What's Possible with IoT and Predictive Analytics [Emerging Tech Virtual Summit]

In the age of cybercrime, threats, and breaches, it's more important than ever to secure your IT operations, devices, and infrastructure through an integrated approach.

Now, for the first time ever, Microsoft is offering an integrated solution for your business that helps you achieve more together, anywhere it matters, with always-on security.

In this webcast, you will:
- Discover an integrated solution powered by Office 365 and Windows 10, designed for small and mid-size businesses.
- Learn how you can connect with your remote coworkers and work on a document in real-time using Word, Outlook, OneDrive, and Skype for Business.
- See how inking in Windows 10 enables you to take notes with OneNote.
- Learn how you can easily set-up policies to protect company data across devices with Microsoft 365 Business.

Today's manufacturers are operating in a world of uncertainty. Successful manufacturers are combating market volatility by focusing on productivity gains via new technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) and predictive analytics are likely to determine who wins and who loses in this age of uncertainty.

Join this virtual event to hear from leading experts and analysts about technologies manufacturers need to adopt to stay competitive. Industry analyst, Ray Wang will outline the macroeconomics trends affecting the industry and lay a path forward. Experts from Hitachi Solutions will discuss the promise of IoT and the cloud for discovering new opportunities and achieving operational efficiencies. Microsoft’s IoT lead will share upcoming trends to watch.

Hear leading experts and analysts discuss the state of manufacturing today—and a path to the future.

Task Types and Effort Driven can be two of the most confusing features of Microsoft Project, both to novice users and to experienced users alike. For example, have you ever changed one number in Microsoft Project, and then the software changed another number in response, and you don’t know why?

Guest expert Dale Howard will unlock the mysteries of Task Types and Effort Driven behavior in Microsoft Project, showing you how their behavior is logical, predictable, and meaningful.

Join this webcast to:
- Eliminate the confusion around these two Microsoft Project features
- Harness the power of Task Types in your own projects
- See how Effort Driven task statuses interact with each Task Type

Performing a system-wide migration across a large or complex environment is no easy task, but new Windows 10 deployment options, streamlined application rollouts, and enhanced cloud capabilities can ease the path. Find out how Microsoft IT approached the deployment of Windows 10 across a global user base, plus how they think about Windows as a service.

You'll also hear about Microsoft IT's best practices and lessons learned—from application compatibility testing and upgrade strategies to smoothing the deployment path through end user readiness.

Join this webinar to:
- Learn how Microsoft IT is using new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update.
- Find out how Windows IT approaches Windows 10 update management.
- Get your questions answered in a live Q&A

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft does deployment? Get your questions answered about how Microsoft IT approaches migrations and rollouts.

Emerging technology allows organizations to differentiate through service and increase revenue while improving customer experiences.

After-sales service is now one of the biggest opportunities for companies looking to generate revenue, increase margins, and improve customer loyalty. Used correctly, emerging technology could become a huge source of competitive differentiation in field service. By putting the customer first and operationalizing field service strategy, organizations can maximize results.

Join this webinar to:
- Discover why customer demand is driving investments in mobile field service
- Find out the benefits and best practices of automating a field service solution
- Learn how to achieve efficiency gains without sacrificing the customer experience

Presented by Barbara Giamanco, CEO of Social Centered Selling, Christine LaVoi, Field Service Management Client Success Manager, IFS and Sean McDade, CEO of PeopleMetrics.

This webinar is part of our Connected field service webinar series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!

With tools and technologies like UCaaS and remote, mobile devices at our disposal, it's imperative that organizations make collaboration a breeze through the evolution of engaged, effective group work.

With document co-authoring, teams can get more done with fewer barriers—whether they're students, peer groups, parents, or subject matter experts.

Join this webcast to learn how you can:
- Bring everyone to the virtual table
- Save time for collaborators
- Increase engagement within teams
- Enhance your unified communications strategy

This webcast is part of our Microsoft in education virtual productivity webcast series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!

Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done. Today's workers need their projects organized with clarity and transparency

Managing projects and resources is one of the biggest challenges for managers in the fast-paced digital world. However, as more information workers scale across more teams and become more geographically dispersed, it can be difficult to keep things on track.

Join this webcast to:
- Find out how to manage projects more efficiently
- Learn how you can track progress throughout collaborations
- Reduce the time needed to achieve project objectives

If you consider yourself to be an above average Visio user, it’s time to step behind the curtain and learn how to unleash even more of what Visio can do.

In this webcast, you'll learn techniques for creating shapes, masters, stencils, and templates. You’ll learn the difference between editing a master in a stencil and editing a master in the Document Stencil. (For that matter, you’ll learn what the Document Stencil is and where to find it!) You'll also learn to display and use the Developer tab. Finally, you'll learn to unlock the real power of Visio by using the ShapeSheet.

Join this webcast to learn how to:
- Understand shapes, masters, stencils, templates, and the ShapeSheet
- See the functionalities available to you on the Developer tab
- Discover the Visio SDK (software development kit) and other useful websites for developers

Are you compliant with data preservation requirements? Ensure that you're saving information according to your needs. Office 365 U.S. Government is designed for the unique needs of U.S. government organizations. It provides all the features and capabilities of Office 365 services in a segmented cloud community that enables organizations to meet U.S. compliance and security standards.

Organizational effectiveness is defined as the efficiency with which an organization is able to meet its objectives.

What if one of the organization's objectives is to introduce agile project management? What measures will you need to determine the efficiency of your agile tools, process, and people?

