Year: 2018

Whether you’re a cloud novice or a cloud expert, you can find the resources and information you need to get the most out of Microsoft Azure with this short introductory video.

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In a recent survey by Sophos, it was found that….

• 90% of small businesses are concerned that their IT security solutions won’t keep up with malware threats
• 92% are worried about the threat of ransomware

And this one really surprised us:

What’s the solution?

Sophos Intercept X and XG Firewall give you proven protection against advanced threats – protection that is straightforward and fast to use.

• Advanced protection including deep learning, exploit prevention and anti-ransomware
• Detect and block hidden risks such as unknown apps, risky users and suspicious payloads
• Stop malware from spreading with automatic isolation and remediation of devices

Spend less time managing your security

Sophos solutions are built from the ground-up to be straightforward and quick to use,
accessed from one central management platform.

• Manage everything in one place
• Intuitive interface that’s quick and easy to use
• Automatic response to threats – average response goes from 2 hours to 8 seconds

What is the industry saying about Intercept X and XG Firewall?

“XG Firewall combines top performance with stunningly good value.” ITPro

“Intercept X stopped every complex, advanced attack we threw at it.” ESG Labs

Find out more

As Sophos Gold Solution Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the full suite of solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

Request your no-obligation 30-day FREE trial via this link or call us on 01274 396 213.

 

An email address with a few letters out of place. An unscrupulous employee. A crafty hacker and a vendor with poor security.

These are just a few of the ways your business’s data might end up in the wrong hands. As employees freely share files across more devices and endpoints than ever before, you need to find a way to stay in control – because shutting down collaboration is not an option. Enter BlackBerry Workspaces.

Part of the BlackBerry Secure solution portfolio, Workspaces is an Enterprise File Sharing and Synchronisation (EFSS) tool that secures your organisation’s valuable content wherever it travels. With Workspaces, all stakeholders can safely and easily access, share, and collaborate on even the most sensitive files, which are never out of your control.  But security is only part of the equation – an EFSS platform is only valuable if it offers both functionality and ease of use.

BlackBerry Workspaces brings the best of both worlds.

Protect your contracts with DocuSign integration

DocuSign integration combines the power of Workspaces with an industry-leading solution for electronic signatures. Where a legally-binding signature is required, businesses can now use an electronic contract which can then be wrapped in Workspaces’ leading Digital Rights Management technology. This is especially valuable for loan or job applications, and for legal and financial transactions.

Take for example a large financial institution with several thousand financial officers in the field. These officers regularly meet with customers such as large construction companies that need financing to start new projects. With Workspaces, they’re now able to handle every single stage of the loan process in the field, shrinking the approval process from days to hours.

Ensure staff read critical documents with read acknowledgement

Workspaces now includes the ability to track read acknowledgement on a per-user basis. You’re now able to determine who among your staff has read a critical document, and who hasn’t. Governments, regulatory organisations, and human resources departments can all utilise this feature to ensure that employees have read and understood official policies, procedures, and releases.

Such a feature could’ve helped Google track and prevent the alleged IP theft it is claiming occurred when one of its star engineers left the company for a self-driving startup that was acquired by Uber.

Major government agencies also use Workspaces to mobilise and securely digitise processes that were once paper-based. In addition to using DocuSign on forms, inspectors can securely upload reports with rich media in real-time. Reports, records, and mandates can be sent out to colleagues and business owners, and the agency is able to track who’s looked at them.

Collaborate closer with inline comments, mentions, and usability enhancements

Lastly, it’s now easier than ever to collaborate with others using Workspaces. Users can now make comments within the Workspaces user interface, which are stored permanently and displayed alongside files. Within these comments, they can use the “@mention” feature to leave a comment for a specific person, alerting them the next time they sign in.

In the ongoing effort to make Workspaces as productive and easy to use as possible, Blackberry have also introduced significant usability enhancements throughout the platform. These include enhancing the look and feel of the secure browser application, the ability to open and save/save as from within Workspaces’ Microsoft Office interface, “What’s New” alerts on the mobile applications, and the ability to send multiple files at once via mobile.

Work better with BlackBerry Workspaces

BlackBerry and Complete IT Systems are dedicated to helping you empower your organisation with new workflows, better connectivity, and greater productivity. BlackBerry Workspaces helps with exactly that.

The collaboration culture that’s taken over successful businesses isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. People are going to continue sharing files across devices, and across endpoints far outside your reach. Workspaces lets you empower them to do so – while always keeping you in control of your most critical files.

Want to find out more? As Blackberry Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business. To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

Check out this short video to see how City & Guilds used Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to build a best practice environment and save over £1million compared to an on-premise infrastructure.

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The Fragrance Shop is a retail business with 185 stores across the UK and an annual turnover of £120 million. It focusses purely on the sale of fragrances and has recently invested in Microsoft Cloud Technologies in order to develop a stronger understanding of its customers and hence provide a more connected experience. It has fully embraced multi-channel experiences, using technology both in store and at its Head Office built on Microsoft Azure.

With Microsoft Azure, The Fragrance Shop is innovating its sales technique, considering ideas such as how to talk with customers before even purchasing a fragrance in store and how to find out if they provided the right experience for the customer after a recent sale. “Customer centricity is a massive part of our business, so the technology we invest in is all about collecting the right data. Joining this all together means creating a seamless experience and a connected customer,” explained Sanjay Vadera, CEO at The Fragrance Shop.

