Technical Architect - Unified Communications & Collaboration
How many times have you or your team members tried to make sense of raw data in a large, ugly Excel spreadsheet, spending hours on that one pivot chart needed for the next quarterly meeting? Times have changed, and we need better ways to visualize raw data and run better analysis from different angles. Today,…
Automation helps supercharge collaboration apps. My colleagues and I spend a lot of our days using Cisco Spark. We send each other quick questions via instant message; we collaborate face-to-face in virtual video meetings; we call clients on the phone and we share documents via Box, all within Spark. As a technical lead at CDW,…
With the holiday season on the horizon, retailers must prepare to compete more intensely than ever for their piece of the growing, but finite consumer spending. Increasingly, that means upping their omnichannel retail communications game. After all, customers are moving more fluidly than ever among retail channels — including physical stores, websites, calls to the…
A new concept drawing a lot of attention these days is the Internet of Things or IoT. The idea is to make everything connect to the Internet so you can automate and control it. Take, for example, industry segments like retail, manufacturing, healthcare, public safety and more. Each is trying to identify areas to improve…
Remember those days when customizing MS Office clients (Word, Excel and Outlook) used to be a complicated development task? Well, with new features in Visual Studio, building office apps is much easier and there is much less code to deal with. In this blog post, I will discuss the task pane apps for Outlook. Task…
As cloud IT models gain more market share and small- to medium-sized businesses become more comfortable with cloud security/governance, opportunities are growing to save money and increase productivity. The Microsoft Office 365 platform not only offers email and document management in the cloud, it goes beyond these key offerings to help transform day-to-day business tasks. In…
Let’s face it, large datasets can be overwhelming and intimidating. Just because data begins as an endless shapeless stream of facts and figures, who says it has to stay that way? There are many ways to present raw data in an easy-to-read format. For many routine business scenarios, Microsft Excel is the tool used to…
