login, you will see a prompt asking to add your Azure account (<a href="mailto:a@live.com" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a@live.com</a>) as a global admin for O365 Tenant. Click <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Continue.</strong><br />8. Now logout and login again using your Azure account.<br />9. Go to Active Directory in Azure Management Portal and you can see a new AD</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
I remember seeing the default O365 AD by the name "Contoso".<br />Well, if you don't like it you can always rename it to whatever name you prefer.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Now that you have access to O365 AD you can do a lot more from secure application authentication & single sign on standpoint.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
More value out of Office 365 at no additional service cost! If you would like to integrate your applications into Office 365 AD for authentication,</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Please feel free to reach out to us.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-79137044945942400792015-12-17T01:29:00.001-08:002015-12-17T01:29:31.052-08:00The evolved Office 365 Enterprise E5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Recently Microsoft announced that the Office 365 Enterprise E4 plan will be replaced by the new “E5” plan before end of this calendar year.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Let us try to understand what this means:</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><u>E5 – An evolution of Office 365 capabilities:</u></strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The new E5 will offer a set of new capabilities and features for enterprises. The major ones announced by Microsoft are listed below:</div>
<ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; list-style: disc; orphans: auto; padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><u><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Skype for Business Feature Enhancements:</strong></u></li>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- This will provide people the ability to make and receive traditional phone calls in their Skype for Business client, and manage these calls with features like hold, resume, forward and transfer. Cloud PBX will be released for customers worldwide, with a configuration option for customers to use existing on-premises phone lines for inbound and outbound calling.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">PSTN Conferencing</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- This will allow people invited to a Skype for Business meeting in Office 365 to join the meeting by dialing in using a landline or mobile phone. This traditional dial-in capability is in addition to simple, single touch join options on PC, smartphone and browser, and allows people to join an online meeting even in places with no Internet access. PSTN Conferencing in Office 365 will also allow people to add others to a meeting by dialing out.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
This is something that we have been waiting for and finally it’s going to be available for all our enterprise customers and we are really excited!</div>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><u><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Enhanced Analytics:</strong></u></li>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
New analytics features like Delve Organizational Analytics and Power BI Pro will be provided as part of E5 license.</div>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><u><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Advanced security features:</strong></u></li>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">e-Discovery:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Earlier this year Microsoft acquired Equivio and the new “Equivio Zoom” will soon be providing powerful e-discovery features to help customers meet legal and compliance challenges<br />You can read more about its capabilities<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blogs.office.com/2015/05/21/analyze-office-365-data-with-equivio-zoom/" style="color: #cc2428; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Customer Lockbox:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>This new capability offers organizations complete control over its contents such that if some Microsoft engineer needs access to certain content to resolve an issue, the same can only be done<br />by getting the explicit approval from the customer, In other words Use of the Customer Lockbox feature ensures that Microsoft engineer does not get access to the customer’s content without customer’s explicit approval.</div>
<div style="color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Advanced Threat Protection (ATP):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Exchange Online today offers EOP for email protection against spam, viruses and malware. As the attacks are getting more sophisticated day by day, the ATP is a new feature to provide<br />advanced security on top of EOP. The features include protection against unknown malware and virus (using Machine Learning), Real time time to click protection against malicious URLs and rich reporting.</div>
</ul>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">What about the cost?:</strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Well, there is no official word here. But given that E5 offers additional capabilities, the cost of E5 could be higher compared to E4.<br />If you are an existing Enterprise E4 customer, then it’s time to start thinking about the various options at your disposal – upgrade to E5 or move to E3 plus Cloud PBX.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Finally ask yourself the question “What is the business value versus the cost increase?” and you will know what to do.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-85141713809145192882015-11-13T00:50:00.003-08:002015-11-13T00:50:52.986-08:00Learnings from GITEX 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><em style="font-style: italic;">What is GITEX?</em></strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Launched in 1981, GITEX is the ICT business gateway to the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia Region. Focused on providing exhibitors with high ROI through direct business opportunities with decision makers, GITEX has maintained its position as the industry’s trend setting authority. GITEX continually identifies the hottest global IT trends and incubates these into the event either as new sectors or conference programs. The sectorization of GITEX has enabled new companies to participate in identified trends as well as giving visitors the opportunity to engage, learn and implement the advances in the industry. GITEX’s role in the ICT industry is pivotal for the re-export market. It is an annual international trading hub for the global technology sector. GITEX acts as both, an inbound sourcing platform for the entire Middle East region and the eminent source for anyone interested in doing business in the region.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Key Market Trends in the Middle East </em></strong></div>
<ul style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; list-style: outside none disc; padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">With over 2.2 billion smartphone users worldwide, the mobile market easily outnumbers the broadband internet market. This, combined with advances in smartphone technology, means the mobile device is the future of all advertising. As device manufacturers provide handsets with embedded applications such as Facebook and You Tube, the groundwork has been laid for greater UGC (user generated content) and as such, it will become the ultimate advertising platform that will reside in people’s pockets, no matter where they are or when they access their phones.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">The Net Generation in the Middle East: Born after 1977, the Middle East presents a unique swathe of Net Generation users, for whom all things digital come as second nature and who therefore embrace technological advances and who are prepared to spend higher than average proportions of their income on media and content consumption.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Traditional media (print) still plays an important role in the Middle East due to the established newspaper reading culture.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Literacy plays an important role and has a direct impact on traditional printed media and there are wide differences from country to country in the region. For example in Morocco and Yemen the average literacy level is around 50%, compared to 90% in Kuwait, UAE and Qatar. This results in disparities from country to country where literacy levels are low and visual mediums such as TV have a higher importance attached to it, compared to print media.