Join this webcast to:
- Learn what's important when introducing an agile methodology within the Microsoft PPM environment
- Understand how agile can help increase organizational effectiveness within the PMO
- See how Microsoft Project supports the agile methodology

Software continues to transform the world in remarkable ways and developers are at the center of it. Tune in for this special encore Best of Microsoft Build presentation. We have taken the best rated content, announcements and solutions from our Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, and consolidated them into a one hour webinar.

Agenda:

Key Announcements from Microsoft Build 2017
Key Content from Microsoft Build 2017
Top Rated Demo
Q&A

Are you prepared to handle exponential growth in data volume?

How you access, manage, protect, and utilize your data is the challenge. Gartner reports the data volume is set to grow 800% over the next 5 years.

Nasuni offers a complete Azure-based enterprise file storage system to handle this data volume growth. The IT goal hasn’t changed. How to accomplish it has. The debate is not hardware versus the cloud. It’s how to create an intelligent file infrastructure that utilizes the cloud.

Join this webcast to learn how to:
- Store data centrally in one self-protecting global file system
- Make your data accessible anywhere, anytime
- Scale your storage at unheard-of cost efficiency

Cloud PBX in Office 365 provides the features you need to eliminate traditional PBX systems and the associated costs. It includes common calling features like transfer, hold, and call resume, allowing your assistance to receive calls on your behalf or answer calls for other team members when they're unavailable.

PSTN Calling offers local, long distance, and international calling, so you can reach the people who are important to your business with a choice of calling plans.

Join this webcast to:
- Learn how to protect your privacy and intellectual property with built-in encryption
- Find out about rapid provisioning to get, assign, and use new phone numbers in minutes
- Discover number porting, which allows you to use your existing phone numbers with Microsoft calling plans

This webcast is part of our Complete cloud communications series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!

The average cost of a data breach has risen to $4 million, with costs incurred for litigation, brand or reputation damage, lost sales—and in some cases—complete business closure.*

Your organization can stay ahead of threats with Office 365 Threat Intelligence, which leverages the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph to analyze billions of data points from Microsoft global data centers, Office clients, email, user authentications, signals from our Windows and Azure ecosystems and other incidents that impact the Office 365 ecosystem. It provides information about malware families, including breach information with details down to the actual lines of code that are used for certain types of malware.

Join this webinar to understand how your organization can become more secure through the powerful new features of Office 365 Threat Intelligence, including:

- Interactive and intuitive tools to analyze prevalence and severity of threats in near real-time
- Real-time and customizable threat alert notifications
- Remediation capabilities for suspicious content


* Source: The Ponemon Institute study

Email is still the most commonly used communication tool in the workplace. Outlook is Microsoft's most-used application across mobile and desktop, yet it has many features that users don't always know about or take advantage of.

Join this webcast to:
- Take your Outlook skills to the next level
- Learn our power users' most useful time-saving tricks
- Find out about brand-new innovations to the Outlook experience

Institutions today are faced with the challenge of integrating technology into the classroom while teaching students of all learning styles and abilities—including students with disabilities. The Office 365 suite provides students and educators with tools to adapt course work, problem solve from different perspectives, and create a more equitable space for learning in the era of digital transformation.

Join this webcast to:
- Discover the built-in accessibility functionality of Office 365
- Learn how to accommodate impairments in vision, learning, mobility and dexterity, hearing and deafness, and language
- Empower all your students to achieve more

This webcast is part of our Microsoft in education virtual productivity webcast series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!

Effective coaching can transform sales.

Coaching has become a hot topic in the sales world as more organizations realize that an effective coach can be the most significant factor in a salesperson’s ability to achieve their quota goals.

Sales industry leaders Barbara Giamanco, CEO of Social Centered Selling, Nancy Bleeke, President & Chief Sales Officer, Sales Pro Insider, and Carole Mahoney, Founder & Sales Coach, Unbound Growth, come together to discuss trends, tips and best practices.

Join this webcast to:

- Learn how coaching improves sales results
- Make sure that sales training 'sticks' with a solid coaching program
- Get tips for finding each salesperson’s unique motivation for being successful in sales
- Learn strategies for building goals and plans to move salespeople to greater sales success

What could a hybrid PPM approach do for your organization?

Gartner reports that 75% to 80% of organizations are using some form of agile project management process.

Although agile project management has been around for many years, the way we adapt it has changed significantly, especially as project portfolio management (PPM) practices have evolved.

In today’s businesses, technology plays a crucial role in our success, but technology can also make things more uncertain. This uncertainty has given us the motive to be more flexible and requires a “think on your feet” mentality. For this reason, we've seen a big spike in Agile PPM over the last few years. So how do we continue to deliver stability and efficiency, the result of traditional style PPM, while also giving in to necessary risks that lead to innovation and competitive edge?

It’s simple: accept the value in each method, avoid the inevitable pains that may develop with segregation, and opt for a unified agile and traditional PPM model.

Join this webcast to:

- Understand the evolution of project management
•- Gain an overview of agile project management
- Learn the benefits of hybrid/unified PPM
- Discover hybrid project management tools to support today's PPM

According to Accenture, every high performing supply chain is a digital supply chain.

They go on to say that, “Digital technology is disrupting traditional operations and now every business is a digital business. The impact on supply chain management is particularly great. Businesses cannot unlock the full potential of digital without reinventing their supply chain strategy.”

It's time to learn how to reinvent your organization's supply chain to unlock even more business potential.

Join this webcast to:
- Learn how the modern buyer is causing a transformation of the traditional supply chain
- See how digital technology can drive organizational change
- Understand how disruptive technologies—social media, mobile, cloud and analytics—cause the emergence of a digital supply network
- Appreciate the business advantages of a digital supply chain
- Recognize the difference between an enhanced supply chain verses a re-invented network

This webcast is part of our Microsoft Dynamics 365: Business Applications webcast series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!