The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group partnered with Vida Homeloans to help the United Kingdom mortgage lender implement the Cloud Adoption Framework and transition to Azure. We worked with Vida Homeloans to lead the Azure transition, which would allow them to manage their public cloud transformation with a longer and more deliberate view. In the United … Read more
Part I Part II: The Magical Land of ADKAR (Prosci) Part III: Reinforcing Change Efficiently and Building Proficiency In my blog series so far, I have discussed getting maximum adoption of Teams in 90 days. Now, suddenly, 90 days sounds like an eternity when life throws you a curve ball. You need to enable your workforce to adopt remote work on Teams as soon as possible. This does not mean we don’t … Read more
Perhaps the biggest single change to businesses brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is the shift from employees working in offices to working from home. This move has continued to redefine how we work our daily jobs and how we optimize digital operations. One of the most significant changes is the fact that face-to-face meetings have been largely replaced by remote video conferencing and phone calls. Though the environments in which we … Read more
I am sure that at this point you are wondering how long it took us to get here. Where are we in our 90 days’ timeline for adoption? Well, this is a tricky answer. If you had a good grasp on your strategy and were able to articulate value scenarios, recruit your Champions and Executive … Read more
The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (Cognizant MBG) was excited to partner with global engineering firm Gannett Fleming to fully realize their company’s Teams capabilities. We worked with Gannett Fleming to further Teams adoption and enhance their global collaboration strategy. The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group helped their employees understand the great value and resources available through … Read more
ADKAR– one of the most-used words when it comes to change. So, what is ADKAR? ADKAR is a model for change in business, government, and community developed in 2003 by Jeff Hiatt. ADKAR stands for Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement. In order to implement change, every person that’s influenced by the change needs to … Read more
Dynamics 365 CE has been innovating its capabilities at an outstanding pace over the past few years, and Microsoft has created an ecosystem that helps organizations make smarter decisions and take actions that drive their businesses to new heights. The Power Platform allows these organizations to extend and enrich the functionality of the Dynamics 365 … Read more
With Microsoft Azure growing rapidly in the cloud market, more organizations are exploring how Azure supports Continuous Testing and Automation. In collaboration with Microsoft, Cognizant’s Quality Engineering and Assurance practice along with the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group, are hosting an Experience Lab on Continuous Testing with Azure. What is in it for you? Led by … Read more
Power Virtual Agents is a core component of Microsoft’s Power Platform. Microsoft’s Power Platform provides world-class no-code, low-code development capabilities for desktop and mobile applications for a fraction of the cost of traditional development. Power Virtual Agents provides the ability to quickly create sophisticated, AI-powered chatbots that can resolve common issues and answer questions around … Read more
You want to create an Internet of Things (IoT) project from scratch, or add some IoT to an existing project, but don’t know how to solder anything or write embedded code? Come join the UK DevOps Collective and special guest Christopher Maneu for this introductory session about IoT solutions. Discover how to get started creating … Read more
Drive Organizational Productivity with Power Virtual Agents On Thursday, January 28 at 10am EST, the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group is hosting a free webinar to discover how you can easily build chatbots to engage conversationally with your customers and employees—no coding required. Power Virtual Agents is a core component of Microsoft’s Power Platform. Microsoft’s Power Platform … Read more
Power Virtual Agents (PVA) is a new technology from Microsoft that empowers anyone in your business to build versatile, adaptable chatbots, with no coding or AI expertise required. Power Virtual Agents can help with everything from HR to sales, on many of your existing sites, team channels, Microsoft Power Apps and more. What is PVA? … Read more
It’s all about labels these days – AI, Containers, DevSecOps. Many people claim to “do it,” very few actually do. Take DevSecOps: on face value it’s about adding Security practices to DevOps. But how do you measure the value derived from it? And also – how do you make sure you are not disrupting your … Read more
In the last few years Microsoft have changed the game in office app development by enabling the citizen developer to create rich, powerful apps. Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI are designed to work together so everyone across the business can quickly become a maker. In this session, we walk through the process of … Read more