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Broadband penetration – low and slow broadband penetration remain major constraints to the wholesale adoption of modern media methods and again vary from country to country. Typical barriers to improvement in this sector include cultural barriers, high retail pricing and poor telecommunications access network infrastructures.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Despite the high costs of implementing and developing telecommunications access network infrastructures across large geographical areas, the mobile phone is rapidly emerging as a rival means to broadband access and internet content delivery and is increasingly providing an alternative way of watching TV on the go via IPTV technology.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Broadband penetration in the Middle East will grow strongly, supporting social network growth and e-commerce development.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Tablet adoption will rise quickly in the region as multiple devices enter the market, creating new content opportunities.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Facebook will open up new opportunities for Arabic language marketing.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">The swelling numbers of consumers online across MENA will force more consumer brands, retailers and consumer service companies to embrace digital.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">The Arab world’s online shopping market will become broader-based, providing consumers with new choice and web ventures with new opportunities.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Online Arabic language content will remain an issue of concern for the region, but opportunities for Arabic content will continue to grow, perhaps faster than ever before.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">Independent online media launches will continue, whilst traditional media continue to procrastinate about online.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">A new generation of specialized blogs will emerge in the Middle East</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: justify;">We will see more social change and social initiatives driven by online media, with people finding new ways to work together to achieve community objectives.</li>
</ul>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Top 5 Tech Trends from the GITEX Shopper</em></strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i><span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">1 Multi-device lifestyles:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>Mobile devices are becoming an indispensable part of everyday life both at home and at work, as our world becomes increasingly digitized and connected. It is now commonplace for people to not only own more than one device, but also to use more than one device simultaneously, such as browsing social media on a smartphone while watching TV.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i><span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">2 Wearable Tech:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>The wearable technology market is gaining traction with everything from fitness and health related products to smart watches and audio-wearable tech. These products are becoming increasingly complex, able to provide significant levels of information and contribute to quality of life – whether convenience, time management, enjoyment, or critical health monitoring. </div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i><span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">3 Mobile Commerce:</strong></span></i> The growth of mCommerce is changing the way consumers purchase goods and services, with the use of handheld devices such as smartphones and laptops leading to a surge in both markets.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i><span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">4 Social photography:</strong> </span></i>With one out of every four people around the world now regularly accessing social media, social photography is driving demand for smartphones, tablets and digital cameras. While smartphones and tablets provide the fastest sharing option of moments, digital cameras offers the highest quality pictures which can now also be shared thanks to new technology such as inbuilt WI-Fi.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i><span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">5 Interconnectivity:</strong></span></i> As homes get smarter, the tech industry continuously produces devices capable of “communicating” with each other, such as TVs, smartphones, computers and refrigerators which are revolutionizing the way we live our lives.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-44155566050470503502015-11-13T00:29:00.004-08:002015-11-13T00:29:48.978-08:00Does Microsoft OFFICE 2016 make life easier?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #7b7978; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="http://goo.gl/LGmIJk" target="_blank"><em style="font-style: italic;">For 2 decades, Microsoft Office has been ingrained in everything we do when it comes to home or office computing.</em></a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
It’s been the one thing that has existed on virtually every computer - essential for home accounting, homework for the kids, sending personal emails and doing important projects at home for work or college. At this stage, it’s safe to say that it’s part of the family.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Now, Microsoft has released Office 2016. These apps are the latest addition to Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based subscription service, their most comprehensive solution ever. Office 2016 isn’t just about Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The new and enhanced productivity suite has a lorry-load of incredible and helpful new tricks and features that are designed to make your life (and work) that much easier.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Microsoft applications of the past introduced you to the very concept of computing, but now they are reinventing what it means to be productive online. Be that connecting, creating and sharing with friends and colleague all over the world. All of which is doable on every type of device - no longer confined simply to your laptop.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Microsoft believes that you do — but more importantly, it wants you to get on the new way of thinking about Microsoft software: constantly updated, available in the cloud, and getting new features all the time. But that vision will take time to pan out. Right now you should make your choice to switch based on whether or not you really want the new features.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Office 2016 allows several people to work together on documents and incorporates a “Groups” section into its software that makes it easier for people to collaborate on projects. It also adds a “Tell Me” tool to Word, Excel and others that allows users to quickly search for functions instead of navigating Office’s labyrinth of menus, makes improvements to Outlook that prioritize important emails, and deeply incorporates Skype, the internet chat and video call service. New features in Windows 10 such as Cortana also integrate with the software, allowing the personal assistant to read and search your files to improve features such as the calendar.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Creating, collaborating, together with real time co-authoring</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
