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Gone are the days when operating a business required rooms full of physical file cabinets stuffed with forests full of cardboard and paper containing all of the information a business needed. While the dream of a paperless office may still be decades away, it is closer now than it ever was. Using The Cloud as an option for document management solutions is not only wise, but a no-brainer for decreasing space usage while increasing productivity. Here are the top five reasons why you should manage your documents in The Cloud. Accessibility The Cloud is a simple file storage solution found online which allows any number of users to access, download, and edit a file as needed in real-time. In addition, you can use almost any device to access the file, so long as the device itself is capable of viewing the document. This means phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, and other devices can all access a cloud document. Considering that most workers average more than three Internet-capable devices t...

What just happened? Have you ever found yourself wishing there was a way to keep track of certain key points you wanted to mention while writing a lengthy Word document? If so, Microsoft has you covered now - if you"re an Office 365 user, you can now enjoy this benefits. Microsoft has announced that it has released the new capability in beta designed to automatically search for texts in a document containing "todo:" or "<< insert something here >>". Users will then be able to view a complete list of to-dos and click on each item to go to the appropriate portion in that document. The to-do feature, is an AI-powered tool that allows users to easily pick up where they left off in a document. Microsoft says that most Word users add a placeholder in a document to mark an area they need to return to later on. This enables them to keep working without breaking their flow, but isn’t ideal for managing a document. The new AI-based tool automatically creates...

Back in June, at the Xbox E3 2018 press conference, Xbox head Phil Spencer reported that cloud engineers were building a game streaming network that would be proficient at streaming console-grade games on any compatible device. Microsoft has been implying at such a service for a long while, however on Monday, the software giant announced officially that it was launching Project xCloud, thereby allowing us a sneak peek into what such a service would like from next year. As Microsoft states, there are billions of gamers everywhere throughout the world, yet not every one of them possess or are even keen on owning gaming consoles. The best way to reach whatever number individuals as could be expected under the circumstances is to enable them to play games more flexibly on devices such as the PC, tablet and even the phone.  With that in mind, Microsoft has assembled custom devices called "blades" utilizing the parts inside Xbox One consoles and has started introducing those blade...

Microsoft’s Office 365 service has been a great deal for a long time, and it’s eventually getting better— Soon, Office 365 Home will let six users install an unlimited number of Office applications. In an announcement , recently made by Microsoft, currently the improvement for Office 365 users in which the Office 365 Home allows up to five users but now, what’s new is that Microsoft is raising this limit to six, so each Office 365 Home account gets an additional user. Office 365 is essentially a Microsoft Office subscription. While the family plan, named Office 365 Home, costs $100 per year. For that price, five (soon six) people can install the latest versions of Microsoft Office on their PCs, Macs, tablets, and phones. Each person gets 1TB of OneDrive storage too. Microsoft has made a few account changes that are taking effect immediately. After signing up for Office 365, all user accounts in your Microsoft Family will be automatically given access. You can ma...

In a move designed to drive iCloud storage subscription upgrades, Apple is now promoting free 200GB of iCloud storage space on a trial basis for 2 months to customers upgrading to a new iPhone—By offering 200GB of storage space on iCloud, Apple is hoping to make it easier for users switching from an Android device to an iPhone to easily move their data to Apple’s ecosystem. By default, an iCloud account comes with a measly 5GB of free storage space. As this offer will be presented to iPhone upgraders, the idea behind this marketing move is that customers can use this 200GB bucket to ensure their current phone data is safely backed up. Then, you can simply sign into iCloud on the new phone and have everything get sucked up. Note that the financial value of this offer isn’t that fantastic. Since May, Apple started offering 30 day free trials for all new subscriptions to iCloud paid tiers . So, in reality, what customers get for free here is an additional month, which usu...

Even if you aren’t technology savvy, you can’t fail to have heard about cloud computing. As more and more businesses migrate to the cloud, it is becoming an issue that no company or organisation can overlook. When you’re running a small business, it can seem that there is so much to do that the last thing you need are additional priorities. After all, you’re already having to deal with everything from tax issues to contractor services for agencies . Do you really need to start worrying about cloud computing? Unfortunately, the answer is yes it is, if you want your business to grow. That is, after all, the ultimate aim of every new business, whether you are a small manufacturer who started work in your garage or a revolutionary start-up like Uber or Airbnb. And as big business increasingly moves to the cloud, small businesses can’t afford to ignore the trend.   The benefits of cloud computing Cloud computing software covers pretty much every area of bu...

