Legacy Data Considerations When Purchasing COTS Products
In January, AIS’ Steve Suing posted a great article titled “What to Know When Purchasing a COTS Product and Moving to the Cloud.” In his post, Steve discusses some things to consider such as security,...
View ArticleAdopting a Cloud Mindset for Successful Cloud Transformation
When you think about your organization’s cloud strategy, mindset may not be one of the first things you think about, but mindset is crucial. Adopting a cloud mindset has been called the “single most...
View ArticleSuccessful Cloud Transformation is Tech-Fueled, But People Focused
As an IT leader, you understand a successful cloud transformation positions IT as a business enabler, rather than a curator of infrastructure. Adopting the cloud is more than simply moving your on-prem...
View Article10 Tips for Easy and Engaging Meetings with Microsoft Teams
Overnight the world’s workforce has moved into the home office. As a result, online meetings are now the only way we meet. For many organizations, this sudden change has dramatically impacted how their...
View ArticleMass Quarantining and “Flattening the Curve”
The current approach of mass quarantining is to “flatten the curve.” However, learning about how the virus has spread and how it can return with the eventual restoration of our economy is something...
View ArticleEnabling a WFH Remote Workforce with Office 365
With the COVID-19 epidemic, businesses everywhere are rushing to meet the demand for remote work solutions and enable “business as usual” as much, and as quickly, as possible. While many have practiced...
View ArticleProgressive Web Apps: The Best Way to Develop for Mobile
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) As an introduction to PWAs, let’s build a mobile app the fastest, easiest way, using the Progressive Web App model. A PWA is both a mobile app and a website. Built with...
View ArticleWork Successfully from Home
Even before COVID-19, work from home/anywhere was a growing trend across many industries. Being mutually beneficial – employers could recruit and retain top talent due to the convenience of remote...
View ArticleLevel Up with Power Apps Portals
Getting started with Power Apps Portals is simple; knowing how to customize the portal to your needs and requirements will require more guidance. This guide will take you through important links, tips,...
View ArticleApplication Gateway Ingress Controller for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
In this blog post, I would like to introduce and explain Azure’s new service offering for Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). AKS is gaining momentum...
View ArticleWildcard Lookup Implementation in Microsoft Power Apps and Dynamics
Executive Summary This blog post is for Power Apps developers as well as end-users that are looking for a wildcard-like solution for Lookup controls in Microsoft Power App and Dynamics. It begins by...
View ArticleAIS Teams Named Global Hackathon Winners in Hack4Good
Congratulations to the AIS USA and India teams who represented AIS this past weekend in the global Hack4Good Hackathon and took home first and second place! The two teams of AIS employees went up...
View ArticlePluralsight Course: Power Platform Administration Foundation
As we are still adjusting to remote work, it has allowed me to uncover some extra time to record a Power Platform Administration Foundation Pluralsight course to complement the “dev side” course...
View ArticleChat bot Development: Working with Multiple Cognitive Services
Background On a previous project, I was a part of, the client wanted to explore a chatbot application for its employees. The goal was for the chatbot to help increase the office’s productivity. Certain...
View ArticleAzure Cognitive Search: Learning the Concepts
The first time I was introduced to Azure Cognitive Search was from the Microsoft AI Dev Intersection conference in 2019. I thought to write a quick blog post on it to help others understand its...
View ArticleEnhance Collaboration and Teamwork with MS Teams and Power Platform
In this post let’s see how Microsoft Teams’ capability to embed tools and applications on Teams channels can be leveraged to enhance collaboration and visibility within a team. We will create a Power...
View ArticleImportant Microsoft 365 Announcements from Microsoft Build and Their Impact
The pandemic has changed the way Microsoft has had to deliver new product enhancements, but it hasn’t slowed down the respective productive teams from unveiling significant changes to Microsoft 365....
View ArticleHow to Set up a Dynatrace Synthetic Browser Type Monitor
Application Performance Management (APM) is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of a software application. A proactive approach to monitoring the application can reduce...
View ArticleCode Generation with Microsoft Excel Part One: The Basics
This blog post is for all developers of all levels that are looking for ways to improve efficiency and time-saving ideas. It begins by providing some background on me and how my experience with...
View ArticleHow to Migrate and Troubleshoot File Servers in Azure
One of our clients has been pushing big to migrate all the application infrastructure to Azure. Some of the applications have been using on-prem file servers and we have been looking at different...
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