One of the biggest additions to the new Office 2016 is real-time co-authoring in Word. For the first time, you can now work on the same document at precisely the same time as potentially multiple friends and family members - not only that but you can see it all happen as they type. All of the changes are stored on one of Microsoft’s Cloud services and you can view and edit everyone’s revision history too.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Clutter be gone</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Don’t you just love the work that your Spam folders are doing? They take in all the emails you never want and store them away from your eyes so you don’t have to worry about them. That’s what Clutter aims to do on more broad level. For example, if you never open emails from that online retailer you subscribed to, now they will be bundled together alongside those daily ‘funny’ emails your uncle sends you.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Skype integration</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Sometimes you just need to have a chat with the people to collaborate. Before, you had to either call, email or use a third-party app or software to get your point across. Now, Microsoft have added the ability to chat from inside the apps so you can collaborate instantly, via Skype. For example, start video or voice) from within Microsoft Word or Outlook - so no need to open or click between any other apps/windows. Just one click and you’re there - making collaboration seamless.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Tell me something you need</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Sometimes, remembering the smallest things can be the hardest. If you hate formatting documents and trying to remember how to carry out a function like text indentation, a feature you may only use once in a blue moon. Now Office has come up with a solution. That solution is Tell Me. Simply enter a text command and Office will instantly figure out what needs doing and fix it for you. Want to change font to Arial? Simply enter “change font to Arial" and click on the corresponding command in the Tell Me search bar. Simple.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Smart Lookup is pretty smart</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Ever been in a document before but need to check the spelling or definition of a word? Now, all you have to do is highlight the text or phrase, right click and select Smart Lookup in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Office will then correlate all the most relevant info for you to use - all in your current window, meaning you won’t have to pop between applications and potentially get lost amongst a sea of cat videos. It can also be used for more complicated tasks like gathering info on cities, backing up your statements, checking dates and much more.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Away with the cloud(s)</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
When you sign up to Office 365, you get 1TB (that’s 1,000GB’s) of cloud storage. This is really an incredible offering - perfect for you or your family backing up your family photos, videos, documents, files or anything for that matter. This could all but eliminate the need for you to lug around those hefty storage hard-drives and better still, when it’s in the cloud, it’s easily accessible all over the world and on any device. And just to put that 1TB into perspective, other popular online storage clients only give you 25GB of storage. Not bad?</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sharing made simple</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
With the growing need to be able to share anything and everything - Office 2016 now enables you to share right from your document with a click of a button. This may sound simple (and it is), but this new feature will save you a lot of time.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: red;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Perfect for all the family</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
If you sign up to Office 365 for the year, you only have to pay for one user. That includes new Office 2016 apps for PC and Mac as well as installation on PC or Mac, tablet and phone. You’ll also get that shiny 1TB we talked about and expert Office technical support included. Not to mention the fact that Office 365 is now always updating it’s features so as soon as they become available, you’ll have them. You can also pay monthly, should you need to.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-32255085124801692052015-08-27T23:36:00.000-07:002015-08-27T23:36:33.827-07:00Who’s the best PA after all??<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-IN</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="false"
DefSemiHidden="false" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="371">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footer"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of figures"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope return"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="line number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="page number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of authorities"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="macro"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="toa heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Closing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Message Header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Salutation"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Date"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Note Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Block Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Hyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="FollowedHyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Document Map"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Plain Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="E-mail Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Top of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Bottom of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal (Web)"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Acronym"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Cite"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Code"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Definition"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Keyboard"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Preformatted"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Sample"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Typewriter"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Variable"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Table"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation subject"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="No List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Contemporary"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Elegant"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Professional"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Balloon Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Theme"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" QFormat="true"
Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="41" Name="Plain Table 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="42" Name="Plain Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="43" Name="Plain Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="44" Name="Plain Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="45" Name="Plain Table 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="40" Name="Grid Table Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="Grid Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="List Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="List Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="List Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;}
</style>
<![endif]--><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">A take on Cortana vs Siri vs Now!!</span></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">The battle of
the digital assistants is back, with Microsoft releasing a new version of
Cortana in the latest Windows 10 Build. With Apple presenting the iOS 9 with an
improved Siri, it was expected that Microsoft will push itself back into the
race, with a more helpful Cortana. With each passing year, the digital
assistant war shifts priorities from the precision of the results provided to
how inconspicuously your digital life can be managed by your assistant with
minimal supervision.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">Each digital
assistant has its own agenda. One of the primary advantages Siri poses is the
interface where she quietly works behind the scenes. The integration of Siri
with the iOS is incredible. Her providing results of what you think, even
before you request her for it, seems like pure magic the first few times. It
defines the direction we head to in an era with digital assistants, where she
plays out your exercise beats once you enter the gym, launches the Apple pay
app when you approach the pay counter at the groceries and knows what you want
without being explicitly told. One of the biggest features coming to iOS this
year is intelligence. With iOS 9, iPhones and iPads are getting more
capabilities and smarter processing, based on what Apple is calling
"proactive assistance." Siri and Spotlight on iOS 9 work together
more tightly than ever before, and Apple says they are the backbone to the
underlying recommendation system behind iOS 9's new smarts. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">Google Now has
quite a different approach where in a set of cards are provided for each
search. Once configured, each set of cards, appear with a list of options
alongside it giving the user the choice to filter the cards provided as per
requirement. Currently judged the best among the three, Google Now does an
incredible job of giving the user options to fine tune what he/she views,
keeping in mind previous searches, telling the user when to leave for the next
appointment and providing notifications on the Chrome browser on the desktop.