One of the biggest challenges we face talking to customers about our platform native story is helping them to understand what an important and fundamental decision it is. Our thesis is that the compatibility across the stack is fundamentally more important than the individual, specific, capabilities of any of the pieces. A very interesting analogy … Read more
SharePoint Online has a lot of web parts. The list of web parts keeps growing every day. One of the most powerful and adaptable web parts is the highlighted content web part. This web part has a multitude of configurations and is extremely adaptable. In a previous post, we talked about site columns vs. … Read more
Microsoft 365 Defender brings together Microsoft’s threat protection stack with Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Cloud App Security. Come join this session where Steve Newby and Milad Aslaner from the Microsoft 365 Defender team at Microsoft will walk you through what’s new with this solution … Read more
On Tuesday, December 15 at 10:00am EST, join New Signature’s App Modernization expert Alan Blythe for a free webinar on improving the resiliency, efficiency, and security of your applications in Azure. This event will run for one hour. To truly graduate into becoming a digital business, your business needs to become a software business. New … Read more
Senior Platform Engineer Osman Sahin shows the deployment of K8s into the three clouds – Azure, AWS and GCP using Terraform plugins via Azure DevOps pipelines. Osman Sahin has been working in the IT more than 20 years of experience and for the past 7 years in Clouds extensively on Azure, and a bit GCP, … Read more
One of the foundational components of SharePoint is the ability to add metadata to documents, pages, and list items. Metadata is additional descriptions that help explain the “thing” we have selected. That thing may be a document, a list of items, a news post or a host of other items that can be stored in … Read more
Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) is the latest offering from Microsoft Networking stack. Since inception, it has been considered a silver bullet that can pacify most of the notorious networking monsters. In this session, New Signature will play devil’s advocate and try to debunk – what makes VWAN such a lucrative option for stakeholders? What are … Read more
Earlier this year, New Signature provided a run down of the PowerApp experience and the return to work featuring our Solutions expert Peter Bertell. All employers need to consider how best to decrease the spread of COVID-19 and lower the impact in your workplace. This should include activities to: Prevent and reduce transmission among employees … Read more
Microsoft’s integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software, Dynamics 365, is crucial for the healthcare field. When patient health and employee efficiency are at the heart of your organization, you want the best on your side. New Signature shows you how to improve quality of care, office productivity, operational outcomes and more with Dynamics. Integration, cross-functional … Read more
Buy or sell: Retail needs customer relationship management (CRM) to thrive in the modern day landscape. Buy, absolutely – CRM’s positive impact means this should not even be a question. We show you how CRM elevates the retail experience by enabling the customer journey, better managing products, and streamlining workflow. Upleveling your brand, creating omnichannel … Read more
The future of retail is here. With its application innovations, data services, and virtual desktop infrastructures, Azure can help you thrive in this new retail reality. As New Signature spearheads the creation of Cognizant’s Microsoft Business Group, we brought on 10th Magnitude, a leading cloud specialist focused exclusively on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. … Read more
As a long-time developer and architect, security is important in everything I do. Having clean code and up-to-date libraries helps, but there are new vulnerabilities every day. One of the main concepts of DevOps is shifting left on things like testing and security. Shifting left means doing things as early in the process as possible … Read more
Legal technology is the future and we’re making the case for law firm use of Dynamics 365. Microsoft’s user-friendly, innovative Dynamics 365 software helps law firms integrate their day-to-day while emphasizing the client intake pipeline. An easier workday is possible with Dynamic 365’s better client services, better digital communications, and better experience management. Microsoft Dynamics … Read more
In Dynamics 365, we have two types of interfaces: Web and Unified Interface. The Web User Interface is the legacy interface which Dynamics users have been accustomed to for a long time. The new Unified Interface was introduced by Microsoft in Dynamics 365 v9.0. In this blog we will explain the unified interface, how does … Read more
