On Wednesday last week, I joined a few thousand other real people attending Microsoft’s AI Tour as it passed through Sydney. We have not seen a big Microsoft event like this here for some time and on the morning of the event, the badge pickup queue spanned multiple floors and we all had to remember[…]

“We believe in a future where there will be a Copilot for everyone and everything you do.” – Satya Nadella The curtains have drawn on Microsoft’s largest annual conference, Ignite 2023. Under the visionary leadership of Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Ignite wasn’t just a showcase of new products; it was a manifesto for a[…]

The rise of generative AI has been meteoric with the launch of new technology like ChatGPT making waves across industries. It’s estimated that at its current level of capability, generative AI has the potential to automate or augment 44% of tasks on average. With Microsoft’s own proprietary AI technology, Copilot, soon to be launched, we[…]

The average employee uses 10 different apps to complete their tasks every day and the more apps they use, the longer they spend feeling distracted or procrastinating1. That lost productivity can add up: an enterprise with 2,500 employees could lose 325,000 hours of productivity annually2. Not to mention the fact that we are all paying[…]

We can all host a decent video call, share our screens or co-edit documents in our sleep. But the Microsoft hybrid work toolkit includes so much more and if you’re not leveraging the latest productivity-boosting additions, you’re missing out!  Here’s a few exciting additions to your Microsoft 365 arsenal both available now and coming soon.  […]

Each year, the Microsoft Ignite conference delivers a blend of innovation, inspiration and expert how-to’s. It’s the chance to peek behind the curtain to see what the wizards of Microsoft have been working on and this year did not disappoint. One overall theme was bringing people, information and tasks into “the flow of work”. Wherever[…]

Now Ignite 2021 is over we can take stock of the many announcements and what they mean for our business and clients. Here are our top picks, those relevant to the Digital Workplace, and what we think they will mean for organisations and individual users. Teams seemed to be the winner again this year, which[…]