Microsoft

After attending the SharePoint Conference a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas I was inspired to spend some time with Office Apps. Office Apps allow you to show a web page within an Office program. Literally, it is as basic as an iFrame within Word (or Excel etc) and a JavaScript Read More

With the recent launch of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft (MS) is placing even more emphasis on their suite of  Business Intelligence tools and features such as the multidimensional capabilities of Analysis Services or static visualisations using Reporting Services. Howeve Read More

  Good news for the cloud enthusiasts. Microsoft announced on March 14 price cuts to a number of its Office 365 enterprise and academic plans. Microsoft officials explain that due to economies of scale through their data centres and economies of skills with their staff they Read More

We have been named as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the UK – as ranked by the Sunday Times Tech Track 100.   The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private tech (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over the Read More

I’ve been asked several times by charities about whether they get a discount on Office 365 prices. They typically get a very good discount on normal purchased licenses so the standard pricing for Office 365 isn’t as attractive as it is for other organisations. There Read More

This question came up from a client last week and it was surprisingly hard to find an answer. But find it I did, from Microsoft’s Cloud Sales Manager in the UK. The question was related to SharePoint Online. With SharePoint Online Plan 1, you get 0.5GB of storage for £3.50 Read More

Actually it’s called UK Tech. Days 2011: The public cloud for IT professionals. Some key points: Microsoft is working to the NIST definition of Cloud: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of Read More