In our recent webinar “Controlling Your Azure Environment: Governance for the Modern Enterprise” we touched on the five disciplines of cloud governance from Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework. This blog post is the third in the “The Five Disciplines of Cloud Governance” five-part series expanding on those concepts. If you missed the first post in the series around … Read more
Yammer is an enterprise social network application, designed to support open communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing across the entire organization. For many, this is a major change to their normal way of working and, in many companies, a major shift in culture. As with any change process, there will be early adopters who readily embrace the idea of new ways of … Read more
Strategic Information Networking Conferences (SINC) creates intimate B2B gatherings and experiences for industry technology executives looking to expand their education, peer connections, and knowledge of enterprise technologies. It promises executive events that exceed expectations. SINC prides itself on being a partner to technology leaders across all industries and verticals. For senior IT and Security executives, … Read more
New Signature is hosting a free webinar to unlock valuable insights available through the Microsoft Customer Insights platform. Join us for a free virtual education session to learn about: Customer Insights uses Data ingestion sources and patterns Microsoft Common Data Services Integrations with the Power Platform Customer Insights is an intuitive and flexible customer data … Read more
Moving to the cloud and a mobile workforce means your data, users, and systems are everywhere. Meanwhile, the frequency and sophistication of attacks are ever growing. With more and more people working from home, the increased security risk has risen significantly. Azure Sentinel enables you to collect data, detect threats, investigate incidents and alerts, and … Read more
The holidays will soon be upon us and one of my primary jobs when visiting my family is to help my parents and siblings with their computer problems. This has been our family tradition for over two decades. My family saves up a list of problems all year long and while football is on TV and the food cooks, my office hours start. That was the norm until this year. The current state of the world has thrown a wrench … Read more
IT security is an ever-growing concern for organizations around the globe. We are more deeply connected to technology than we ever have been before. This really works in our favor when it comes to productivity in business and creativity. Unfortunately, this also creates a perfect breeding ground for hackers to design malicious threats by using … Read more
This month, the Office Explorers podcast does a high-level review of some of the new features announced at Ignite (don’t forget to check out the 2020 Book of News!). Joining Kat and Rob is Modern Workplace expert Shefali Kalia, who gives us some overviews of the three main pillars of Power Platform – Power Automate, … Read more
When you start a race, you are probably already thinking about the finish line and what you have to do to accomplish what you want. You are thinking about why you signed up and what completing the race means to you. The same should be true for business. We are in a society now where we are … Read more
It’s been a long time coming. As I’ve noted before, Microsoft is in the midst of a multi-year campaign to reduce the number of sub-brands associated with the organization so that customers, partners and even Microsoft itself have an easier way to understand their products. In the past, it appeared as if “Azure” was sprinkled … Read more
The British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Collaborative (BHFCRC) launched in June 2019. The collaborative aims to support the planning and delivery of clinical research in heart and circulatory diseases in the UK, providing the infrastructure to facilitate, enhance and coordinate the research planning of existing cardiovascular and surgical societies. The initiative is funded through a generous program … Read more
This year, many organizations have changed the way work gets done. Whether you call it remote work or work-from-anywhere or work from home, it is here to stay. With multiple major companies announcing that their employees can work from home until 2021, employees are now expressing a desire to work at-least partly remote in a … Read more
With varying work styles and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) culture on the rise, organizations have concerns on how they can secure their sensitive data from malicious intent. Security is an integral aspect of any architecture. Data breaches can be significantly costly, ruin company’s reputation, result in a job loses and have a long-term effect on consumer trust. … Read more
Ready to accelerate your cloud adoption journey? Watch below from our Azure expert Esteban Garcia, SVP Azure & DevOps, as he explains how to successfully migrate to Microsoft’s cloud using New Signature’s NS:GO Digital Operating Model. He also discusses the impact of factors like assets, regulations, funding, and more on establishing your adoption timelines. We’ve … Read more
