The Shifts App that is part of Microsoft Teams offers a solid core of features to enable any type of team scheduling and time recording you need for your business. Best of all, if you have a Teams license, it's free to use.

The new Bing is here, promising to bring AI chat to your search results, following on the heels of the amazingly popular ChatGPT.

AI is everywhere right now, but just because ChatGPT is in the headlines, it doesn't mean it's the only AI tool to be thinking about. AI Builder gives you easy access to the capabilities of Azure Cognitive Services from Power Apps and Power Automate, allowing you to add powerful AI abilities to your apps and flows without the legwork of setting up Azure services or creating a custom connector to link into ChatGPT.

Every step of your business creates data, from customer records, to transaction logs, to the invoices you're paying. This can become a mountain disconnected data that you know is valuable but you have no idea how to practically leverage to answer the types of questions you have. With Power BI you can turn your data problem into advantage for your business by joining together disparate and disconnected data sources and carrying out basic visualization and analysis to help you understand better.

Whether you subscribe to Microsoft 365 Business Basic or you've opted for the top-tier Enterprise E5 license, your Microsoft 365 licensing is probably a significant component of your overall IT licensing spend. It makes sense to increase your return-on-investment (ROI) by maximizing the number of included features and products you use from those you are paying for. This can also have the added benefit of making your administration and management easier and cheaper, as instead of having to manage products across many different ecosystems, you can gain economies of scale by using Microsoft products with common management and security features.

The policies and procedures involved in running a business can be complex, taking sizeable employee handbooks, training courses, and reminder sheets to perform accurately. If you're trying to automate these processes using Power Automate, you need to be skilled in interpreting these business rules into steps you can convey simply and repeatably in your flows.

Are you looking to get started with Microsoft Bookings? In this 15-minute tutorial, we'll show you how to set up your account, add customers, and schedule appointments.

If you are considering, planning, or executing digital transformation projects in your business, then having the opportunity to reflect and think outside the box about broader issues that may have an impact will help you prioritize correctly and get your desired impact. In this video, we look at three current considerations relevant to the needs of many businesses as we look ahead to what may be accomplished in 2023 and beyond.