All this is done with a commendable connecting of dots by going through emails
and calendar synced with the Cortana app, estimating the traffic and time taken
through Maps and finally giving the user a reminder for the time to leave for
the appointment. Keeping in mind your current location and your interests, it
also gives places to visit nearby and restaurants to dine out.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">On triggering
the Search app, Cortana provides a one-page summary in a card-like fashion of
what she thinks is of priority to the user. The new Cortana looks really great,
and with Microsoft fixing the few bugs that have crept into the latest build,
she definitely puts herself at par with the others in the race. Bills to be
paid, game scores, local weather were all arranged in a summary in this lovely
UI. Cortana scores with her personal touch in this build, where you actually
feel there is a mind working somewhere behind the screen. The latest build
gives very neat and organized look, and a connectivity between your PC, tablet
and phone.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">Cortana’s Key New Features</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN">Your Microsoft account helps
keep your personal assistant connected to you across device experiences,
whether on your PC, phone or Xbox One. Cortana’s Notebook will be available
across your devices to keep track of details important to you. Cortana only
knows what you want her to know and you are fully in control of how you use her
across devices.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN">On Xbox One, Cortana knows your
friends and makes it easy to invite them to play with you through simple voice
commands. If you want to record and share a clip of your game play, you can use
Cortana to precisely control the length of the recording and quickly share it
with your friends without leaving your game. Cortana will also help you find
information about games, such as the release date of an upcoming game, or help
you get achievements by surfacing videos and information to help you succeed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN">On your Android phone you can
ask Cortana to remind you to walk the dog at 8pm in the evening, and then when
you’re watching a movie your Xbox will interrupt playback to let you know it’s
time to take the dog out. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">New in the Competition</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">News is that
Yahoo hinted that the firm might compete with voice-based virtual assistants in
the future with its own search-based mobile offering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is worth mentioning that Yahoo has already
taken a step towards offering a virtual assistant product with its Aviate
launcher, which learns user's behaviour and shows up content and apps most relevant
to the user at that point of time in the day. Of course, the app has a long way
to reach the likes of Siri, Google Now and Cortana. Recent reports also
indicate the firm will unveil a messaging app later this quarter, a
video-focused product that will take on popular rivals like Skype and Snapchat.
The unnamed messaging app is said to be the first product under CEO Marissa
Mayer.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">Soundhound
announced the beta launch of Hound, a voice-enabled search assistant that
responds to more queries, more quickly, than any of its competitors. The company
also announced the private beta launch of Houndify, a developer platform that
will give companies the chance to add its services or information to Hound. The
announcement included word that Expedia, the travel booking service, has
already partnered with Hound to enable users to book flights and hotel rooms
using Hound. Hound will be in for a fight to build awareness for this new
service. Apple, Google and Microsoft have all invested heavily both in
developing their voice features, and carving out space for Hound and Houndify
will be a challenge. However the makers think the quality of his product will
make the difference.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">In Conclusion</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">It’s hard to say
one personal digital assistant is the best for you because basically your
personal digital assistant choice will be dictated by whether you buy an
Android phone or a Windows Phone or an diPhone – neither personal digital
assistant is available on the other’s hardware. However, feature-for-feature,
Microsoft’s Cortana comes in ahead of Google’s Now. The level of control and
personalization Cortana offers is far superior to anything Now has. Microsoft
clearly knows that while personal digital assistants are still somewhat of a
novelty for now, they are certainly the future of computer interaction as our
devices get smaller and more wearable. Voice will eventually be the only input
method of many of our wearables and the company is clearly positioning itself
to be the leader in where human/computer interfaces are going.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN">All in all, with
each of them vying to be the perfect digital assistant, we can expect much more
improvements ahead. On the flip side, what’s left to be found out is how much
of our personal details are being compiled in the cloud or digital database for
the purpose of our digital assistance.</span></div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-45502431202346625762015-07-30T23:44:00.000-07:002015-07-30T23:44:48.759-07:00WINDOWS 10 – What’s New??<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Microsoft made it clear that Windows 10 is in the very early stages. There are likely many new features to come—and many improvements to the interface beyond what we see today (the Charms bar, for example, will likely change, according to Microsoft).</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Some new features, which haven’t been mentioned before, include a full-screen start menu, a new action centre for interacting with notifications in a sidebar area, and a brand new settings experience where you can quickly tweak your system settings. Microsoft believes its new operating system is such a major step forward from Windows 8, that it skipped Windows 9 entirely. With a single design for devices ranging from smartphones to PCs, Windows 10 combines key functions from each of the major platforms.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Windows 10 also features a “Continuum” feature for computers that double as laptops and tablets. You can move around with a mouse and keyboard, but when you switch into tablet mode, Windows 10 will prompt you if you’d like to operate the device as a tablet. Tap the Start menu, for example, and it will automatically switch into a more touch-friendly full-screen mode.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Some of those features have already been discussed, and Microsoft covered new ones as well that are coming to the preview over the next 3-5 months. That includes Cortana for Windows 10, which is the first time the voice assistant is coming to the desktop. Cortana will exist in the search bar at the bottom left-side of your machine, where she can be called up by voice through the “Hey Cortana” command, and where pop-up notifications from Cortana will be displayed. Cortana can also be used to search OneDrive, your hard drive and more. You don’t always need to use voice, either, as you can also type out commands for Cortana inside the search bar.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<em style="font-style: italic;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><u>What does Windows 10 Fix?</u></strong></em></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Migrations started to get a lot better with Windows 7, but they are brilliant with Windows 10. You basically log in with your Microsoft -- or if you're on a work PC, your work ID -- and all of your settings, apps and personalities transfer down from the server (be aware that this doesn't apply to legacy apps or if you are coming from Windows XP).</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Once on Windows 10, getting one, two or six PCs is login-easy, and as you move to the newer apps, the experience is similar to what you currently get with iOS or Android. You buy a new PC, log in, and after a short wait, your new PC looks like your old one.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The even bigger move, at least when it comes to creating a reliable product, is that those of us testing Windows 10 automatically will get upgraded to the final version with Windows Update. Since we started with a valid version of Windows 7 or 8, we still get a free upgrade to Windows 10 without having to figure out what happened to our old Windows disks.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
