Windows 8 transforms and streamlines commercial labor for Damm Group
Madrid - 28 October, 2013- Damm Group, the Spanish Beer Company takes a definitive step in improving its workforce productivity by providing Windows 8 tablets. Its employees are now able to work from...
View ArticleA Sustainable City Is A Smart City—And It’s Built By Local Businesses
Although cities account for only 2 percent of Earth’s surface area, they represent more than 80 percent of the world’s combined GDP. For some government officials and agencies, urbanization is...
View ArticleISS Netherlands. Transforming the Cleaning Business with Microsoft Technology
ISS Netherlands wanted to improve its competitiveness in a crowded facilities services market. With the help of Microsoft technology including Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365, the company has...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: The 2014 EU Parliamentary Elections Results Website puts its...
The strategic partnership with Scytl continues to bear fruit for both of organizations with their complimentary technology being leveraged in leading election management solutions across the...
View ArticleStatzup – Statistics Based Fantasy Football!
With a team comprised of childhood friends, Statzupwas founded in December 2012. These football and sports entuthiasts specialize in fantasy football and so far they have developed games where football...
View ArticleMicrosoft and salesforce.com announce global, strategic partnership
Industry leaders to deliver new solutions and mobile experiences for mutual customers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff to host conference call for press and...
View ArticleEuropean institutions use technology to foster culture and heritage
Culture and technology are new allies. By working together, technology breaks down barriers of distance encouraging European cultural cooperation boosting tourism and stimulating local economies.An...
View ArticleThe power of 'and'
A little over a year ago, we announced the general availability of Azure Infrastructure Services. Since that time, we helped customers realize the power of “and” with Infrastructure Services and...
View ArticleResearch reveals Europe’s SME workers expecting busy year ahead and looking...
As Europeans are already well aware, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent 99 percent of all businesses, and are vital to our economy (European Commission, 2013). As the region looks set to...
View ArticleGreek cosmetics company breaks down barriers to international expansion with...
One of the biggest challenges for popular cosmetics maker KORRES is communicating with thousands of suppliers and customers around the globe. Keeping track of the echinacea, sage, bay laurel, yogurt,...
View ArticleZattoo TV launches Live TV Universal Windows App
While consumers are enjoying the latest technologies available right now, developers are busy creating what’s next. Throughout Microsoft’s history, development partners have been essential to our...
View ArticleCorinth is building a next generation digital teaching aid. Get Corinth...
The key principle behind Corinth’s educational solutions is harnessing the power of images which users can touch with their own hands. Our Corinth Micro series of visual learning apps from last year,...
View ArticleAmerican International School of Bucharest chooses Office 365 over Google...
Imagine a world in which students can quickly join a videoconference to collaborate on a school project, instant message (IM) their teacher to obtain clarification on a homework assignment, or connect...
View ArticleCecabank and Microsoft incorporate latest digital signature technology for...
Mobile devices are key to their new commercial strategy and office model.Cecabank and Microsoft have created capture technology for digital client signatures on mobile devices (Sistema de Firma...
View ArticlePrimagaz Benelux fuels call center excellence with Microsoft Lync
One of the top challenges of running a call center is handling the busy times when call volumes are higher than normal. For Primagaz, a propane provider to more than 30,000 businesses and consumers in...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Microsoft joins startup Europe partnership to support growth...
Venice, 8 July 2014— Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) announced that Microsoft has joined this pan-European accelerator to help the best European startups transform into “scaleups”able to break the...
View ArticleIntale – Digitalizing Retail
Success stories from Greece are welcome news, and it is with pleasure that we would like to feature Intale as the July edition of European Cloud SME of the Month. Intale is using the cloud...
View ArticleBMW revamped its business. How about you?
Start your business engines! Today we bring you an interesting case from BMW. Get inspired to have a tech-makeover yourself by learning how a top-of-the class business revamped its game with...
View ArticleSecure on Azure: BT Global Services switches on Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute...
It’s not exactly as if the Cloud has floated onto the clear blue skies of IT from nowhere. The concept of IT services delivered from a centralised platform over the network is almost as old as the...
