Building Resilient Supply Chains: What Does the New Executive Order Mean for Your Business?
In the past year, the global pandemic, economic disruption and broad shifts in consumer behavior caused a domino effect of supply gaps that exposed long-standing [...]
IT Modernization or Digital Transformation? Understanding the Right Strategy for Your Manufacturing Business
For manufacturers today, the ability to both modernize existing IT and integrate new technology is essential to stay competitive. The more ambitious organizations will know [...]
Doing nothing can be more costly than an upgrade
More and more companies are considering an upgrade from an on-premise ERP solution, such as Microsoft Dynamics AX, to Microsoft Dynamics 365. The move to [...]
Predicting Whether a Tumor is Benign or Malignant (and Doing Other Amazing Things Surprisingly Fast) with NO CODING Using Azure Automated Machine Learning
As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM technical consultant, I work with thousands of rows of data in large databases on a daily basis. Being the [...]
How the Azure Cloud Saved the Day for a Worldwide Non-Profit Supporting a Remote Workforce During the COVID Pandemic
For any company or organization with employees working remotely, having a stable, reliable way to communicate and send or receive needed supplies and equipment is [...]
How COVID-19 Caused Record Breaking Sales for a Company…and Then Brought It to Its Knees: A Tragic Lesson in Business Continuity Planning
With the COVID-19 pandemic, business continuity is top of mind. But when we think of “business continuity,” we relate it to how we prepare to [...]
How to Go Remote When You’re Not a Remote “Type” of Business: 3 Tips for CIOs
The COVID-19 virus hit…and now your company needs to figure out how to work with no employees in the office. What is your remote workforce [...]
Working from Home for the First Time? Don’t Panic. Here are 5 Tips
You're one of the millions of people thrust into working from home now, and you might not have ever done that before. Even if you [...]
The Sudden Need to Work Remotely: How This Company Transitioned 500 Users in Just One Weekend with a Cost-Effective Solution on Microsoft Azure
At 3 PM last Friday, we received an urgent call from a long-time client. Like thousands of companies across the world, this national media company [...]
Microsoft Customer Story: Non-Profit Leverages Azure for More Than $6 Billion in Education Funding
In 2019, HSO helped The Commit Partnership, a Texas-based non-profit that supports education efforts, gain control of the data they depend on for funding and [...]
NetHope Continues to Empower Nonprofits by Connecting Them with Microsoft Technology Partners
This week, NetHope’s Center for the Digital Nonprofit announced something that should be very exciting to non-profit organizations. But before we go there, let's talk [...]
Empower Your Help Desk by Creating a Bot…with ZERO Coding!
Many help desks face the same challenge: Answering basic and frequently asked questions. Every IT help desk receives questions like, “How do I reset my [...]
When Your ERP or CRM is Missing That One Critical Feature: Go Cloud Native!
Too many times have I heard this from CXOs: “My CRM (or ERP) is fantastic, BUT…”. Or how about the countless times I have seen [...]
Better Data Analytics from Microsoft Azure Helps The Commit Partnership Improve Dallas Area Schools
How The Commit Partnership maximized their impact on the community The Commit Partnership is a coalition of more than 200 partners that works to help [...]
The Cloud Wars? Microsoft Azure versus Amazon Web Services (AWS), Part 1: The Top 3 Things a CTO Needs to Know
This is Part 1 of a multi-blog series “The Cloud Wars.” Watch for more in this series. A long time ago…in a city far, far [...]
ERP in the Cloud: 4 Game Changers for Your Accounting and Finance Department
The role of the accounting and finance department has changed. There is pressure like never before to share data with the entire organization and offer [...]
Azure Cloud at Work for Nonprofits: HSO Joins Microsoft and NetHope to Help with Digital Transformation
Since January 2016, Microsoft has been focused on helping nonprofits move to the cloud with an investment of money and resources. It has donated over [...]
Digital Transformation Accelerated: 5 Ways the Hybrid Cloud Can Work for You
In just the past couple of years, hybrid cloud adoption has expanded across a range of sectors. From finance to government and software to telecom, [...]
3 Game-Changing Technology Opportunities That Make Us Excited About COVITS 2018
It’s that time again: COVITS 2018 is right around the corner. Hosted by Government Technology, COVITS offers an agenda that has been designed by a board [...]