As Google has committed itself to becoming an enterprise technology vendor, it has followed a path it knows very well in pitching big open-source projects as the solution to the challenges of distributed computing. The company has announced the second of two partnerships that will allow it to offer the financial services industry and others a cloud-based platform on which they can develop and run blockchain-based applications. In a blog post ahead of its Google Cloud Next "18 conference this week, the search giant said it is partnering with Digital Asset and BlockApps to enable customers to "explore ways they might use distributed ledger technology (DLT) frameworks on Google"s Cloud Platform (GCP).  The tie-up means that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers will now be able to build distributed ledger technology (DLT) frameworks (essentially the backbone of blockchain) in their own apps and services. Digital Asset is a provider of DLT software for the financial servi...

More and more pharma companies along with companies in the healthcare and life sciences sector are turning to replace wet ink signatures in documents with computer-generated documents to speed up work and lower cost. While the use of computers and computer systems for operations is unrestricted for industries, for the previously mentioned regulated industries things are slightly different. For using computers in the regulated sectors as part of the manufacturing, quality control, and other operations, it is necessary to use software approved by FDA. Salesforce software is ideal because it comes as validation ready software and its features meet the requirements stipulated in 21 CFR Part 11, considered the bible of the regulated industries. cGMP and more For following the best practices of the industry, pharma, healthcare and life sciences, industries have to comply with cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) in their operations.  According to the experts at Flosum.com , to int...

One of the most frustrating things about being an iPhone owner is the lack of expandable storage. Once you have gotten the model of your choice, be it 32GB, 64GB or 256GB, you’re stuck with that storage until you buy a new phone. And Of course, you can also compensate the non-expandable storage with iCloud, but Apple only provides 5GB of cloud storage for free. If you want an amount that you can actually use, you’ll have to pay a monthly fee of $0.99 or more in order to access it. Most iPhone users are already familiar with the word “You do not have enough space in iCloud to backup your iPhone” message, which seems to pop up most times as a reminder. And users have long complained about the lack of free iCloud storage but now the company appears to be taking one step in the right direction. However, the recent development is that when users choose to upgrade from the 5GB free tier, they will receive the first month of their new tier for free.  As first noted...

Facebook is launching a slew of updates to its Stories feature. The social media giant will now let users save photos and videos to the Facebook cloud, archive Facebook Stories and share voice messages with friends. The first feature is called Voice Posts. The feature will let Facebook users quickly share voice messages between one another. This is just as similar to that of WhatsApp, which means it will allow users make calls within their Facebook messenger instead of using normal calls to keep in touch and it sounds like these will be designed to be quick and easy to share. The other feature is the ability to archive Facebook Stories before they expire in the standard 24 hours. This is a similar feature to what Facebook introduced with Instagram last year, so it isn’t too surprising to see it pop up in the Facebook app proper. And the experience might be same or even better.  Finally, the marquee and mind blowing feature is cloud storage for photos and videos that are tak...

  The machine learning tools will help developers build and deploy machine learning models. Office 365 is built on Microsoft’s powerful platform for AI that makes advancements in machine learning and AI accessible to every developer.  Office 365 is built on Microsoft’s powerful platform for AI that makes advancements in machine learning and AI accessible to every developer and organisation. From document translation to intelligent threat detection, AI is already enhancing the productivity experience of over 120 million commercial Office 365 users. Today at Microsoft"s annual developer conference, the company announced a slew of new tools for its Microsoft 365 suite, which combines Windows 10, Office 365 and its Enterprise Mobility + Security package. Among the additions is Windows Machine Learning, a new platform that will help developers create machine learning models in the intelligent cloud and then put them into use. Microsoft already uses AI in its Office 365...

Realistically speaking, every enterprise workforce revolves around the standard office productivity tools such as Word, Excel, emails, calendars, and PowerPoint. But ever since the workforce has been heavily dependent on mobile, these tools have had to reinvent. That is probably the only reason that Microsoft decided to upgrade to a platform that is more mobile collaborative and helps in getting more work done. Microsoft Office suite has become the go to tool for almost every organisation, and it is the only suite that we measure the competitors against. So given that Microsoft is the leader in this section, it is essential that you know everything about Office. To help you become ‘Office’ savvy, we have compiled a list of important details and created a guide that you can refer to. Office at a glance : Office 365? A productivity suite application that is one of the most important source to get work done, which comes loaded with applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint,...

Teams gets upgrades including Cortana integration Microsoft says Teams is now used by 200,000 organisations in 181 markets and 39 languages. That is up from 125,000 as of September 2017 and 50,000 when the preview was announced about year ago. Office 365 itself has 120 million business users. Launched in November 2016, Microsoft’s Teams has managed to outperform its counterparts so far like Google Suite and Facebook Workplace. About 30,000 businesses were using Facebook Workplace as of October 2017 but while Microsoft has something to celebrate here, its main competitor Slack still leads in this area. As of September 2017, Slack had 6 million daily active users with 2 million of those users paying. Microsoft hasn’t disclosed the number of individuals using this service but it looks like they are not yet up to that of Slack which is why they may have chosen to just report on an organisational level first. To mark one of year of Teams launch, Microsoft is bringing the follo...