Power BI is the new tool of Business Intelligence (BI) incorporating productivity suite, Office 365.

This new tool allows you to analyze and interact with a massive amount of data in Excel, gathering information through natural language requests and question-answer type.

With Power BI have the ability to search easily access and transform data into and out of the organization, from anywhere, on almost any device. Also, you can analyze and create compelling interactive visualizations.

The tool allows you to easily get information of value to your data, working from Excel for analysis and display independently.

Microsoft offers a solution that enhances the following functionalities of Excel

• Power Query, allows users to easily find, access public information and data in your organization.
• Power Map, a tool for 3D visualization, to analyze spatial and temporal data, superimposed on maps. Additionally, you can capture scenes for creating presentations.
• Power Pivot to create and adapt flexible data models in Excel.
• Power View to create interactive charts, graphs and other visual representations of data.

Collaboration capabilities, search and mobility
Power BI complements the power of SharePoint and offers capabilities to collaborate and provide access to information safely and in a trusted environment, providing:

• Power BI sites, collaborative workspaces and dedicated BI to share data and information of value to business users. Power BI sites keep information current connectivity to various data sources in my organization.
• Query capabilities in natural language, which allows users to ask questions and get answers. Just ask the question in a dialog box, the system automatically interprets and generates interactive charts and graphs based on information available.
• Experience Mobile BI, touch applications ideal for Windows 8, Windows RT and iPad, so you can stay connected to your reports and data from anywhere, as well as support for HTML5 in the browser on any device.

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Social networking is one of the best allies of the companies because they generate strong ties with customers. Creating and sharing quality content on them, it has become an essential technique to build customer loyalty and increase the ratio of visits to the website.

To do this, Portal Builder helps you with a new feature that lets you share the contents of your site automatically and in major social networks without having to go to each of the portals.

Here’s how to do it:

From the screen C ompartir on social networks, which is accessed from the share button menu bar Edit in place, you can set up Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Google Plus to share your content published.

As shown in the above image, the screen provides a preview of how will be the publication in the networks you’ve set up, giving you the ability to adjust the text, select the images and add a personal comment on each.

With the ease of sharing content and good Portal Builder Online Marketing strategy, your company has guaranteed success! We invite you to read our post about online marketing strategies

As part of the promise to continuously deliver value to customers of Office 365, Microsoft has announced on its official blog, an innovation that affects Exchange Online customers of all plans of Office 365 service.

As of now, the limited space to store emails and attachments, not a problem to most active users of email because you have increased the mailbox size going from 25 Gb to 50 Gb current users Kiosk plans will increase the mailbox size to 2 GB

On the other hand, has improved other storage space as shared mailboxes and resource mailboxes that raise your space to 10 GB

Office 365 has adopted a policy of continuous improvement updates and online services are becoming increasingly attractive to the jump to the cloud.

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Microsoft has made ​​public on its official blog a number of significant improvements in SkyDrive Pro, that will help users be more productive office 365 and I discussed below:

1 – Increased storage space
Office 365 users will benefit from an increase of 25 Gb storage space compared to 7 Gb offering the service today.

2 – Ability to increase storage for SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online administrators can increase Pro SkyDrive space from the current 25 to 50 Gb or 100 Gb, for users with high storage needs. This additional space will cost € 0.15 per GB per month.

3 – New View
SkyDrive Pro includes a new feature called Share me, a view that you can easily find documents other employees have shared with the user, facilitating collaboration among company employees.

What is SkyDrive Pro?

It is the document storage service in the cloud that companies provide their employees (MySite libraries) plus a client application that provides both local implementations Office 2013 as various plans in Office 365 Cloud version and can connect to both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.

With SkyDrive Pro, employees can store, sync and share your files with ease and security.

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SharePoint 2013, the new version of the Microsoft collaboration platform, incorporates interesting features and new ways of sharing and working with others, helping to improve the productivity of your organization.

In this post we highlight the five reasons why I choose SharePoint 2013 is a decision that brings great benefits to businesses.

1 – Improves your employee collaboration
SharePoint 2013 has been optimized considering the way users work, providing a simple and consistent appearance of information, collaboration and processing, on a platform that meets the needs of your company. Also, with the new features you can share documents with your suppliers and customers.

2 – Knowledge, … available to all people
The new version of the collaboration platform introduces the concept of community, a place where people can discuss your business and collaborate socially through microbloging walls (a la Facebook) and with some additional features such as management the reputation of people.

As I have discussed in previous post, the acquisition of Yammer, the enterprise social network from Microsoft, also reinforces social capabilities of the platform.

3 – Manage projects better your team
The new capabilities of SharePoint facilitate the organization of work through unified view schedules, project deadlines and task lists, easy to manage and administer the whole team. The platform also offers the ability to sync tasks with Microsoft Project and Outlook.

