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Accelerate Custom Power App Creation | Convert Figma Designs to Power Apps Automatically
The Viva Dashboard is one of Viva Connections' most powerful yet misunderstood components. The Dashboard pulls the tools your employees need in a quick and easily consumable dashboard that they can access in the office or on the go. Dynamic interactive dashboard cards allow employees to complete simple tasks or review critical data right in the flow of their work.
Which Personal Booking System is Right for You?
Did you know that professionals on average spend 5 hours per week trying to schedule meetings? Personal booking systems are here to help you reclaim your precious time! What are Personal Booking Systems? Personal Booking Systems are platforms that allow you to create and schedule [...]
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 [...]
What is Microsoft Power Platform: A Summary
What is the Power Platform? The Microsoft Power Platform might sound like standalone software, but it’s actually a set of powerful business applications aimed at helping organizations transform the way employees work. The collection of applications includes Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Virtual [...]
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, [...]
Viva Dashboard | What is it? How to use it. How to make it your own.
The Viva Dashboard is one of Viva Connections' most powerful yet misunderstood components. The Dashboard pulls the tools your employees need in a quick and easily consumable dashboard that they can access in the office or on the go. Dynamic interactive dashboard cards allow employees to complete simple tasks or review critical data right in the flow of their work.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium or Microsoft 365 Enterprise Licenses, which one is for you?
Having an efficient, hybrid work environment with easy-to-use software is one of—if not the biggest—needs in companies today. Harnessing the ability to create distinct types of documents tailored to your specific needs and collaborating with your colleagues gives users the tools they need to complete [...]
Microsoft Teams Essential vs Microsoft 365
How do I know which Microsoft product is right for my organization? With different, yet similar products like Microsoft Teams (free), Microsoft Teams Essential, Microsoft 365 Business, and Microsoft 365 Enterprise, it’s no wonder we can get lost in deciding which product is right for us. [...]
Dataverse: 6 Easy Steps to Enable Column Level Security
Were you ever worried about who has permission to see sensitive information stored within the companies database? Nowadays, a business' data has evolved from being stored in traditional files and cabinets to being fully on the cloud. With the Implementation of the Microsoft Power Platforms [...]
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 [...]
SharePoint Syntex – features and elements explained
SharePoint has been around for many years. Since 2001! It is still a fan-favourite content management platform, first on-premises then in the cloud. According to Microsoft, as of July 2017 SharePoint had 190 million users across 200,000 customer organizations. Just as the rest of the [...]
Microsoft Viva Learning: your new study buddy
Whether you’re an expert in your field or have just switched professions or maybe you’re just a curious being, there are always more opportunities to learn. The great part about the world we live in today is the extreme innovation that is constantly taking place. As a result, there is an abundance of information shared across the internet [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Viva Connections: What is it, exactly?
One of the more obvious challenges presented by a remote work environment is the lack of social connection. It can be easy to feel isolated and disconnected when you’re working behind a screen all day alone in your living room. Having social connections has been [...]
Viva Insights: what is it and what are the benefits?
Every single day that you show up to work, whether virtually or in the office, you’re releasing data. And for better or for worse, technology usually captures this data. Your work patterns, habits, and tendencies are valuable insights that can be analyzed to improve the [...]
New Microsoft price increase: reflecting 10 years of development
Can you believe that it's been a decade since the launch of Office 365?! Since then, Microsoft has introduced a variety of applications and exercised great innovation to improve the Office 365 experience - and with this innovation, a Microsoft price increase will soon take [...]
Microsoft 365 Office features to empower your hybrid office
Let’s start by thinking back on the massive shifts that have hit the work environment in the last year and a half and forced us all into a business transformation frenzy that we call the hybrid office, shall we? Traditional work habits were put [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