Their CRM team can now engage the customer immediately after a purchase and because they are interacting with customers in real-time, the response rates being achieved are very high. “We gather information in stores, online and through customer service, which all feeds into Microsoft Azure. With the right computing power, we can now get the results that we want in the timescales we need,” commented Julian Holt, Chief Technical Officer at The Fragrance Shop.

All stores now collect live data, such as how many customers enter and walk past the store, sale frequencies and conversion by the minute. This data transforms the information staff have access to, the roles they perform within the business and hence the way the business functions as a whole. Julian Holt stated, “We are now able to give the responsibility of certain IT elements to Microsoft like security, high availability and scalability, meaning my IT department can focus more on business strategy and less on dealing with IT issues.”

The Fragrance Shop is excited about what the future holds with the help of Microsoft Azure. Sanjay Vadera sums up by saying, “We’re in the right position and we’ve got the right partners in place… now we’re thinking about how we can take this to the next level.” Check this short video to see more.

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By 2020, the amount of high value data will double. Make sure your business is able to capitalise on this phenomena.

Today, there’s a big shift toward a more technology-driven society in the modern IT world. More and more businesses are adopting a cloud-first procurement strategy, using web and social capabilities to reach customers, gather market and business intelligence, and engage employees. With Microsoft Azure, you can save time, money, and effort with Azure Web, Mobile, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence solutions.

In fact, sourced from a study in the Modern Microsoft Partner Series, by 2020, the amount of high-value data will double. Data Architecture Manager Stephanie Bruno, who works with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, states, “…. the data is the most important thing we have. Using Microsoft BI and analytics tools helps us make better decisions and save more children’s lives.”

Other firms also leverage data through Power BI to increase revenue, while reducing costs to develop new products. Vice President and CIO Steven Hanna states, “We can also leverage intellectual property that used to be spread out in notebooks or in people’s heads. And if we can leverage that, and get to market 20 percent faster, that’s a pretty great competitive advantage.”

Get started today on how to do epic stuff with customer data and app solutions with Azure. Here are a few easy ways to get started …

• Mobile—Help your customers easily access valuable data on any device at any time. Create native cross-platform mobile apps, using one platform, IDE, and language for all app types. Embed fully interactive and up-to-date visual analytics directly in your apps with ease—without the time and expense of writing code.
• Web—No matter what you sell, you need secure and scalable e-commerce solutions that meet the demands of both your customers and business. Leverage your data and drive customer engagement through customised products and offers, process transactions quickly and securely, and focus on fulfilment and customer service.
• Data Analytics—Deliver better experiences and make better decisions by analyzing massive amounts of data in real time. Get the insight you need to deliver intelligent actions that improve customer engagement, increase revenue, and lower costs.
• Business Intelligence—Transform your company’s data to support informed decision making. Gain deeper insight into your data to stay up to date and spot trends as they happen. With modern business intelligence (BI) solutions and tools, your entire organisation can understand and quickly act on data.

Check out this short video to find out more about Microsoft Azure and how it can help your business.

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Whether you’re on the road or in an office, you need workspaces that simplify collaboration with local and remote colleagues. And, it wouldn’t hurt to have a fun, engaging experience with real-time interaction.

Today’s decision makers are choosing Microsoft 365, a solution purpose-built for creativity, with all the tools people need for secure collaboration. Integrating Windows 10, Office 365, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, Microsoft 365 has everything you need for a modern workspace.

Microsoft 365 and Office 365 bring a complete cloud productivity service to the enterprise. Capabilities include authoring mail and social, site and content management, meeting and voice capabilities, and analytics. You can:

• Improve productivity
• Enhance teamwork
• Gain new insights
• Get more control over data security and compliance

Want to find out more?

As Microsoft Gold Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

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Mobile users only have a few things they need to do with their files, but if they can’t do them easily with solutions provided by their IT departments, they will go to apps stores to find a work-around. This poses a real headache for IT, but with an integrated solution it’s possible to provide everything they need in one place managed by your security parameters for: Viewing files Searching Annotating Editing Sharing We’ve put together a whitepaper outlining how you can provide the top 6 tools mobile users need, securely. You can also request a demo of Blackberry Workstations’ solutions by clicking the button below.How to easily and securely avoid “user initiative” with apps Want to find out more? As Blackberry Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business. To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

Data is the lifeblood of any organisation, and if it is lost due to theft or carelessness it can cause great harm to revenue and reputation.

With endpoints the most vulnerable source of data loss, anti-virus and firewalls not sufficient to protect data on their own, and a myriad of options out there, what solutions can your business take to address this problem?

EgoSecure does more than just blindly “protecting your data”. Firstly, the unique solution allows you to understand your organisation’s particular data security situation, and the specifically protect it from the risks that are genuinely relevant. The approach is simple:

Insight

EgoSecure’s Insight module collects facts about the data security of your network and displays them in easy-to-understand graphs and detailed tables tailored for both management and administrators.

The module provides the foundation so that protective measures do not have to be set up blindly. First, the facts are used to diagnose the requirements for the initial installation of protective measures, and from then on they are used to constantly monitor any changes to your organisation’s protection requirements over time.

IntellAct

The new IntellAct module uses the facts gathered from the Insight module and automatically activates protective measures based on pre-defined rules. In addition, it can make comparisons with established benchmarks, automatically detecting anomalies and critical situations so that an appropriate response is triggered to protect your organisation’s data. This automated process greatly reduces the workload of administrators, and minimises reaction times considerably.

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