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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 [...]
5 quick tips to increase your efficiency in Microsoft Teams
We all have a few routine tasks and features we access in Microsoft Teams, depending on how you use the app and for what purpose. Believe it or not, there are still many people only using MS Teams for the purpose of chats and online [...]
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 [...]
Using Microsoft Planner for managing project tasks
It should come as no surprise that organizations that have a project management process are far more likely to deliver projects on time and under budget than those that don't. Despite this seemingly obvious fact, it's surprising is that only 46% of organizations actually do [...]
Training a team on Microsoft Teams – for reals.
During the last year, it is unquestionable that we have trained multiple new users from companies who adopted Microsoft Teams for their online collaboration. One of the world’s leaders in digital workplace strategies, Microsoft 365 has changed the way we work, literally. However, we run [...]