4 – Quickly find what you need
SharePoint 2013 includes the Fast Search Server power in search platform, thereby obtaining quick results. It also offers a customized search experience with which you can adjust and get more accurate and relevant results.

5-Maximum productivity for working with files
The integration of Skydrive cloud services with SharePoint professional level, make it very easy to share documents across all devices. With drag and drop functionality you can store, sync, share and collaborate in a way as simple as drag and drop.

Also, pro Skydrive lets you work with files in situations where you do not own internet connection.

See all the benefits that SharePoint can bring to your business

The success of Yammer

As you know, Yammer is an enterprise social network designed for employees to communicate and collaborate better with each other. Proof of its success are the figures showing the growth and acceptance of the social network from the companies:

• Registered users have increased by 55% to nearly 8 million.
• The user activity (measured by posts, groups and files) doubled
• The paid subscriptions have grown by over 200% year on year.

Roadmap established by Microsoft to integrate Yammer with Office 365

Phase 1-Basic Integration
Since early this month, Office 365 customers can replace the newsfeed (newsfeed) SharePoint Online by Yammer. This new capability enhances the social experience that SharePoint provides, somewhat limited and that many organizations could be insufficient.

Microsoft provides a useful guide on how to make the change you can check here

Phase 2 – deeper connections
During the fall Microsoft will release a new update that will allow deeper integration with social network:

• Single sign for both products as well as adding the link to Yammer in the Management Portal Office 365 and the navigation bar.
• Capabilities to edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint from the browser using Office Web Apps.
• Translation of messages and conversations in real time with the machine translation system, Microsoft translator covering 39 languages

Phase 3-Connected Experiences
Microsoft will continue to work on new social improvements, which will be announced as we move into 2014, and we aim to make communication tool Yammer main company. To give you an idea of ​​the future plans of Yammer, here are some of the projects currently in development:

• SharePoint Search Integration: Ability to search Yammer talks
• Yammer messaging enhancements: Improved Yammer’s user experience by adding the ability to send messages to multiple groups at once.
• Integration with Exchange Online: Microsoft works to help you use Yammer and electronic mail together. You can monitor a subject of Yammer, reply to messages and participate in discussions via email.
• Integration with Lync Online. Capabilities instant messaging, voice and video.
• External communication. Improved messaging infrastructure to facilitate the addition of users outside the company Yammer conversations.
• Mobile applications. Phones and devices are a means to use Yammer, indeed Microsoft announced in early June a free application of RSS to users of Yammer, ready for download in the Windows Store website. However, the company is working to improve the user experience in Windows 8, Ipad, Iphone and Android.

Should I make the switch to Yammer?

The first step of integration with Yammer is optional for customers. However, Microsoft suggests that we make the change with these words of Christophe Fiessinger, product marketing manager for the Microsoft Office division “Our recommendation is to use Yammer as it is our best bet at the office of the company and we are committed to make our social layer below all our products ”

In conclusion, Office 365 and Yammer will enable you to transform communication and collaboration of employees in your company, having the best and most innovative ideas in your organization. You bet!

With new reports of Office 365, you can have a more complete view of how your company uses Microsoft Online Services.
If you want to calculate the amount of spam that your company is getting, or how many mailboxes are not being used, now you can.

Working with reports
In the Reports section of the Administration Center Office 365, you will see all available reports grouped by categories. Each is composed of the following elements:

• Head Graphic: The user can interact with the main chart using filters listed on the page and view the data in different periods.
• Related Table: Provides the ability to view data in a table.
• Related Charts: Shows the graphs related to the selected category and can see a trend of the metric on which tracks.
• More Related Reports: Shows reports related to the selected category.

  

Below are the available reports for each of the categories:

Mail Reports
Reports on mailboxes. This category contains the following reports:

• Active and Inactive Mailboxes: This report shows the number of active and inactive mailboxes. A mailbox is considered active if the user visit at least once in the last 30 days.
• New and deleted mailboxes: Displays the number of active mailboxes, the number of new mailboxes and deleted.
• Groups new and deleted: Displays the number of new groups created and deleted.
• Use of mailboxes: Displays the total number of mailboxes, mailbox inactive mailboxes that exceed your storage quota and mailboxes that use less than 25% of its storage limit.
• Mailbox connection types: Displays the number of connections mailboxes grouped by type of connection (MAPI, OWA, EAS, EWS, IMAP and POP3).

Protection reports
These reports focus on the way that Exchange Online Protection protects users from all harmful elements.