If you missed New Signature’s “How to Transform with DevOps” webinar, don’t’ worry; we are committed to learning and growth for our communities and archive all our learning opportunities on our Vimeo page and our website. During this engagement, Microsoft Business group DevOps expert, Chris Ayers, leads you through the basics of DevOps and how … Read more
Managing the security and audit records for who is accessing and modifying resources inside Azure DevOps has historically presented a challenge. In the era of modern development, developers are working on multiple devices, with devices roaming from both the corporate office and the home office. Based on this new paradigm, organizations in regulated fields are … Read more
As many organizations progress down their digital transformation journey, they traditionally start with low-hanging fruit, and then move to increasingly complex functionality. Naturally, this then tends to lead to automation of tasks that require both minimal human interaction (e.g. a transition from analog calendars to digital calendars, and then to AI-based tools such as Scheduler) … Read more
Recently, I worked on a few Azure Landing Zone projects to kick-off clients’ journeys to the cloud. Networking was a major part of these projects, along with security and monitoring. Below, I go through Azure networking resources and the important features. Sample Architecture Diagram Virtual Network (VNet) Virtual Network (VNet) is a basic networking building block in Azure; … Read more
A global manufacturer of personal healthcare products and consumer goods, family-owned PZ Cussons, represents a dynamic group of extraordinary brands. Over its 135-year history, PZ Cussons has successfully adapted and evolved to constantly changing consumer, market, and economic environments. It has an unrivalled heritage and entrepreneurial culture, robustly supported by its CANDO! (Courage, Accountability, Networking, Drive, Oneness) … Read more
Azure Key Vault is a great resource to keep your secrets out of your repos and to follow the least-privilege methodology. One of the ways to leverage Key Vault through Azure DevOps is to use the “Replace Token” extension that replaces your specified token with the secrets from the Key Vault during the build process. … Read more
We have been assisting a customer with their move from on-premises Exchange Server 2013 (CU23) to Exchange Online. After running the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, federation testing unveiled a pre-existing condition with Autodiscover which resulted in the hybrid wizard not creating the Federation Trust or Organization Relationships properly. There are some highly relevant articles explaining the … Read more
As leaders in the DevOps space, New Signature experts will be participating in the upcoming Microsoft Remote Engineering DevOps Summit. This virtual event will be held September 9 and 10, 2020, and is aimed at supporting developers during a time when many are working remotely. Join this two-day virtual event and live Q&A consisting of a two-hour Microsoft-guided session each … Read more
A company’s journey to the cloud typically starts by focusing on migration and modernization. By following the guidance provided by the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, you can design and implement an effective strategy for your move to Azure. The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) includes several phases that align to where your team or your … Read more
In all of my Azure deployment for clients, networking plays a key role of cloud architecture integration with on-premises networks. Often, companies have headquarters and offices around the world and need to access resources hosted on Azure. The hub-and-spoke model allows for growth, flexibility, planning and designing virtual networks in Azure. The hub acts as … Read more
Here at New Signature, we often use the phrase, “drinking our own champagne!” to refer to our practice of deploying early code from Microsoft in our production environment before we do so with a customer. By contrast, at many firms, especially technology firms, one often hears a different refrain of “drinking the Kool-Aid” when it … Read more
These days many project managers are interested in – and frequently being actively asked – to move to agile environments. The difficult thing about this is that the Project Manager (PM) just doesn’t have a clean parallel in small agile teams. The good news is that the PM skill set and competencies are very useful … Read more
One of the benefits of regularly designing software systems here at New Signature is having the first-hand experience of what works and what doesn’t across a vast spectrum of technologies. With every project in which we engage, our knowledge and insights gained from previous experiences allow us to deliver solutions that not only make technological … Read more
As companies across the nation are slowly starting to reopen, all employers need to consider how to maintain healthy environments and lower the impact in your workplace. This should include activities to enhance readiness, maintain healthy business operations, and support a healthy work environment. Technology is not a silver bullet when it comes to reopening … Read more
