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From Chaos to Clarity: Automating Business Processes with Power Automate

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Automating Business Processes

Organizations have largely adopted a digital-first model. Manual processes are more than just inefficient; they’re a barrier to the growth and success of a business. Whether it’s hunting down approvals, managing repetitive data entry, or working with (annoying) disconnected systems, these tasks drain productivity and increase the chance of risk. Fortunately, Microsoft Power Automate offers a powerful solution to bring order to this chaos by automating business processes.  What is Power Automate?  Power Automate is Microsoft’s low-code automation platform that allows users to create workflows between apps and services. It can help streamline repetitive tasks, reduce human error, and free up time for work that can position your organization better … Read more

Attributes of a Well-Designed Microsoft Entra Tenant

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Microsoft Entra Tenant

Having a well-designed Microsoft Entra Tenant is essential. It ensures your organization is set up for robust security, compliance, and operational efficiency. Implementing strong authentication methods and conditional access policies protects sensitive data from unauthorized access.   A thoughtfully structured tenant helps you meet regulatory and compliance requirements, which is crucial for industries with strict data protection standards. It also helps with scalability and allows the organization to grow seamlessly without the need for significant reconfiguration.   A well-organized tenant also simplifies administrative tasks, reducing the risk of human errors and enhancing overall productivity. It also provides a positive user experience by providing clear and consistent access to resources, which improves collaboration … Read more

Exploring Your Microsoft 365 Environment  

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Microsoft 365 Environment

Crafting your organization’s digital transformation with Microsoft 365 cloud computing requires a solid and well-thought-out foundation. A strong foundation allows an organization’s workers to be productive, collaborate, perform better, and maintain privacy, compliance, and security. Correctly configurating your organization’s Microsoft 365 subscription and Microsoft Entra tenant provides that foundation, which is essential to make the most out of your Microsoft 365 environment.   Microsoft 365 Environment Subscriptions and Plans  Microsoft 365 subscriptions plans and subscriptions are not the same thing and it’s important to make that distinction.  With Microsoft 365, a plan typically refers to a specific set of features and services included in your subscription. Microsoft offers various plans or … Read more

New Application Development Projects Enhance Resource Management 

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A telecommunications organization contacted Imaginet for assistance on 2 new application development projects. The first was a portfolio tracker, and the second was an office furniture ordering application.    Portfolio Tracker    The portfolio tracker we built for our client tracks and manages the various budgets they have across different departments. Our client has several districts and district managers, and they needed a way to track budgets across these districts and departments. Another aspect of the portfolio tracker is managing tech deployments within the organization. For example, if a boardroom needs a new projector (or other tech) they’ll go through a process to request the needed technology. Our tool allows for the … Read more

Data Collection Upgrade Reduces Technical Debt & Modernizes Data Reports

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A well-known consumer packaged goods (CPG) company specializing in pet food asked Imaginet to perform maintenance on their existing data collection processes. We work in a staff augmentation role for this client and do ongoing work for them. Their data departments are divided into different business areas (we will refer to them as teams). On this project, we were working with two of their teams. Both teams required general maintenance and updates to their data collection tools – essentially a data collection upgrade. Team 1: Their primary focus is collecting and processing data about pet foods and products (nutritional claims they make, calories, ingredients, product history, etc.). This process to … Read more

Power BI Data Model Builds Better and More Accurate Reports

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A major Canadian University had contacted Imaginet because they needed reports built on top of an existing data warehouse. This is a long-term client of Imaginet’s, and we had previously built a data warehouse for another department within the organization. Much of the work for this project was about defining the semantic data model on top of the data warehouse and then building the reports on it.   Before they had a data warehouse, they had multiple applications that were reporting data separately. Since the implementation of the data warehouse, the client wanted to use Power BI as a standard enterprise reporting portal.   Our Solution  We started with creating views in … Read more

Microsoft Power Automate Workflows Increase Efficiency for User Creation, Onboarding, and Approvals

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An innovative biopharmaceutical organization that Imaginet had previously helped with a SharePoint Online build wanted to automate workflows that were causing a lot of back-and-forth communication and delays in their approval process. Without the necessary knowledge or time to complete the build, the client contacted Imaginet to support the project.   Using Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate, we created a workflow to assist with onboarding new hires and adding external user accounts to their Azure Active Directory environment. Microsoft PowerShell synchronizes the data between the SharePoint Online site and their local Azure Active Directory instance to allow communication between the different systems.  Once a record is created in SharePoint, either … Read more

Why Organizations Are Embracing the CLOUD: Benefits and Advantages

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cloud applications

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services such as software, databases, virtual machines, network, and storage over the internet. Before cloud services became widely available, organizations had their own computing services deployed on their own hardware on their own premises, often referred to as “on-prem”. Cloud computing has gained popularity in recent times with businesses exploring and adopting cloud technology to conduct their business. Three of the top cloud service providers include Microsoft Azure, Google, and Amazon Web Services. Cost, scaling, security, performance, and reliability are some of the reasons why organizations are choosing the cloud over on-prem. Cost Typically, it costs less to use cloud services as compared … Read more

An Introduction to Kubernetes

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Microsoft Cloud Azure

Get up to speed with Kubernetes, the popular open-source container orchestration platform. Learn how to deploy, manage, and scale applications in a cloud-native environment. Discover the benefits of Kubernetes and start building your own

Scaling Azure SQL databases up and down

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Azure

With Azure SQL, you can easily scale your databases up and down to meet your changing needs. Get the most out of your data with automated scaling, performance tuning, and cost optimization. Make sure your database is always running at its best with Azure SQL