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Convert your Figma designs to Microsoft Power Apps: Step-by-step Demo
Technology is evolving at a faster pace than we could ever imagine. Time and time again, innovative applications and processes are created to make our lives a little easier. The incredible web-based design tool Figma keeps pace with your team’s ideas and workflows – promoting [...]
7 Resolutions to Improve Digital Teamwork with Microsoft 365
Teamwork is essential to success, and while there’s no I in Team, there is most certainly a ‘me.’ Yes, teamwork gets a bit more challenging in the digital world, but it’s still our job as teammates to up our game. The good news is, Microsoft has [...]
A Guide to Microsoft Syntex, Content AI for Microsoft Cloud
Managing digital assets is one of the main obstacles that prevent organizations from reaching maximum efficiency. Our teams lose precious time reviewing content like proposals, contracts, invoices, and documents when they could spend it on high-value tasks for customers and the organization itself. So how [...]
What is Power Automate?
As one of the five applications available in the Power Platform, Power Automate is the most widely used among our clients and team. It enables users to build flows that automatically complete the repetitive manual tasks they spend so much time on daily. From web [...]
Microsoft Ignite 2022: Satya Nadella Keynote Takeaways
Microsoft Ignite sure has grown since its TechEd Florida days of the early 90s. The annual Microsoft conference usually lasts three to five days, and we look forward to every minute of it each year. It's where Microsoft unveils product roadmaps and its latest innovation. [...]
Intro to Intranet Success Metrics
A lot of effort went into implementing, building, and preparing your digital workspace. Whether you’ve passed a development milestone or are ready to go live today, you’ve come a long way. The next step — measuring your digital workspace's success — requires the same amount of [...]
Digital Transformation: Modernizing a Legacy System
Software is involved with everything we do. As employees, it’s heavily integrated into our workflows, which can affect our mood. That's why digital transformations are so important nowadays. Using the right software can foster innovation, productivity, and growth, while using the wrong software can leave [...]
Viva Goals and the Employee Experience—What You Need to Know
Microsoft Viva—dedicated to the employee experience—delivers education, critical company information, and insights right in the flow of work. Now, they're adding a new application to the suite that helps teams achieve their goals more efficiently. Viva Goals’ foundation embraces the OKR framework helping companies align [...]
Time Savings Newest Trend: Process Transformation
There’s a new way to save time, one that’s criminally underused and extremely powerful. No, it isn’t just about changing habits. It goes a step further and gets to the underlying problem: workflows. Yes, I’m talking about automation, but not just automation. Why not go [...]
Power Platform Centre of Excellence (CoE): An Introduction
If you’ve hung around the IT world the past few years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘digital transformation.’ It seems like everyone’s talking about it. But that’s about where it ends, talking about it. Not many companies are actually doing it, and if they are, [...]
Protect your Organization starting with the Zero Trust Model
Gone are the days when companies accessed and stored their resources on-premises. Now, hybrid and remote work is a reality that’s here to stay and securing data has become an urgent priority. Companies in the past functioned through their own secure on-premises network but today, [...]
Secure your staff’s mobile devices with Microsoft Intune
Nowadays, organization data can be accessed on multiple devices, offering flexibility, comfort, and increased productivity. These benefits also come with risks of exposing sensitive organization data to an unauthorized source. Intune allows users to manage and administer how the data is accessed across various devices [...]
Hybrid office, process transformation and secure cloud: what it means at Creospark
If you’ve been keeping up with us for a while, you probably know what we’re all about. If you don’t - that’s ok, we’ll cut you some slack (just this one time). At Creospark, we like to think of ourselves as an organization that [...]
Microsoft Viva Topics demystified
Artificial intelligence is taking over the world. Time to stop fearing SkyNet and embrace Johnny 5, friends! Whether we like it or not, the way business gets done is changing. According to Gartner, in the past four years, the number of businesses adopting artificial intelligence [...]
4 non-meeting related communication tips for Microsoft Teams
When you think about Microsoft Teams, the first thing that comes to mind is probably something along the lines of hosting meetings or chatting with co-workers – but there's so much more to it. Microsoft Teams promotes efficiency and productivity within your workspace through a variety of features – no meetings required! Let’s take a [...]
Improve Your Remote Leadership with Microsoft Teams
Leadership is not always an easy skill to acquire. For some, it comes naturally but for many, it must be taught. The tricky part about leadership, however, is that remote leadership is completely different. A manager can't just walk by to get a quick update [...]
Team engagement in a remote environment using Microsoft Teams
We now know that we’re capable of working remotely, and I think it’s fair to say that we have gotten pretty used to it, whether we wanted to or not! It has been such a long time! Seeing so many organizations adopt remote work simultaneously surely brought a lot of questions: are you [...]
Cloud based productivity suites: Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365
We're sure that you've heard of these two cloud-based productivity suites - Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365. You may not know how they are different from one another. Both have a vivacious following. Which camp do you side with? Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office [...]
Managing your email through a Microsoft Teams channel
Does your typical day look something like this: Outlook, Alt + Tab – Teams, Alt + Tab – Outlook, Alt + Tab – Teams? Add in a few more applications, and that sums up the day of the average corporate employee (minus the coffee, lunch, [...]