My first job out of college was in December of 1999. It was a small IT firm offering dial-up internet and web pages to small companies and individuals. At that time, websites were little more than the equivalent of marketing tri-fold brochures. Design, development, and modifications happened on the server, in production. It was a … Read more
Early on in my career, when I was a SharePoint administrator, I was introduced to the industry’s use of the work “evangelist”. It was particularly relevant to SharePoint because it is a sort of technology Swiss army knife. Initially, my experience with evangelism was as someone being preached to, but as I read blogs and … Read more
A few weeks ago– and related to a talk I was planning– I put a survey out regarding what is most important in making somewhere “a great place to work” (GPTW, for brevity). I had about 100 responses, and the results were really interesting to me. I believe they are worthy of sharing! I wanted … Read more
Every acquisition will bring its unique business, operational and cultural challenges. Faced with such challenges, realizing anticipated synergies in a timely manner is often elusive. There are many technology considerations when beginning to move forward with a merger or acquisition, and it’s important to strategize from the start, rather than attempt to course correct partway through the endeavor. Our … Read more
I was recently involved with setting up a website for a not-for-profit. It’s not often I get hands on keyboards these days, so it’s been fun playing with some of the latest Azure features. The set-up was pretty simple – a WordPress website running on App Service, with Azure Front Door sat in front of … Read more
Creating a work environment that allows for your employees to function seamlessly both at the office, at home and on the go is something that is becoming more and more necessary in our modern and progressive society. Research has shown that remote work can provide ample business benefits, including: Better work-life balance Increased productivity Less sick days … Read more
I was recently involved in a mid-scale deployment for a customer, who unfortunately didn’t have Azure DevOps. They already had their own ARM Templates and they wanted their 2nd/3rd Line infrastructure team to be able to deploy their infrastructure in one go and with little effort to different environments instead of individually, without using linked templates … Read more
In Part 1 of my previous blog post, I demonstrated how to enable USB Logging to Collect the Data from a USB Device that has been inserted into a demo machine. I will now run through the same process, but using a malicious USB device which, when plugged in, executes a PowerShell script to download a file … Read more
Hackers will use any method to gain access to a system, even if this means dropping a USB stick on the floor. Now I know what you’re thinki; there’s no way someone would plug in a USB stick they “found” into their computer, but unfortunately they do. A couple of years ago there was a … Read more
Transitioning from a 3rd party messaging platform towards the Exchange Online service offering in Office 365 can be a challenging task especially at the enterprise scale. Even though the Cloud has driven innovation when it comes to tools that enable feature rich coexistence and migration of disparate technologies, solution design and integration are still key … Read more
New Signature has continued to revolutionize the way that businesses approach their cloud journey. By focusing on developing a digital operating model, we can help you move forward from a piecemeal method of adopting cloud technologies and embrace transformation boldly with NS:GO, our exclusive digital operating model. NS:GO will help you: Remove siloes Create harmony … Read more
For decades, the consulting industry has bred an army of road warriors with hefty travel expenses. New Signature’s 20% onsite delivery model is leading the industry to a far more sustainable balance, both for those looking to make a career of consulting and for the clients who are footing the bills. Career Chapter 1: Achieving … Read more
Yes, as more and more companies embrace Continuous Deployment, feature flag platforms are becoming much more popular. I love feature flags; they are some of the coolest and most demonstrable aspects of DevOps. With all the noise, it can be overwhelming picking the appropriate solution. In some cases, if you have a very simple app … Read more
Long story short: the Hawaii emergency agency password was written on a Post-it note and made it onto a photo that went viral on the Internet. Not the kind of notoriety any of us are hoping for. But we witness this type of risky behavior daily across many teams and organizations – passwords on Post-it … Read more
Recently we began working with a client on their transition from an on-premises Exchange 2010 deployment towards Exchange Online using the Hybrid migration method. During the discovery phase of an engagement, we generate a point in time Mailbox Report that provides statistics on, among other things – the size and item count for each Primary … Read more
