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At this year’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company’s focus was firmly on digital transformation. But what does that actually mean?

In a business context, transformation is when your business makes fundamental changes to its working practices, processes and infrastructure, in order to create better outcomes. Those outcomes could be smoother operations, better-engaged customers, more-empowered employees or even new products and services. Digital transformation is simply using the latest technology to get there.

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Travel back with us through two decades in business as a leading Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK, and discover twenty milestones that made CompanyNet the success it is today.

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All our free intranet guides in one handy place.

As part of our commitment to helping people understand modern intranets, we’ve been publishing a series of guides to thinking about, designing, deploying and looking after your intranet.

You can now check out all our free intranet guides below. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to be the first to know when we publish more handy stuff.

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If you want to ensure your intranet meets the needs of your users and your business, it’s vital to have a governance policy in place.

A governance policy helps everyone work towards the same goals, makes sure intranet content is kept relevant and searchable, and assigns responsibility for every page to a colleague. It can even give you the tools to resolve conflicts further down the line.

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When we were at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) earlier this month, one of the key announcement was the company’s new enterprise cloud service, Dynamics 365.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, spent a large chunk of his opening ‘vision keynote’ talking about the new service, so it’s clear that it forms a really vital part of their strategy for enterprise customers. But what is Dynamics 365, and what can it do for your business?

Satya Nadella talks Dynamics 365 at WPC 2016 – photo by Brian Douglas, our Business Development Manager

What is Dynamics 365?

Dynamics 365 combines Microsoft’s cloud tools for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) into one service, available on a simplified subscription model similar to Office 365.

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What’s the difference between an intranet, an extranet and a portal? The terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they have very different meanings.

What is an intranet?

An intranet is a private website, accessible only to staff of the organisation that runs it, designed to communicate and share knowledge more effectively across the business. A good intranet makes it a piece of cake for staff to find the information they need.

Intranets can be hosted ‘on-premise’ – on your own infrastructure and equipment, in which case you pay once for a perpetual licence for the software – or in the cloud, in which case you pay a monthly subscription to have it maintained remotely.

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We only have images of our website going back to 2000 – but, even so, they give a glimpse into the fast-changing world of the web.

2000-2004: Going green

Our website at the turn of the century might seem very basic (as well as being very green) – but that’s because this is the ‘No Shockwave’ version. Shockwave was the predecessor to Flash, enabling the development of dynamic, interactive websites with animation and sound. During this period, we built Shockwave-powered sites for some customers, including Historic Scotland.

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We were at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference last week in Toronto. Read on for an exclusive summary of where Microsoft is headed…

CompanyNet was in Toronto last week for Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Our Business Development Manager, Brian Douglas, and business tech journalist Bill Magee, met with other Microsoft partners, attended sessions on the future of Microsoft technologies, and reported back on what they found.

Day 1

Satya Nadella delivered his Vision Keynote, recognising Microsoft’s achievements in the last year, and setting out priorities for the next 12 months and beyond. The focus was on digital transformation in the cloud through engaging customers, empowering staff, optimising operations and transforming products.

This is great news for CompanyNet, where we are already well-placed to help our customers undergo a digital transformation. Our enterprise-ready software like Kira Cloud intranet for SharePoint is already giving businesses an easy way to get on board with a cloud-based vision of the future.

Satya also talked about Dynamics 365 as a new Microsoft service that embodies that vision, particularly for reinventing business processes.

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Business tech journalist Bill Magee reports from Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, where big changes are predicted to be afoot…

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