• Mail received and sent: Shows the relevant correspondence depending on the type of traffic: 1-good messages that are not identified as malware, 2-Posts containing Malware, 3-messages that match at least one rule of the company and 4-messages that match at least one enterprise DLP policy.
• Spam: Displays the detected spam, grouped by type of spam filtering: (SMTP blocked IP blocked, content filtering).
• Malware received and sent: Shows the number of malware detections in the mail received and sent, before applying the action of Malware.
• Top Malware: Displays a list of the most frequently detected malware.

Transport Rules Reports
Transport rules allow you to apply messaging policies. Actions like redirect a message, messages copyright protection and reject or delete can be performed on messages that match the conditions specified by the managers of your company. The following reports show the summary of these rules:

• Rules identified in the email sent and received: Shows the number of transport rules on the relevant correspondence, grouped by severity.

DLP reports
Your company can set policies for data loss prevention (DLP) in order to prevent sensitive data is sent through email. The following reports contain a summary of the DLP policies identified in the email from your company.

• DLP Policies for mail received and sent: Shows the number of policies to prevent data loss (DLP) of the company, in the mail received and sent.
• DLP rules for mail received and sent: Shows the number of rules in data loss prevention (DLP) of the company, in the mail received and sent.

Lync Reports
To facilitate the usage monitoring being done on your company Lync, Office 365 offers the following reports.

• Instant messaging and audio sessions: Displays the number of instant messaging sessions and audio sessions.

• Sessions video transfer, application sharing and file: Shows the number of transfers.

• Instant messaging and audio conferencing / video: Displays the number of instant messaging sessions and conference sessions.

• Application sharing, web and telephone access in conference: Displays the number of application sharing, web and telephone access in conference.

The reports section is now available for customers who have the updated version of Office 365 and for new subscriptions.

Microsoft has designed the Enterprise plans for organizations with more than 250 users who require higher demand in performance, safety and advanced management capabilities. In this post I will detail their differences.

Office 365 Enterprise (K1)
Designed for employees who work on shifts, stores, or anyone using a shared team:

• Office Web Apps
• Email and calendars through Outlook web App. 1 Gb of storage
• Access to SharePoint Online
• Availability of Exchange ActiveSync for mobile devices

The price of this plan is € 3.30 per user/month.

Office 365 Enterprise (E1)
Designed for businesses that want to have email services, sharing documents, Conference, and other enterprise-level applications:

• Office Web Apps
• Full email with Exchange Online. 25 Gb of storage
• Sharing documents and collaboration with SharePoint Online
• Intranet site for your equipment: up to 3000 subsites
• Instant Messaging and video conferencing in HD with Lync Online

The price of this plan is € 6.50 per user/month.

Office 365 Enterprise (E3)
Designed for large enterprises who want all the features included in medium business plan along with advanced business services:

• Office Professional Plus (possibility to install it in 5 different devices by user)
• Office Web Apps
• Full email with Exchange Online. 25 Gb of storage
• Advanced email features: storage and related legal data retention capabilities, as well as unlimited storage
• eDiscovery Center: search centralized between SharePoint sites and Exchange mailboxes
• Management of rights (Right Managments) and legal custody
• Sharing documents and collaboration with SharePoint Online
• Advanced business intelligence
• Intranet site for your equipment: up to 3000 subsites
• Instant Messaging and video conferencing in HD with Lync Online
• Implementing Push, it administrators have the ability to customize and launch the installation by using deployment tools.

 The price of this plan is € 19/user/month.

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If you know the storage service personal cloud SkyDrive intended for the final consumer, with the version Pro you will feel at home. SkyDrive Pro is the service of storage of documents provided by the organizations to their employees; a client application that is offered both in local implementations of Office 2013 plans in Office 365 Cloud version and which can connect with both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013, the new version of the collaboration platform.
SkyDrive Pro allows users to synchronize their working papers of SharePoint and have them offline when they are out of the Office from multiple devices, including mobile cloud and tablets.

Working with documents on SkyDrive Pro is very simple: you can edit, synchronize, share, and collaborate in a simple and intuitive way.

You can open a file in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or One Note directly from the browser.

SkyDrive Pro replaces SharePoint WorkSpace
Previous versions of SharePoint relied on a workspace called WorkSpace, a client application of SharePoint 2010 that enabled synchronization in real-time of the contents of desks with documents and SharePoint lists. Now, the version of SharePoint 2013 depends on SkyDrive Pro that offers greater synchronization of documents. The employees of your company can easily synchronize the contents online and offline with a SharePoint site and benefit from the performance of SharePoint as the co-authoring of documents between users, versioning and workflows.
For those who have used Workspace, the simplicity of the sync with SkyDrive Pro is a breakthrough and one reason to use SharePoint 2013 as a document management system.

Ultimately, SkyDrive Pro is a very complete product that was good of itself in its home version.