On 27 November we celebrated in Barcelona a new edition of our successful event on how to boost competitiveness in enterprises.
As in previous editions, the event was a great success of participation and a great rating in the polls. Our specialists in Office 365, Azure, Big Data and Portal Builder showed how the solutions and latest developments in the cloud of Microsoft, enable companies to increase productivity, the level of innovation and reduce costs.
In the event, held in the auditorium of the College of Economists of Catalonia attendees they enjoyed a day of demos practices and real examples of success in our clients.
Here are the team that participated in the event:
Carlos Redondo, head of corporate clients of Microsoft, gave way to the day with an introduction in which he spoke about the remarkable career of many years experience of Softeng in Office 365 and Azure, noting that Softeng is a leading expert partners in Cloud and represents a great example of total business transformation toward cloud solutions.
Carlos Colell and Imma standards, CEO and Director respectively, we discussed the main reasons why companies opt for the cloud with real examples of success stories from customers like Noria Group, Nexus energy, Vueling or Zeppelin TV.
In his presentation we also discovered the smart cloud Microsoft and how companies can transform their data into intelligent actions.
Our specialists in Office 365, and Iker Masuet Ramon Diaz, showed us through several case studies, how to generate greater value for our company and customers using the tools of Office 365.
During his presentation we discovered how it is evolving the way businesses work and how new tools that incorporates Office 365 allows us to be more productive working naturally and intelligently.
Jordi Fernández, Manager of Softeng Cloud Solutions, explained how to deal with the modernization of our on-premise IT infrastructure with Microsoft Azure, through case studies in which attendees could see:
- The savings, flexibility and speed of Azure to adapt to changes required by your company.
- Business-critical applications in Azure with high availability and security.
- How to protect your business against disasters: Your plan B in the cloud for applications to stay “at home”.
Maureen Manubens, Microsoft Office product manager, presented us with a preview of the latest Office 365. During his presentation, Maureen explained in detail the developments of the new business plan E5 Office 365, highlighting the new communication services in real time Business skype who join the new plan, as the possibility of the exchange in the cloud (Cloud PBX) and online events make up 10,000 people (Meeting Broadcast) and many more innovations presented exclusively for attendees and that we will tell ?
Our Portal Builder Specialists, Ibon Uria and Jordi Marchan, showed us how it is possible to generate business managing a site with Portal Builder productively and independently and the value of being the first in the major search engines. They surprised us with the speed with which Portal Builder adapts the contents of a website automatically depending on the device from which you access, adjusting and resizing images and columns depending on the screen resolution without losing quality.
Marc Jordana and David Rangel, Office 365 Softeng Specialists, made us an entertaining demonstration of safety offered by the cloud through practical cases in which attendees could see:
- How to detect, protect and respond to situations as committed information leaks.
- Control employee access to any applications running in the cloud
- Controlling devices with which users access Office 365.
In the last presentation, our team of specialists Office 365, Ramon Masuet, Rodrigo Perez and Iker Diaz helped us prepare for the revolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) showing how to derive value from the data:
- Discovering intelligent actions from your Analytics data with Cortana IOT Suite and Machine Learning.
- Making available to users the power of the data. Microsoft Power BI.
Attendees had the opportunity to participate in an open question time in which our team responded to all questions posed to them and focused mainly on security issues in the cloud, Machine Learning and the new Office 365 plan.
As a climax to a great day, a raffle of several next generation Nokia devices, including the new Microsoft Lumia 950 Congratulations to the winners! Was performed
We want to thank all attendees for their participation both as the great results we have obtained in the polls.
For all those who were unable to attend due to lack of space and for all who want to know the latest developments of Microsoft Cloud solutions, we announced that we are working on two new editions, one in Barcelona and Madrid, of which I will talk soon ?