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What is Microsoft Viva? Microsoft describes  Microsoft Viva as " the first employee experience platform to bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery, directly into the flow of people’s work. Viva is designed to help employees learn, grow and thrive, with new experiences that integrate with the productivity and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. " Microsoft Viva builds on the power of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 to unify the employee experience across four key areas — Engagement, Wellbeing, Learning and Knowledge — in an integrated experience that empowers people to be their best.  4 Main Pillars + Ally.io (coming soon) Pillar 1: Microsoft Viva Connections Viva Connections is a framework through which you can deliver your intranet within Microsoft Teams. Effectively this is the "Home App" in Teams. Employees can access internal communications and company resources like policies and benefits an

In the month of November 21 Microsoft announced new broadcast capabilities enhanced live captions, as well as some of the newly certified devices with Teams capabilities, and more. Here are some details: Integrated Communication Access Realtime Translation ART captioning in meetings You can now view captions coming from a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) provider within the Microsoft Teams meeting window instead of a secondary window. Follow along with what is being said without having to choose between the captions and presentation. Meeting organizers and participants can enable CART captions from their meeting options.  Learn more . Content from camera Content from camera in Teams enables intelligent capture which allows you to share content from physical whiteboards and documents in a high-quality way during meetings. You can use the camera in your laptop, a secondary USB webcam, or a document camera. Just like the experience available in Microsoft Teams Rooms, the i

The modern workplace his a data-centric world. Organisations are always increasing the amount of data they must collect, store, and analyse to inform critical business decisions and measure their organisation’s performance. As data becomes increasingly important, so do the tools needed to discover, manage, and track information in the absence of a data governance program. In the absence of a data governance program, the decisions made about key data systems are made by association staff who “own” the system. When there are different owners for systems (which is very common), the result is inconsistencies in data availability, collection, usability, integrity, and security. This instantly causes data quality problems. It also can negatively impact user experience if there is no integration or procedures to update the existing data within your environment. If you and your organisation find yourselves in such a predicament, Prometix highly recommends deploying an Azure Purview solution. 

Azure DevOps by Microsoft is one of the leading tools used for automating the code builds, automation tests and deployment to the desired environment. It also helps us in maintaining the version of the code using the Repos, and Continuous Integration (CI) methodology is achieved by allowing the developers to check in the code into the shared repository, which in turn gets verified by automated test cases and build sequence. Continuous Deployment (CD) is achieved through Azure Release Pipelines where the build packages (output of CI) are deployed to different environments like Stage, UAT or Production. The changes deployed can include the build or any configuration changes, error fixes etc. Before we get into Azure Pipelines lets look into Azure DevOps & core features.  What is Azure DevOps? Azure DevOps was launched in October 2018. It’s a Software as a Service platform that comprises a complete set of tools that not just provides the DevOps capabilities, but also provides the abil

Azure Logic Apps is a powerful Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering within Azure, where users can connect their organisation’s apps and services, develop and run automated workflows in the cloud, and automate existing workflows. Logic Apps have a simple user interface that does not require a single line of code, and the only prerequisite is having an Azure subscription.   For a better understanding of Azure Logic Apps, let us consider a business scenario, Taxi Booking Application. There are two main components in the application, the Vehicle Telematics application to collect real-time data of the cabs to provide necessary information for booking. The Booking application to facilitate cab booking by customers. The booking application is built using Azure Serverless resources like Web App, Service Bus Queue and Topic, Logic App, and Azure Function which is of focus now. Below is the Service map illustrating how these Azure Services are integrated together by Azure Logic Apps. Comparison