View ArticleSummary: Worldwide Partner Conference 2014
What Is WPC? The World Partner’s Conference is an annual, global convergence of Microsoft’s top partners, as they come together to network, drive business growth and identify new profitability...
View ArticleData Insights: The untapped opportunity for European businesses
Let’s consider this. Of the seven billion people on the planet, three billion are already connected to the internet, and this number is sure to rise at a rapid pace. Within this context of a mobile,...
View ArticleInnovative Educational Support at the University of Debrecen
Budapest, 08 September 2014– Microsoft provides cutting-edge cloud-based e-mail service, internal institutional e-mail addresses with 50 gigabytes of storage and 1 terabyte of personal storage space to...
View ArticleWatch how the Internet of Things is transforming the London Underground
The iconic London Underground is the world’s oldest underground railway, carrying over 1 billion passengers each year. If you’ve ever travelled on the Tube, you’ll know how complex and congested it can...
View ArticleFive steps to boosting SME competitiveness and productivity
It’s no secret that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the European economy. Representing 99% of businesses and an annual contribution to GDP of €3.39 trillion, the strong...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: The Carlsberg Group goes “GloCal” with Office 365
REDMOND, Wash.— Sept.16, 2014—JC Jacobsen founded his brewery more than 160 years ago to serve the Danish market. Recently the company has experienced tremendous growth, particularly within the past 14...
View ArticleBringing helicopter training into the 21st century
AgustaWestland, a world leading company in helicopter design and construction, faced a unique challenge when training its engineers and customers. Although its courses are renowned for their quality...
View ArticleWhy our partners are placing their bets on the cloud.
Once a year, Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) presents me with the opportunity to highlight some of our brightest partners from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and underscore our...
View ArticleFinnair takes to the cloud to empower employees while trimming costs by 15...
To improve customer service, increase employee effectiveness, and retain and recruit the best people, Finnair has adopted Microsoft Office 365. Employees use the cloud-based communication tools to work...
View ArticleBritish technology company raises the bar with new Intranet as a Service...
The BrightStarr team is proud to announce the launch of Unily; cloud Intranet as a Service, built on Office 365 and Windows Azure. This is a brand new cloud-based Intranet solution that enhances and...
View ArticleUniversal Windows apps get better with Windows 10
The announcement of the technical preview of Windows 10 has given the world a view of the future of Windows. Central to the announcement is the emphasis on the common user experience, unifying and...
View ArticleEquipped for success: Why the tools of the past won't build the SMEs of the...
For the millions of people working in small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across the region, having the right tech tools is essential for getting the job done and keeping customers satisfied....
View ArticlePublic-private partnerships for Europe’s SME's
Micro, small and medium-sized businesses are the stars of this week, as Europe is celebrating SME Week! Various events across Europe are discussing how to best encourage entrepreneurship, as well as...
View ArticleAnnouncing availability of new Office 365 plans for small and midsized...
It’s no secret that for small businesses, the right technology can mean the difference between merely surviving and fully thriving. Office 365 is transformational for businesses of all sizes, but...
View ArticleTrust: what’s it all about?
On October 9, I delivered a keynote about trust in the cloud at the Cybersecurity Expo 2014 event in London. I’ve been thinking about how to tackle a topic like ‘trust’ and how it applies to cloud...
View ArticleUnderstanding the drivers of cross-border e-commerce
The world is getting smaller. Fuelled by advances in broadband penetration, internet speeds and increasingly sophisticated e-commerce solutions, consumers' online behaviour is changing. No longer...
View ArticleTrust in the Cloud - Cybersecurity
Trust me, I’m a cloud vendor.I visited my sister and her family a while ago and somehow ended up playing a game with my seven year-old niece. I forget what it was called now, but the objective was to...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Microsoft delivers the industry’s complete cloud
SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 20, 2014 — Monday, at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella outlined how Microsoft is using Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics to deliver the...
View ArticleTackling Cybercrime: A proactive action against sophisticated criminals
Imagine negotiating an important business deal only to discover that the people sitting across the table from you already knew your bottom line because your company’s computer network had been hacked...
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