Champagne or Kool-Aid: Which Are You drinking? A Tale of Two Metaphors, and Microsoft Using Our Own Software First Here at New Signature, we often say we are “drinking our own champagne!” (the exclamation point included, of course) to refer to our practice of deploying early code from Microsoft in our production environment before we do so at a customer. By contrast at many firms, especially technology firms, one often … Read more
Collaboration Portals in Office 365 Too many choices. It is great to have choices. But having too many can become overwhelming. We’ve all been at the grocery store and had the same thought; seriously, how many different types of peanut butter does one really need? Office 365 has entered this world… not the world of peanut butter, but the world of … Read more
New Signature issues white paper – “Tackling Security in the World of the Cloud” Executive Vice-President of Products Brian Bourne worked with Microsoft to put forth a white paper around cloud security, released this month, and you can have access to the full white paper by registering here. In the paper, Bourne discusses cloud structure options, potential security concerns when functioning in the Cloud, along with security responsibilities for … Read more
New Signature’s AppFactory Paves the Way for 2017 Cloud Readiness Focus Cloud adoption has been a top infrastructure trend in 2016 and will continue to be throughout the coming 2017 year, as companies are realizing the added value and efficiency that a cloud environment delivers. The top reasons, according to a recent report by Gartner, is that companies are investing in and implementing cloud solutions to take advantage of IT modernization, cost savings, innovation, and agility, among other benefits. But, as … Read more
Azure AD Seamless Sign On Announced Microsoft recently announced Seamless Sign On with Azure AD for Password Sync or Pass Through Authentication (PTA) organizations. SSO allows users on domain-joined computers which can contact a domain controller to authenticate with Azure AD via ADAL without typing in their password. The end user experience is very similar to that of an organization that … Read more
New Signature Achieves Gold Competency Level in Data Analytics In 2016, the New Signature Advanced Analytics team reached both Silver, and now Gold Competency status through Microsoft, reinforcing New Signature’s ability in developing transformative IoT (Internet of Things) and analytics solutions for businesses of all sizes and across all fields. This gold-level competency is New Signature’s 20+ competencies across the Microsoft technologies and services. … Read more
New Microsoft EA Pricing The New Signature Cloud Management Portal (CMP) for Microsoft Azure (https://portal.newsignature.com/) provides financial governance and VM performance/cost optimization for enterprises with a Microsoft Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA). We have a number of enterprises actively using our CMP. Some of these customers have entered into a new EA after their EA had expired. For new EAs … Read more
New Signature Builds the Best Unified Communications for Davis Construction New Signature has the ability to assist customers from all sizes and fields of business. When Davis Construction was looking for a Microsoft partner to consolidate and improve their communications structure, New Signature was their top choice to help their dispersed locations migrate to a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone system. With permanent and … Read more
The Evolution of Portals Portals. No one knows what they are, but everyone knows they need one. At very high level a portal is simply a web site that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way. In a corporate setting this gets modified to a web site that brings together all the information you need to … Read more
Searching for the Master Algorithm Knowledge is power. It may sound trite, but humanity has come to dominate the world using this tool alone. Humans lack natural weapons, have no natural protection from the elements, and enter life as helpless infants. But our unique brains allow us to acquire, use, and communicate knowledge, and this advantage alone has allowed us … Read more