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Time flies! As soon as BUILD conference 2015 started it’s over now. Martina and I arrived a week ago in California and spent some days in Silicon valley (working there…) and north of San Francisco before attending the conference. BUILD, the 5th This was our 4th BUILD. In total there were five BUILD conferences (after Microsoft paused and renamed the PDC and started with Windows 8): The first one was in 2011 in Los Angeles, Anaheim, followed 2012 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, we skipped 2013 in San Fran, Moscone Center, and have been at the last BUILD 2014 and now in 2015, also in the same location. So we have some experience with this Developer Conference. ...

Are working with Office 365 and are you attending Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago in some days? Here’s your chance to engage six Office 365 MVP’s in an open Q&A panel discussion, see Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel! See this astonishing promotion video here! Office365 MVP experts panel at Microsoft Ignite including @S_McNeill, @DarrellCWebster, @magrom, @JPBruzzese, @jseghers and @bretthill. Many thanks to @bretthill for this great video cut! Update: Video-URL links changed to YouTube. CU there at the Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel!

On infographicportal.com there’s a nice representation how fast the mobile market is growing – and how important this market is and will be in near future. See the article here: https://www.infographicportal.com/state-mobile-2015/ Here are some statements out of the graphics: “There are 1.2 billion mobile users today. By 2018 – in 3 years – that number will be nearly 5 billion.” “Mobile payments are increasing annually by 48%.” “By 2017, 87% of connected devices will be Tables and Smartphones.” ...

Great saying by @csdhall, valued MVP-colleague and Yoga Guru, found in Facebook: “If you think you are living in the age of digital media, you are wrong. Infact, you are living digital media.”

We at atwork developed a new solution named Delegate365. Delegate365 is a Web-based portal for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365. For information about our product see our product website https://delegate365.com. We are using Google AdWords which helps us to successfully advertise the product for the target markets. Google asked us if we want to share our marketing story for Delegate365 on their https://customers.withgoogle.com portal. Good for our product promotion and for Google. So here it is! ...

Today´s world offers a lot of ways to communicate. One one hand there are tools (or “Apps”) for nearly everything and on the other side users can get confused sometimes too choose the right way or the correct tool to reach the desired group(s). Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom took a look into the current tools in the Microsoft cloud world to bring light into the dark and wrote an overview article in the Yammer Blog: ...

Willkommen beim dritten Global Azure Bootcamp! Am Samstag, dem 25. April 2015, findet dieses Event in Dutzenden Orten weltweit statt. Das Event wird von der Community für die Community durchgeführt und ist kostenlos. In Österreich findet das Global Azure Bootcamp wieder in der HTBLA Leonding in Oberösterreich statt. Alle Details und Anmeldung unter https://austriaazurebootcamp2015.eventday.com. Das erste erste Global Windows Azure Bootcamp fand an mehr als 90 Orten rund um die Welt statt. Im März 2014 waren es bereits 136 Veranstaltungsorte – hier wurde unter anderem eine riesige globale Computer-Farm erstellt. In Österreich waren es letztes Jahr bereits fast 70 Teilnehmer, die sich über Azure Grundlagen und Azure Deep Dives informieren konnten. ...

Von 9. bis 11. März fand in Erding bei München die SharePoint Konferenz für Developer von ppEDV statt. Wir von atwork waren mit zwei Sessions dabei (siehe Agenda). Die Präsentationen sind auf SlideShare.net verfügbar. Update 15.03.: Die Samples können direkt hier heruntergeladen werden. Es ist ein Rebuild erforderlich, damit alle NuGet Packages geladen werden und das Anpassen der .config-Dateien. BI-System mit OData und SharePoint Online (Martina Grom & Toni Pohl) Samples: SPKonf-ODataSample.zip SPKonf-SharePointAppEventDemoSample.zip ...

SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin (sharegate.com/blog) asked some of his colleagues about their opinions and thoughts of Microsoft Office 365. Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom was among them. Here´s the result: 20 MVPs Share Their Thoughts on Office 365 …a lot of well known experts in the IT industry! Here´s Martina´s statement: Martina Grom from atwork Martina is head of consulting and project development. @magrom Which feature(s) of Office 365 you think will have the biggest impact in 2015? And why? Office 365 has so many features, that’s really hard to decide. Let’s name some of them which I think are important: ...

Heute, am 8. März, ist weltweiter “Tag der Frau” (siehe WIkipedia). Eine gute Gelegenheit, das Interview “IT-Expertinnen im Interview – Was Frauen in der Technik heute beschäftigt” mit unserer Geschäftsführerin Martina Grom (atwork.at) und Österreichs Digital Champion Meral Akin-Hecke (werdedigital.at) zu veröffentlichen. Das Interview führte Johanna Kriks von textlust.at. IT-Expertinnen im Interview Was Frauen in der Technik heute beschäftigt: Martina Grom und Meral Akin-Hecke zeigen, wie unterschiedlich Karrierepfade in der IT für Frauen aussehen können. Was sie sich für die Zukunft wünschen, haben wir in einem Interview erfragt. ...