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Microsoft 365 E7 Licensing: Big Shift Towards AI as a Core Enterprise Platform
Early this year, Microsoft signaled a potential Microsoft 365 E7 licensing tier. For years, enterprise customers have speculated whether an E7 plan would follow E5, especially as Microsoft continues layering separately priced capability onto existing plans. Initially, the idea seemed unlikely. The January 2026 episode of Directions [...]
Governance in the Age of AI – Building Trust and Readiness for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is changing how organizations draft, analyze, and collaborate across Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. As AI becomes part of everyday work, leaders are asking an important question: is our Microsoft 365 environment ready to support AI responsibly - and can [...]
Building Trust and Readiness for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is changing how organizations draft, analyze, and collaborate across Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. As AI becomes part of everyday work, leaders are asking an important question: is our Microsoft 365 environment ready to support AI responsibly - and can we [...]
Copilot for Legal: Protecting Confidentiality While Boosting Productivity
Most managing partners, general counsel, and legal operations leaders aren’t asking whether AI is powerful. They already know it is. The real concern is simpler and more serious: Can we use AI without putting client confidentiality, ethical walls, or professional responsibility at risk? In [...]
How Law Firms Can Maximize Hourly Billing Efficiency with AI
Hourly billing has long been the financial foundation of legal practices. It reflects expertise, accountability, and the value of a lawyer’s judgment. But beneath that structure lies a deeper challenge; lawyers are working more than ever, yet billing less than they’d expect for the effort they put. The problem isn’t competence or commitment, it’s the mounting [...]
Automate the Mundane: Power Platform Use Cases for Law Firms
Legal professionals didn’t choose this profession to chase approvals, rename files, or manually update matter logs. Yet in many law firms, highly skilled lawyers and legal operations teams still spend hours every week on repetitive, low-value tasks. Intake emails are copied into spreadsheets. Engagement [...]
Agent in a Day
Agent in a Day is a beginner-level training designed to help anyone-whether you're a business expert or an IT developer-learn how to respond rapidly and at scale to customers, employees, and suppliers using agents. In just one day, you'll learn to build agents quickly using [...]
Agent in a Day
Agent in a Day is a beginner-level training designed to help anyone-whether you're a business expert or an IT developer-learn how to respond rapidly and at scale to customers, employees, and suppliers using agents. In just one day, you'll learn to build agents quickly using [...]
Day 12 – How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Work, One Day at a Time
As we wrap up our 12 Days of AI blog series, it’s clear that artificial intelligence isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a practical tool reshaping the way we work every single day. Over the past twelve posts, we’ve explored how AI can simplify tasks, [...]
Webinar Recap – Microsoft Ignite Unpacked: Roundtable Insights with Our Experts
Looking to make sense of the biggest announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025? Our recent webinar, Microsoft Ignite Unpacked: Roundtable Insights with Our Experts, broke down why this year’s innovations matter and how they can transform your organization’s digital employee experience. From AI-powered productivity to [...]
Webinar Recap – Beyond Passwords: How Microsoft Entra ID Enables a Secure, Seamless Future
Future-Proof Your Workforce: Why It’s Time to Go Passwordless In this month’s webinar, Security and Azure Practice Lead at Creospark, Colin Smith, took a deep dive into passwordless authentication, explaining what it is, why it’s more secure, and how it benefits organizations [...]
Agent in a Day (AgIAD)
Agent in a Day – CreoSpark Consulting Services Inc. (Canada) Learn how to rapidly build agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio in this beginner-friendly, full-day, instructor-led workshop. Through hands-on labs, you’ll create modern agent experiences for any scenario. What you’ll gain: Build agents using natural language [...]
AI-Powered Content Management Transformation with SharePoint Premium – ESPC 2025
Our CIO, Eric Overfield, will be speaking at this year's ESPC, AI-Powered Content Management Transformation with SharePoint Premium, happening December 1–4 in Dublin, Ireland! This leading European conference brings together experts and innovators to explore the future of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Azure. Eric [...]
TechCon 365 – Dallas 2025
Our CIO, Eric Overfield, will be speaking at TechCon 365, Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Conference, on November 3–7, your go-to training conference for Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Azure, and AI! Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned expert, you'll find tailored sessions and hands-on [...]
Future-Proof Your Workforce: Why It’s Time to Go Passwordless
Join us on Thursday, October 23, 2025, from 2:00 – 3:00 PM (EST) for an engaging session on how passwordless authentication is transforming digital security and user experience. Discover why leading tech companies have already made passwords obsolete and learn how your organization can follow [...]
Your 90-Day Roadmap toward Copilot Success
The Copilot Success Series This article is the final entry in our four-part series on making Microsoft 365 Copilot succeed; feel free to explore the other blogs. We’ve covered why most AI pilots fail, the playbook of alignment, trust, and adoption, and what success looks [...]
What Copilot Success Really Looks Like
The Copilot Success Series This article is the third in our four-part series on making Microsoft 365 Copilot succeed. In Blog 1, we explored why most AI pilots fail. In Blog 2, we introduced the playbook of alignment, trust, and adoption. Today, we focus [...]
The Copilot Playbook — Alignment, Trust, and Adoption
The Copilot Success Series This article is the second in our four-part series on making Microsoft 365 Copilot succeed. In Blog 1, we explored why most AI pilots fail and what leaders can do differently. Today, we move from lessons learned to a practical [...]
Why Most AI Pilots Fail and What Leaders Can Do Differently with Microsoft 365 Copilot
The Copilot Success Series This article is the first in our four-part series on making Microsoft 365 Copilot succeed. Across the series, we’ll explore why most AI pilots fail, the playbook of alignment, trust, and adoption, what real success looks like, and a 90-day [...]
Webinar Recap: 95% of AI Pilots Fail – How to Make Microsoft 365 Copilot Succeed
Date of Webinar: September 25th, 2025 Speakers: Carolyn Gjerde, Technology Analyst Team Lead | Jeff Schwalm, Director of Sales AI is everywhere... but how do you make it work for your organization? On September 25th, Creospark hosted “95% of AI Pilots Fail - How [...]
