We live in a busy world with many varying priorities pulling us in many different directions. Whether at work or at home, people need to be efficient, to make the most of their time. Fortunately, technology can help. Or is it fortunate? Technology simultaneously makes our lives easier and challenging. It has accelerated the pace…
DALLAS, Texas – September 27, 2017 – Catapult, a leading IT consulting firm, announced today that it has been recognized as a “2017 Best Place to Work” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by the Dallas Business Journal. Catapult is consistently acknowledged as a leading employer in Texas, including recently being recognized as the 4th Best…
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend lately. Specifically for Office 365, I’ve seen too many organizations use Global Administrator accounts as their service accounts. This is a bad idea. We should not use Global Administrator accounts as service accounts. Office 365 is a great platform and likely requires a couple or more accounts to manage the…
In my previous post on defining Employee Engagement, I shared some of my experience in how I frame conversations on the topic. The term “engagement” means different things to different people, thus the perspectives I shared were purposefully designed to help me focus conversations. The term “strategy” is even more ambiguous, and as someone who…
The Rapid Application Platform for Digital Transformation Once upon a time, the system of Microsoft applications now called “Dynamics” was really only targeted at sales teams. It was literally Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and capable of very little else. Today, thanks to the technology that lies beneath what was once just CRM, Dynamics is becoming…
Oftentimes, the answer to a question is colored by one’s perspective. There are many perspectives on what employee engagement means to an organization. Some are presented from the perspective of recognition and morale, others from the perspective of corporate communications. My perspective has always been driven by the technology solutions people seek to help…
The most common objection to moving to the cloud is security – companies just aren’t ready to put their data in Azure. Azure stack is the answer to that problem. The ability to run the Azure services on premise is the first step for many companies in a move to a hybrid data center. In…
I previously wrote a blog on how to get a full license audit (including service status) for each user in Office 365. It is useful for substantial number of users, but not very practical when you want to check a single user quickly. I wrote a new script that will check a single user and…
Somewhere during the thousands of Business Intelligence demos I’ve done over the years, I realized that customers where confusing reporting and self-service BI. The reason is that reporting solutions started to have more and more high end visuals (think dashboards) and customers wanted more interaction with those dashboards. Therefore, I developed this simple strategy to…
When it comes to selecting an ideal cloud provider for your government agency, there’s a lot more than personal preference at stake. Your cloud platform’s ability to help meet airtight compliance and security standards can mean the difference between “mission accomplished” and utter chaos. Microsoft says it best: “Not all clouds are created equal.” They’ve…
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