Hrvoje Kusulja, 3 PRO’s Chief Operating Officer, became a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office 365. It is an award for prominent, independent community leaders who share their technical expertise related to Microsoft, and it is given for contributions over the previous year – especially for sharing knowledge within the technical community that utilizes Microsoft technologies.
Last week Microsoft rebranded Lync into Skype for Business. It was announced that Video Conferencing Solutions – Skype Rooms – will be provided by Polycom. The new series of video collaboration solutions is called Polycom RoundTable®; an affordable and easy-to-use video solution for small and midsized businesses and teams, including voice, video and content collaboration.
Skype for Business will be fully functional in the Cloud. Microsoft is partnering with big telecommunications companies in order to make this possible. Their plan is to integrate Enterprise Voice into Office 365, so that Customers will be able to call people on any phone.
Skype for Business is coming in April and it will be available to Office 365 customers, as well as for on-premises deployments. You’ll be able to connect with your colleagues and with anyone who has a Skype account.
Lync will become Skype for Business officially on March 18th. Rebranding will bring a new modern UI with elements from Lync and Skype and it will include well known Skype icons for calling and call monitor, possibility of calling any Skype user on any device, etc.
“A new client experience, new server release, and updates to the service in Office 365.”
Users with on-premises Lync servers will have to upgrade Skype for Business manually. For Office 365 for business customers, it will be done automatically.
The seminar was divided into two parts: Introduction to the Cloud and Power BI – Business Analytics; it was presented by Hrvoje Kusulja, the 3 PRO Chief Operating Officer.
There was talk about Cloud Services – Azure & Office 365 and their components, with details about installation, licensing, settings, support, upgrades and the advantages of Cloud Services. It was a summary of many of the possibilities that Cloud Services bring to Customers.
Microsoft’s Power BI provides a powerful way of visualizing information, analyzing data from various sources, discovering and exploring millions of data records, reporting and 3D geolocation analysis/correlation.
New Power BI features were also mentioned: interactive dashboards and reports, as well as visualizations and connections to popular SaaS solutions. Mobile PowerBI applications for iPad, iPhone, and Windows Devices were also shown, which enable quick access to corporate data while on the go.
• Office 365 implementation, migration from the existing system and/or Hybrid co-existence
• Office 365 education
• PowerBI integration with on-premises data sets (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2…)
• Support and maintenance
• SharePoint, CRM and .Net application development for your specific needs
Don’t hesitate to contact us for an individual meeting about Power BI!
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All WinDays15 visitors will have a chance to attend a presentation about the possibilities of Office 365 Power BI solutions and their integration with on-premises SQL databases, including Microsoft SQL Server and other database engines like MySQL and IBM DB2.
This will be a very useful presentation to those that have existing databases on which they’d like to apply various Business Intelligence scenarios.
Date and time: April 23rd, 2015;
Location: Umag, Croatia
Click here to see the official WinDays15 presentation details.
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System engineer by profession. Graduated Information Technologies from Polytechnic of Zagreb and worked in parallel in his own company on system engineering tasks such as IBM Enterprise Systems, Microsoft solutions – Windows Server, Exchange, System Center, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure Cloud solutions, etc. Earned numerous Microsoft and IBM certifications, as well as various awards and honors from his high school and faculty. Mostly devoted to Cloud technologies and perfecting himself in this field.
