Microsoft recently presented how Air Transat digitally transformed crew operations by leveraging SharePoint Online. Paper-based processes were eliminated, with all flight information centralized in SharePoint and automatically distributed to the iPads of directors using Colligo Engage. The results? Air Transat reported a 91% satisfaction rates among crew!
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Can you think of an industry that’s more mobile than airlines? To prepare for flights, crew are working from their homes, shuttles, taxis, hotels, airports … and of course, they are working to impress passengers aboard flights. Making sure that the right information is available at the right time – even in “airplane” mode – …
Continue reading »Digital workplace technology can aid the safety, productivity and governance of power distribution utility maintenance crews. Our readers in the energy utility space will be intimately familiar with the integration of information technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT)–often dubbed “IT/OT convergence.” In a recent article in Oil & Gas Australia Simon Vardy, Accenture Strategy Utilities Lead for …
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Our team has been busy attending and speaking at recent SharePoint Saturdays in Calgary (April 1st) and Vancouver (April 8th). As we wait for the April showers to clear, we wanted to share a few takeaways: User adoption remains the biggest barrier to successful SharePoint projects. During a lunchtime presentation in Vancouver, we ran a …
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Last week, KMWorld hosted a webinar on how to “Increase Productivity with Collaboration.” As guest speaker, I discussed the need for today’s enterprises to balance worker empowerment with information governance within a highly digitized workplace, which Gartner defines as: … a business strategy to boost employee agility and engagement through a consumerized environment.” Highly governed …
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Demand for mobile apps in the enterprise is growing, reports Gartner. “The mobile app should make work faster, and better, for the employee, as well as less expensive,” advises Van Baker, Research Vice President. But not all enterprise mobility apps are made equal. Having to look for the right information can drastically hamper efficiency. IDC …
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Investing in mobility continues to top the IT agenda for 2017. According to IDC’s 2016 Mobile Enterprise Devices, Security, Services and Solutions Survey, 65% of enterprises plan to increase mobility spending this year, purchasing mobile devices for employees, while adding application security and content security solutions. While investments are going up, IT will need to …
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