This means more of us actually are using Windows 10 in production, and that the number of testers Microsoft thinks it has internally and externally is one hell of a lot closer to the number it actually does have. I do think it is likely going to take a while for some people to break a decades-old habit of using two machines, but it is still a huge step in the right direction.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<em style="font-style: italic;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Most interesting features of Windows 10</u></strong></em></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Made for Enterprise</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Windows 10 is stated to be Microsoft's "greatest enterprise platform ever”. The operating system's four enterprise values.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
First, there's compatibility "with all the traditional management systems used today." Second, there's the customised store. Third is the quite excellent addition of data security by separation of corporate and personal information. And finally there's productivity, something that Windows 10 is heavily geared towards.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Productivity</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Windows 10 task view allows you to access multiple desktops. Joe Belfiore, the man behind Windows Phone, said Microsoft has "embraced the idea of productivity for the widest scale of Windows users." The centrepiece of this feature is multiple desktops. Users launch on the desktop task view, which opens multiple miniature windows at the bottom of the interface that shows all apps currently open.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The new 'Snap Assist' UI allows users to then grab apps from multiple desktops, meaning users can do things faster and easier.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Continuum</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The emphasis on productivity is equally served by a more seamless integration of touch and keyboard functionality. Windows 10 adds Continuum, a feature which allows users of 2-in-1 devices to switch between touch and keyboard inputs easily.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Windows 8 had confusing user experience when launching modern apps. It's a merging of Windows 7 and the few good things of Windows 8, chief among them Touch. The Charms bar will continue to exist on touch systems, but will be adapted.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
And that's not all for improved keyboard use. Command prompt has been made easier and more powerful. Users can now paste in directories into command prompt with Ctrl+V instead of having to trigger a context menu and hit the specific paste option.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Windows Insider Program</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Microsoft also announced the launch of its Windows Insider Program, designed to get feedback from users on how to improve Windows 10.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Forums will be set up for insiders to discuss technical issues and ideas, and engineers will be made available to consult with. The presentation urged users to become insiders and participate in building "a product that all of customers will love." The programme is pitched in at technology enthusiasts, for "people who know DLL is not the new OMG."</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<em style="font-style: italic;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><u>To Conclude:</u></strong></em></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
With Windows 10, Microsoft is trying to keep some of the touch and tablet features it created for Windows 8, combine them with the familiar Start menu and desktop, and run it all on top of an improved operating system with more security, a new browser, the Cortana assistant, its own version of Office for on-the-go editing and plenty of new features intended to make life simpler. Of course, that also means it's very different to use, whether you come from Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows XP. You have to look in a new place even to turn your PC off.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
On top of that, Windows 10 is more than just a PC operating system; it's also what will run on Windows phones – and on small tablets as well, because a 6-inch phone and a 7-inch tablet aren't such very different devices. Microsoft is expecting people to put Windows 10 on a billion devices (which ought to encourage more app developers to at least take a look at building their apps for Windows phones and tablets, as well as for Xbox One and HoloLens).</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Windows 10 </div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
http://www.ilink-systems.com/Technology/Windows-10 </div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0Redmond, WA, USA47.6739881 -122.12151247.5884501 -122.2828735 47.7595261 -121.9601505tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-23409384749328201532015-07-01T03:24:00.001-07:002015-07-01T03:24:24.700-07:00Product Development trends that are here to stay!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">When it comes to new product development in any organization with digital in mind, one has to really stay on top of technology trends and also ahead in the market competition. Many a times first mover advantage plays a vital role in the success of your product and can give you the edge in competition. However technology is always changing and some of the key trends to look out for in your product development strategy can be put in 4 broad categories:</span></div>
<ol style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; list-style: outside none lower-alpha; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Data</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">User Experience</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Smart Phone Capabilities</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Security</li>
</ol>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Data –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Big data has been talked about a lot and gotten a lot of hype throughout 2014 in the world of technology. The question here for product managers with digital products is about data; type of data and extent of it; what data are you currently gathering today and what data should you be gathering? Basing this in how you can actually use this data really helps in capturing more and more useful data. Today, data has more value than ever before. What data do you have that could be used in unique and useful ways to provide value to your business and your customers? What challenges that your customers face could you answer with data? These are the questions you should be thinking about and brainstorming with your teams throughout 2015.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">User Experience –</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The user experience side of software products is critical. Things have shifted in the last few years where today the majority of people want self-serve solutions to quickly solve their service problems. They don’t want to have to call a human being (or chat) and you don’t want that either. However, to make this happen your web and mobile products must be intuitive and easy to use. This has always been the case, but as more and more of your customers come to rely on your products, you need to make this a top priority. You need to not only plan for a great experience up front, but you also must be measuring the experience (abandon rates, usage, etc.) so that you can continually improve the experience based on what is and isn’t working. You must leverage data to study how users are using your product, what is engaging to them and what actions they are taking so you can work to constantly make that experience better.