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Georgia State University tackles malware with Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

Today’s post was written by Ren Flot, chief information security officer and director of cyber security at Georgia State University. As the chief information security officer at Georgia State University, my job is focused on b…

OSB / SOA Suite 12c Domain Types Let me explain you some news about the domain types in 12c, since some of my colleagues were fiddling around with this. Due to the new quickstart installer for SOA Suite and OSB 12c there are more…

CodeSOD: Trimming the Fat

There are certain developers who don’t understand types . Frustrated, they fall back on the one data-type they understand- strings . Dates are hard, so put them in strings. Numbers aren’t hard, but they often exist in text boxes,…

I recently watched a video titled, " Why Is Modern Art So Bad? " One of points of the video was that for centuries, art improved because artists demanded of themselves that they meet the highest standards of excellence…

Merging intelligence with productivity—a demo tour of recent Office app updates

On today’s Microsoft Mechanics, we look at the latest in intelligent Office app experiences spanning PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook and the browser. Ben Walters presents how Office can bring in intelligence via the Microsoft Gr…

New to Office 365 in November—new collaboration capabilities and more

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. This month, we’re announcing several updates to the Office apps to help you easily and effectively collaborate with others. This includ…

Your data project is going to fail

I hate to be the bearer of bad news….but your data project is going to fail. Maybe not the one you’re working on today. Maybe not the one you’re starting next month. Heck, maybe not the one you don’t even know about yet…but at …

One of the many consequences of the social media explosion of the past decade is that it’s now much harder for companies to present a single face to the world and speak with one voice. The proliferation of channels mean that, no…

7 tips to make your content SEO friendly

Writing high quality articles for any reason can be difficult and stressful. You need to be coherent, grammatically correct, and get your message across to your audience in a convincing manner , which is no easy task. And when y…

Awful On Purpose

Studying his new work contract, Stewart felt like he'd found a golden ticket. After 2 long and tedious years in the local university's IT department, he was happy for any opportunity to escape that hellhole. TLA Technol…

How to Audit Corporate Culture and Reduce Conduct Risk

In the UK financial services sector, “conduct risk” is hard to define even though many people use the term confidently. This is in part because the Financial Conduct Authority (the UK’s financial regulator) hasn’t provided a sin…

Co-authored by Allison Cazalet Has the topic of personalization come up within your organization recently? Chances are that personalization not only comes up, it's also a foremost priority: 68% of the firms we surveyed in ou…

Register now for “Incubators: Innovation is not enough; you must execute” on Modern Workplace

You may have a billion-dollar idea, but without the proper execution it won’t be worth a cent. With incubators walking the fine line between risk and reward with their investments, creating an environment that encourages innovati…

Virtual communication with Office 2016 and Windows 10

Lead highly interactive remote meetings using voice, video and screen sharing. An online immersion session is not your typical online event. Each 90-minute interactive session starts with an online roundtable discussing your bu…

A deeper look at Skype for Business integration with iOS CallKit

We recently announced deeper integration of Skype for Business with iOS devices using Apple’s CallKit framework, which enables a better experience for Skype for Business calls on the iPhone. The CallKit API with iOS 10 enables Sk…

CodeSOD: Indentured

Speaking with developers, I’m always surprised to find a surprising percentage are surprised and baffled by the “Fluent API”. This object-oriented convention is based on the Builder Pattern, and involves call chaining to construc…

As part of an ongoing effort to keep you informed about our latest work, this blog post summarizes some recently published books, SEI technical reports, and webinars in cybersecurity engineering , performance and dependability , …

What is curated content? (hint) It’s not social sharing – free eBook

Curated content. The term has been used to cover many different things. Most marketers are familiar with the practice of sharing other people’s content on social networks, what we’ll refer to as social curated content. Curated…

Estimates, Forecasts, Projections

There is the misuse of the terms of statistics and probability in many domains. Politics being one. The #Noestimates advocates are another of the most prolific abusers of these terms. Here are the mathematical definitions. not t…