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Streamline Your Team’s Communication and Organization with Microsoft Teams!

In today's fast-paced and interconnected business world, effective communication and seamless organization are crucial for success. This is where Microsoft Teams comes into play - a powerful collaboration platform that brings all your team's conversations, files, and meetings together in one place. Let's explore some of the key features that make...

SharePoint vs. OneDrive: Unraveling the Differences and Use Cases

SharePoint and OneDrive are both part of Microsoft's suite of productivity tools, but they serve different functions and have distinct use cases.  Here's a comparison of their functions: SharePoint: Collaboration: SharePoint is primarily designed for team collaboration, allowing users to create and manage team sites where they can collaborate on documents, share information,...

Navigating Azure Active Directory B2C: A Comprehensive Guide for Success

In today's digital landscape, managing and securing user identities is paramount for organizations. Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure B2C) provides a cloud-based identity and access management service, empowering businesses to handle user identities for applications and services effectively. In this blog post, we will explore some invaluable tips to enhance...

Streamline Content Management Within Your Microsoft 365.

Introduction: In today's digital landscape, businesses generate vast amounts of content daily. Managing this content effectively is crucial for compliance, risk mitigation, and ensuring users have access to relevant and current information. At Spot Solutions, we understand organizations' challenges in handling increasing content within their Microsoft 365 (M365) tenant. This blog...

Is SharePoint Migration on Your Mind? Know Before You Go.

The world and technology are constantly changing and evolving, and as a company, you need to keep up with current changes to provide better and more efficient services or products. One way of achieving this is by improving your existing management system. Don’t know where to begin? Don’t worry, we...

What Are The Benefits of Using SharePoint Online?

There are plenty of collaboration and content management platforms in the market, why should we choose SharePoint Online? Costs SharePoint Online is more cost-effective in the long run compared to other platforms. It is available on a subscription basis and follows a pay-as-you-use payment model that charges based on usage. This means...

Microsoft Customer Relationship Management Data Migration

Microsoft’s customer relationship management system, better known as Microsoft CRM, is a tool used by companies to organize, track, and maintain healthy relationships with its clientele. It’s not unusual for businesses to be a few updates behind the newest software. In order to migrate a CRM server to a newer...

User Centred Design at Spot Solutions

User Centered Design (Human Centered Design) is a design and development approach that keeps users' needs and goals as the focus of the design process. Solutions begin and end with the end user in mind. By involving human perspective in all phases of the process, a product is produced that...

Creating your first Phonegap (Cordova) application

Before starting, it’s worth knowing the difference between Cordova and Phonegap: Apache Cordova is mobile application development framework. In 2011 Cordova was purchase by Adobe and rebranded to PhoneGap. The open source version of PhoneGap continues to be released as Apache Cordova. Apache enables software developers to build mobile applications using HTML5,...

Build or Buy: Deciding between Custom Software or COTS

You need software to run your business effectively.  It is a core tool of your business operations and your people depend on it.  So when should you buy Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software and configure it for your needs; and when should you consider a custom software solution? The reason I started...

SharePoint Saturday – A Hacker’s Dream: SharePoint Talk

A recent study shows two-thirds of SharePoint users have no security policy !! Ian Naumenko is the Director of IT and Security Operations at Spot Solutions. He has worked with SharePoint since its inception (Taho). He is also an expert and certified as an Information Security professional. The combination of the...

How to prepare for Custom Software Development

At Spot Solutions, we make sure that your quality custom software is delivered on time and on budget. To achieve that, we have to build a productivity tool that tailors to your business needs. Here’s a guide to how you can help us achieve the business purpose of the software.  General...

Automated Tests Use Case with CMC

Working on the CMC Sensor Monitoring project, we found the test utilities in Visual Studio to be very helpful. One of the components of the CMC system, web service, was utilized by gateways in the local network. The gateways relayed data from a series of sensors, this data was then...