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Smart Phone Capabilities</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– This continued trend should come as no surprise to anyone, especially after the influx of smart phone users over the past few years. The use of smartphones have been on constant rise. The smartphone world is expanding at a rapid pace. There are more than a billion smart phone users across the world. Today, there are people who never go to your web application from a desktop – they only use your mobile app or site, and this number continues to climb upwards. You need to think mobile first and how your product can be used effectively by a mobile audience. Beyond making functionality work on a mobile device, you also need to consider crossovers and transitions: For example, when a customer is using multiple devices (web and phone for example) is the transition between using one device and another seamless? If the user starts using your product on their phone and then switches to a computer, does the system make that as seamless as possible for the user?</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Security<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>– From Target and Sony to eBay, big companies had embarrassing security breaches in 2014. These breaches of such well-known brands have since put security front and centre in people’s minds. You need to make sure that your products are secure- that they can withstand everything from a denial of service attack (even at the API level) to hacks.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Longer term trends</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
These trends may not be here today, but you can rest assured that they are coming. This means you should be experimenting with them now so that you are ready to hit the ground running when these trends become mainstream. This should involve thought experiments where the logic is considered, if X existed, how it would impact my product, to actual small experimentation using these technologies. You can also create a cutting edge reputation by being an early mover with these trends.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
In no particular order, we start with wearables and watches. Unless you are in the fitness/sports industry, in which case these are things you should have incorporated today, these need to be observed closely. We will soon learn if Apple can do to smart watches what they have done with music players, phones and tablets. Even if they aren’t as successful, there are going to be a lot of smart watches in the near future. It is important to begin thinking about how your interface and functionality can change to take advantage of something on your wrist and always on.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
The Internet of things, or as we like to think of it, sensors everywhere. As sensors become cheaper and more powerful you are seeing them come up all over the place. This produces a ton of data and allows physical items to be integrated further with digital products. Not all products will need sensors, but those that do will have a lot more data to use to provide insight, recommendations and ultimately, value. This integrates nicely with the data trend mentioned above.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Virtual Reality and head mounted displays could change how we view and interact with our digital products. There is a lot of activity here but most is early on. Google Glass has been met with some harsh reviews and feedback, but Google is one to learn from this feedback and come out with a much better product. Then there is Facebook’s Oculus Rift, which may come out this year, and Samsung has their Gear VR. Initially, these will be used for gaming, but we should be exploring how interfaces could change and be made to allow browsing and viewing data in virtual worlds. This won’t happen quickly, but this has the potential to unlock us from being tied to our computer screens.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
This leads to the biggest long-term trend; the digitization of everything, or the merging of the digital and physical world. This has been going on for years and we are entering the next big phase being driven by 3-D printers. We are seeing more and more these worlds coming together. Virtual Reality should accelerate this. In the meantime, what isn’t digital will go digital and everything will have sensors recording data.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Although we can’t 100% predict which trends will be the biggest, it is clear that technology continues to grow and be a part of the daily lives of your users. In order to stay ahead of your competitors, it is vital to consider these trends and start thinking about the impact they can have on both your business, and your customers. It is critical to spend time planning and thinking about the future and ensuring that you have a clear and executable strategy to differentiate your product and your business.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-27818976441576719512015-06-24T23:39:00.000-07:002015-06-24T23:39:17.034-07:00Azure Enablement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
Cloud provides on demand scaling, real-time performance and an infrastructure designed to withstand failure where resources are managed and scaled at a data center. <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Cloud-Computing/azure" target="_blank">Microsoft’s Azure</a> cloud provides a Management Portal with a self-service user experience and OData REST API. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Azure</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> offers multiple hosting solutions – App Service, Cloud Services and Virtual Machines. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink’s </span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Azure practice</strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;"> is a team of qualified experts with extensive<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Cloud-Computing/azure" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px none; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Microsoft Azure</strong></a><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>enablement and implementation experience</span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">. iLink’s Azure practice is Gold Certified by Microsoft on Cloud Platform (Azure and Office 365).</strong></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink analyzes customer infrastructure, applications and needs to recommend the appropriate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Azure</strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>solution for customers. iLink has built Azure Websites for Line of Business (LoB) applications and helps customers manage these sites from Azure Management Portal without any server maintenance or patching. Also iLink has created REST APIs and hosts them similar to Azure based Websites this facilitates integration between various Line of Business (LoB) applications.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink has built Azure based Corporate websites for companies that helped them scale quickly across the globe. iLink specializes in building such Corporate websites on a platform that provides customers, the insight to track the site health easily and run applications reliably.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink can migrate legacy web applications to Azure Cloud. iLink’s specializes in creating both hybrid application (onpremise database and application on the Azure cloud) or a completely Azure cloud based solution depending on customer preference. iLink can migrate web based multi-tier applications (developed in C#, Java, PHP, Python, Node.Js etc.), to Azure Cloud. iLink’s Azure framework creates Cloud Services on Azure for one or more tiers to provide customers tight control over their server environment, Azure Virtual machines for one or more tiers to run server software or services that can’t be configured on the Cloud Services. iLink’s Azure framework offers tight integration with Azure SQL Database and uses Web jobs to run backend processes.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Also, iLink can create Windows or Linux based Azure Virtual machines and customize the same for application needs. iLink can move existing on-premise server to the Azure Cloud by creating a custom image to run on a virtual machine in Azure.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="corp" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px none; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="iis6" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px none; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="custom" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px none; text-decoration: none;"></a><b><span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink has been helping organizations with the following: </span></b></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Azure Application Readiness, Strategy, Assessment and Planning</li>