Microsoft Teams has become the most–sold Microsoft product of all time. Teamwork can move things forward and bring opportunities and successes that no one person can achieve alone. Teams brings five key attributes into your teamwork to achieve success: shared purpose, collective identity, self-awareness and inclusion, trust and vulnerability and constructive tension. Implementing Teams can pay off … Read more
*This piece was co-authored by New Signature’s Joe Cirillo and Don Young. Recently we were asked by a customer, who is operating in an Exchange Hybrid configuration, to develop a solution for converting their on-premises Distribution Lists (DLs) to Office 365 Groups. Although it sounds simple, the challenge is that the customer is using the … Read more
Azure DevOps, and TFS/VSTS before it, has always had an interesting problem with Team Projects. The recommended architecture by most in the field and Microsoft itself is a single Team Project for all of your work. However, in my experience many users are given an Azure DevOps organization and told to start developing and the first thing … Read more
This past Christmas, my wife Sarah was kind enough to buy me what my heart truly desires – more tools. In this case, it was 20V DeWalt tools, including a drill and driver set. Of course I was delighted, but then, I saw which drill it was and my heart sank. I had the very … Read more
I may work for a global organization, but I still live in rural Central Pennsylvania, working from my home office. Not long ago, I was at a school function, where I was curiously asked by one of these neighbors what type of company I work for. “I work for New Signature. We are an official Microsoft partner that … Read more
DevOps is a journey. While many people focus purely on releasing more frequently or adopting new tools, often the more important part of the process is the culture shift required to truly embrace DevOps principles. In my experience, Quality Assurance (QA) teams can be resistant to these changes. While it may require a change in … Read more
A few months after I started at New Signature, I was approached by a colleague who graduated from the same women’s college as I had an idea— she wanted to form the company’s first employee resource group, a group dedicated to gender equality, diversity and inclusion. We got together a few times (remotely via Teams, since we both work from home) and started chatting about what this group would look … Read more
Azure DevOps is a powerful tool for any organization, especially one dedicated to a robust CI/CD pipleline. Getting a working pipeline for a repository can take only a few minutes, especially if using a tried and true template. But what if instead of 5 or 10 pipelines, you want to set up a thousand? I … Read more
Do you have a TFS upgrade on your priority list for 2019? Are you missing out on some of the latest features that TFS has to offer? Do you have a desire to be on one tool that could be used by Dev’s, QA, PM’s, PO’s, BA’s and/or stakeholders? Keep reading to find out why … Read more
This piece was contributed by BitTitan’s Grady Gausman. In July 2019, BitTitan introduced new features to its flagship cloud office migration solution, MigrationWiz, to support the transition of a Microsoft Teams instance between Office 365 tenants. While months of scoping, engineering, and testing went into the development of this new migration scenario, BitTitan reached out … Read more
Agility and control. Diametrically opposing forces present in almost every organisation in the world. Business leaders keen to innovate and disrupt the markets they operate in. Technical and IT leaders worried about security, governance, and availability. Both valid behaviours and concerns. Both totally incompatible with one another. Until now. Ever since the first commercial emergence … Read more
Every year, SecTor features Keynotes from the IT industry’s most respected and trusted experts. Speakers are true security professionals with depth of understanding on topics that matter. SecTor is Canada’s premier IT Security Education Conference and is where IT Security professionals gather to learn from and network with the world’s most innovative, intellectual, exciting and entertaining security professionals. SecTor is … Read more
As organizations accelerate their move to the cloud by eliminating costly hardware in their on-premises datacenters by saving costs and improving agility in the cloud. It brings the challenge of managing costs and optimizing their cloud spend. Enterprises who use public cloud often feel their cloud bills are spiraling out of control. Research has shown … Read more
In development, we all can agree that the user is most important. And what do users love? Features. It’s reasonable to assume that each of your users will want a new and unique feature at least a few times per year. Product owners guessing at what these features could be can cause backlogs to fill … Read more
Identity is hard. Between passwords, user personal information in profiles, hackers trying to brute force your login pages, managing multi-factor authentication providers, and make sure your login system is secure so you don’t have a security event that doesn’t seem to leave a lot of time for you to work on the real value your … Read more
Over the past year, my life has been a bit of a roller coaster. In the fall, I found out I was having a new baby. Then in the winter, we found out that baby had Down syndrome. In the spring, she was born 2 months early at a mere 2 pounds wearing a diaper … Read more
Occasionally during mailbox migrations or via normal client-side troubleshooting, a user’s Outlook client will lose the type ahead cache (autocomplete). While there have been different variations of this problem over the years and over the different versions of Outlook, the result is the same for the user: Panic! Make no mistake, in some cases, there’s … Read more
One of my favorite things about what we do here at New Signature is seeing companies experience a cultural shift as part of their DevOps journeys. A lot of our tasking can be tactical in nature, adding CI/CD pipelines, automating a test, migrating certain data, etc, but then seeing the ripple effects that those changes … Read more
Implementing a CI/CD pipeline can be intimidating if you are used to a manual release process. I have heard the concern that tools like Azure DevOps are not flexible enough for more complex build procedures. Even the term pipeline certainly suggests moving in a straight line through your process, which doesn’t seem very adaptable. However, … Read more
Over the last few years security breaches have cemented a place in the daily news. It is no wonder that security along with digital transformation has become the manifesto for thriving in the digital age for organizations of all sizes. Organizations are assuming a breach position and embracing zero-trust policies to combat security threats. With … Read more
Misconception: “My company isn’t a software company. We just write software to support the business, so we don’t care about going faster.” While your company might not be a software company — or a company that sells software in its product line, you can still largely benefit from DevOps. DevOps is all about efficiency in … Read more
New Signature is committed to investing in not only the technologies that we deliver, but also the people who deliver them. Recently, our People Team participated in the Microsoft ProSci Change Management Certification Program, which can help our clients realize huge improvements in their business operations and success as they adopt and leverage Microsoft technologies. … Read more
Microsoft Teams and the principles of DevOps go together like toast and jam. But have you ever considered what makes them such a good match? First, what do we mean by DevOps? Not to be confused with the tool “Azure DevOps,” DevOps is defined as “a set of software development practices that combines software development … Read more
If you’ve heard that blockchain is the backbone of Bitcoin and want more information about how it relates to the world of business, then “Blockchain for Business 2019” by Peter Lipovyanow is worth the price tag. For those who are already familiar with technology concepts such as public-private key cryptography, the book will likely be … Read more
Over the past several years, having attended a large number of conferences, I’ve noticed a significant change in how information is shared with attendees, and how folks can learn the most effectively. Think back to even ten years ago: most conferences were attended by folks who wanted to gain new information, and were willing to … Read more
It happens so often we’re almost immune to the “news” that a new device is going to change our lives forever. Yet looking back over the past fifty years, there have only been a handful of devices that have altered the way we work and live: the personal desktop computer, portable laptops, cellular phones and now today’s … Read more
Whether you are going through a merger, acquisition, divestiture, or just want to change your root SharePoint URL to match a new company name, there are an increasing number of reasons why a company would want to undergo an Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration. In short, a tenant-to-tenant, or T2T, migration takes some or all Office … Read more
Every Microsoft product has a life cycle, and when that product reaches a certain age and has been superseded by newer versions, that product reaches an end of support situation. Currently, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 is nearing its end-of-support. Our new guide, Windows Server and SQL 2008 End of Support Guide, will help your team understand the … Read more
MarketAxess is a technology-based international electronic trading platform with the DNA of a startup, but the maturity of a company that’s a change accelerator. To support MarketAxess’ growth and to retain and attract top talent, the company made steps toward several key investments, including developing a stronger company culture across all its international locations. MarketAxess chose New Signature … Read more