<li><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Security Audit and Governance Plan for Applications on Azure</li>
<li><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Application Migration to Azure</li>
<li><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Line of Business (LoB) application development and deployment on Azure</li>
<li><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Maintain and Support applications on Azure </li>
<li>BI applications and dashboards on Azure</li>
<li><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Azure based Intranet Development and Maintenance</li>
</ul>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink has successfully migrated to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Azure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">and maintained</strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">various types of applications for organizations from various Industry verticals</strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;">. iLink has enabled various organizations to move to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Azure</strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cloud transforming their Infrastructure to an Agile, easily Scalable and Cost effective one thus making them a more productive and efficient organization.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">NORAD (Northcomm Aerospace Defence Command has been tracking Santa since 1955, and providing support for his safe journey for over 50 years, and were supported by Google as the technology partner in some of the past years. In 2012, NORAD approached Microsoft and iLink to re-architect the application on the Windows Azure platform, create a new design for the Windows Phone platform and a implement a new Windows 8 application. iLink’s Santa Tracker application for NORAD successfully handled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">93+ Million<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;">page views from over<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">30 Million unique users<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;">from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">235 countries<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="line-height: 1.6;">during the month of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">December 2012 alone. This has been deemed by Microsoft as one of the largest scalable applications on the cloud and a poster child for Windows Azure capabilities.</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink has designed, architected, and created a platform on Azure for a digital media based marketing firm that enables them to manage their end customers’ (Pharmacies, Retails, Corporates, etc), short form video content (applicable across different Products, Industries, business cases, categories, etc), manage Advertisements, Coupons, among many other features.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">iLink offers cost effective global delivery models for large scale Azure assessment, planning and enablement and also for maintenance and support engagements. iLink’s industry focused Azure Solution frameworks and solution accelerators offer significant head start to projects and offer faster time to market. For more information, browse<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://lnk.ie/145NH/e=manigandan.g@ilink-systems.com/http:/www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Cloud-Computing/azure" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6; outline: 0px none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ilink-systems.com/Services/Cloud-Computing/azure</a><span style="line-height: 1.6;">.</span></span></div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0Redmond, WA, USA47.6739881 -122.12151247.5884501 -122.2828735 47.7595261 -121.9601505tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-14001142144621856012015-06-02T02:41:00.000-07:002015-06-02T02:45:33.757-07:00Internet of Things leading to Smarter Cities<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Internet era as we know it officially began in the year 1993. A
mere two decades on, 19 billion devices now access the Web, with that
figure set to increase exponentially to around 30 billion by the year
2020, according to Gartner. This is the age of the <b>Internet of Things
(IoT).</b> Simply put, a network where everyday appliances and devices are
connected via the Internet.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The industrial and economic impact of this step-change has been
studied by analysts for the best part of a decade. The proliferation of
networked industrial mechanisms will ultimately enable automated
organisations to track, harness, analyse and exploit real-time data in
the workplace.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In a few short years, the reality of this environment will be studied
in Dubai, if the emirate realises its vision of becoming the region’s
first ‘smart city’. With more than half the world’s population living in
cities, the need for significantly improved urban management systems is
critical. A smart Dubai will see thousands of sensors placed across the
city collecting, managing and analysing real-time data. The trend is
gaining momentum in new and old cities alike.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
For example, governments in Paris have discovered that the amount of
shade produced by roadside trees positively impacts the lifespan of the
tarmac. As a result, they’ve begun placing sensors on the trees to track
their health, both for conservation as well as road maintenance. Also
in the French capital, sensors have been installed in city parking lots
to alert drivers of the nearest available space. A recent study by
UK-based Parkatmyhouse claims the average motorist spends 2,549 hours of
their lifetime hunting for parking spaces. The annual economic cost in
France alone is estimated at €700 million ($947 million), according to
data supplied by Sareco, a parking analyst. While the IoT isn’t new,
experts say it is now on the cusp of transforming the way we work, live
and play. The costs? Huge. The opportunities? Bigger.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The model most commonly adopted so far is to attract businesses which
develop software and hardware applications for the Internet of Things,
and encourage them to put their ingenuity to use to smarten the
surrounding areas. Public money is often put up as an incentive to do so
– an example is Glasgow, Scotland, the government has offered £24
million ($37 million) for technology which will make the city “smarter,
safer and more sustainable”. Applications developed or planned for the
program include intelligent street lighting which will switch itself off
to conserve energy when there’s no one around, mapping energy use
around the city to better understand demand, and mapping how people get
around to maximize the use of bicycle and foot paths.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Of course, there are plenty of people voicing the need for caution
over this wave of new technology. The systems are designed to collect
and interact with intimate details of our personal lives such as where
we travel, who we associate with, and even how we dispose of the waste
materials we generate. There is a danger that in the rush to be the
first to develop and market solutions aimed at improving citizens’
everyday lives, some aspects of privacy or information security could be
overlooked. On top of that, others have voiced concerns that,
particularly in the developing world, living in Smart Cities could be
prohibitively expensive for much of the population, leading to them
becoming enclaves of the elite, with local governance enforcing social
apartheid by keeping out the poor.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
These are challenges which will have to be overcome by the architects
behind the new systems, as well as legislators and civic authorities.
With smart phones and mobile technology increasingly becoming available
to a larger number of people, it should be possible to create inclusive
systems which are available to all.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
However, the potential applications are endless if the technology is leveraged in the proper manner.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Anders Lindbald, president of Ericsson Middle East, claims that
automated government-run processes can leverage the IoT in simple, yet
highly effective ways. For example, priority vehicles, such as
ambulances, can communicate with traffic signals to ensure that roads en
route to an emergency call are clear of red lights. Rabih Dabboussi,
managing director of Cisco UAE, says that injecting intelligence and
connectivity into everything we use is the logical next step in the
development of the IoT. While it may sound like science fiction, having
sensors on your clothes, shoes, watches, spoons and toothbrushes is
inevitable.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The full impact of the IoT on households is something that will take a
little longer to realise, but as the cost of microprocessors falls,
connectivity in the home will increase. Cisco foresees a future when a
child’s toothbrush will notify parents how long they’ve brushed for, the
fridge will re-order food from the store, household security systems
will switch on the lights before an owner returns home and a reduction
in daylight hours will inform a home’s thermostat when it should raise
the interior temperature.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The bottom line: The Internet of Things presents huge opportunities for smart economies in the 21st century.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0Redmond, WA, USA47.6739881 -122.12151247.6739881 -122.121512 47.6739881 -122.121512tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2955578297600078142.post-62514839647336785772015-06-02T02:38:00.000-07:002015-06-02T02:44:35.105-07:00Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365 Migration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Businesses migrate their <b>Lotus Notes</b> based Mail, Applications and
Workflows to Exchange, <b>SharePoint / Office 365</b> to transform an
organization to become more agile, productive and cost-effective.
Organizations are focused on making the most of their technology
investment. Consolidating to a single vendor solution platform for
email, collaboration, employee engagement within the organization has
become a priority for most organizations that used Lotus Notes.
Increasingly organizations have started seeing <b>Lotus Notes</b> as an
unnecessary expense that does not fit into their larger business
strategy. Cost reduction through a single platform and readily available
support for the platform from Microsoft are the drivers for
organizations to migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. This helps them
avail improved functionality, attracting and retaining talented
employees and becoming more nimble and connected.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>At a high-level an organization gets the following business
benefits through migration from Lotus Notes to SharePoint or Office 365:</b></div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Cost Reduction through reducing user training and improving user productivity</li>
<li>Capability enhancement through SharePoint FAST search, Tight
integration with Office 365 and Microsoft Office apps and SharePoint
Workflow templates that provide faster workflows than Lotus Notes.</li>
<li>Consistent and Easier Workflows - Enhanced Workflow Platform as
Microsoft has a Workflow foundation that works the same way across a
range of products.</li>
<li>Long term business strategy – facilitating business goals such as
innovation, agility, mobility, attracting and retaining talent, mergers
and acquisitions. Microsoft products clearly score over Lotus Notes in
fast tracking these business goals.</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
iLink has helped organizations migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint
and Office 365. iLink has successfully used migration tools like the
Dell OnDemand Migration tool, Quest, AvePoint, MetaLogix Migration
Manager and Microsoft’s Online Notes Inspector (MONTI).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>iLink’s Migration methodology typically comprises of the following:</b></div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><b>Pre-migration analysis</b></li>
<li><b>Migration strategy focusing on key facets such as</b>
<ul style="list-style-type: circle;">
<li>Gaining access to SharePoint features such as managed metadata and document sets</li>
<li>Using native web services, connect to SharePoint / Office 365 sites</li>
<li>Preserving the look and feel of Notes applications and cover Notes forms to Microsoft InfoPath list forms</li>
<li>Moving Notes data to SQL Server tables</li>
<li>Discovering Notes databases, analyzing how they are used and
determine which applications are unused, as well as those applications
that will need development</li>
<li>Using a customizable rules-based engine, specify target locations and migration jobs, hundreds of which can be migrated</li>
<li>Inhabit lists, libraries, sites and subsites based on existing Notes infrastructure</li>
<li>Maintain data fidelity when migrating rich text and complex
application data, as well as preservation of data including keyword
fields</li>
<li>Choice of document destinations beyond lists and libraries, including wiki pages, basic pages, and content publishing pages</li>
<li>For applications requiring custom form layouts, migrate Notes documents to InfoPath XML documents</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
iLink has migrated Lotus Notes Mail, Applications and Workflows to
SharePoint using Quest for a Global Chemical Distributor and a
Healthcare Insurance Provider. iLink has migrated complex Lotus Notes
Mail, Applications and Workflows to SharePoint using MetaLogix Migration
Manager for a global online retail platform.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
iLink has created some standard pre-migration analysis and migration
templates apart from a comparison matrix of using various migration
tools. Through these templates and a standardized migration methodology
iLink provides a faster turnaround as well as qualitative migration and
support to various customers who migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint
and Office 365.</div>
</div>
ilinksystemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14381170062022016697noreply@blogger.com0Redmond, WA, USA47.6739881 -122.12151247.5884501 -122.2828735 47.7595261 -121.9601505