Collaborative tools

Letsignit solution facilitates email signature management at Softway Medical

The Letsignit solution, of which Blue Soft Empower is a partner, allows to create and manage the email signatures of an organization's staff through a simple and intuitive interface. The company Softway Medical has adopted it and gives us its feedback. Anthony Brasdefer, its information systems manager, in charge of the company's IT assets as well as the use and evolution of business tools, answered our questions. How did the need for a solution like Letsignit emerge and what does it allow you to do concretely? Anthony Brasdefer. Initially, it was a need of the communication department which wanted to better communicate with our customers through signatures. Letsignit allows us to deploy and centralize the management of the company's signatures, but also to set up banners for both internal communication, but also with our customers. The Letsignit solution has also allowed us to modulate communications according to the profile of the people in the company, i.e. I will communicate in a different way than other departments with our customers. What has Letsignit changed in Softway Medical's processes and daily life? AB. Letsignit has made it possible to simplify, on a daily basis, [...]

2024-01-09T15:55:05+01:00December 8, 2021|Uncategorized|0 comment

The changing needs of CIOs by our Microsoft solutions specialist

In a constantly changing IT market, the needs of IT departments are becoming increasingly complex. Numerous Microsoft solutions are available, which can be adapted to each of the problems encountered by organizations. Alexandre Lamotte and Patrick Dubois, co-directors of Blue Soft Empower , our subsidiary specialized in Microsoft solutions, tell us more. The evolution of the stakes in the IT market and the needs of the IT department Organizations today have two main needs. First and foremost, organizations are looking to implement hybrid work to allow company employees to work remotely and on site. For this purpose, Teams and Viva solutions allow companies to meet their requirements. They also focus on the dimensioning of the IS to meet new business needs and the perpetual renewal of services and infrastructure solutions. In this case, it is cloud Azure that will enable organizations to meet their challenges. Despite the difficulty of predicting tomorrow's challenges, four fundamental points have been observed. First of all, data processing and business process automation for which Power Platform and artificial intelligence are adapted. We also find the agility needed in a context of merger and acquisition for which the 3 Microsoft clouds are perfectly suited. At the heart of the news and [...]

2024-01-10T14:49:33+01:00September28, 2021|Digital, The Group|0 comment

Top 5 benefits of Microsoft's Azure DevOps

What are the benefits of working with Azure DevOps? More and more developer and operations teams are embracing the DevOps culture to address the duality between developers and operations. Today, 37% of enterprises are reported to have already implemented DevOps projects (Trend Micro, 2019), and Azure DevOps and its assets are starting to set the standard for the field. However, the number of tools labeled "DevOps" is growing by the day (see our article on must-have DevOps tools) and it is easy to get lost in the jungle of solutions. In this jungle, some solutions like Azure DevOps stand out. There are many reasons for this, so we have summarized the strengths of Azure DevOps in 5 main advantages. 1. The security offered by Azure DevOps The Azure environment makes security its priority by following the standard security models to the letter: detect, assess, diagnose, stabilize, close. This is coupled with rigorous cybersecurity monitoring, earning Microsoft Azure an impressive array of international compliances. 2. Collaboration is the foundation of Azure DevOps Azure DevOps makes sharing one of its key strengths. Achieving [...]

2024-03-11T16:17:32+01:003November2020|DevOps, Digital|0 comment

Collaborative work: How Blue Soft Empower supported its clients during the health crisis

During the health crisis and the confinement, remote collaborative work and the tools that facilitate it were the stars of the companies. Suddenly, all of us were behind our screens, and the need to facilitate exchanges and sharing could no longer be postponed. Teams looked for ways to ensure business continuity, whenever possible. For digital services companies, the period has been protean. For while digital is fully, naturally and culturally integrated into teams, the impact of containment on customers has been uneven. Where some have seen the urgency of certain projects and accelerated on the subjects, others have slowed down or stopped their activity. Our subsidiary Blue Soft Empower , a specialist in collaborative work and the implementation of Office 365 (the reference suite, now officially named "Microsoft 365"), has accompanied its customers during this delicate phase. Whether they are part of the private, public or hospital sector, they were able to rely on its responsiveness and resilience to get through this unprecedented period. A partnership with Microsoft that has proven its value in the implementation of collaborative work As soon as the containment was announced, [...]

2024-01-10T09:21:28+01:00July16, 2020|Digital, The Group|0 comment

Yammer vs Teams: complementary or competitors?

While Yammer, created in 2008, entered the Microsoft fold in 2012, the appearance of Teams in in 2017 has sort of reshuffled the deck. Until then, users had a primarily office use of the Office suite. And suddenly, we switch to a collaborative vision of work, which accelerates further with the health crisis, forcing the planet to remote collaboration. Those who already had a real use of Yammer (and who were not necessarily very numerous, in proportion to Office 365 users), wonder if it is not a bit duplicative. And Teams users have a hard time understanding why they should use Yammer as well. But on closer inspection, each of these two products has its own specificities and "rules of the game" to know in order to optimize their use. What is Yammer not? Yammer is not a project management tool, nor is it an instant messaging or collaboration platform. Yet, Yammer has features that could give the opposite impression: connection with Sharepoint, user groups, integrated chat... So what is Yammer? A social network, but confined to a few [...]

2024-03-11T11:34:16+01:00May 27, 2020|Digital|0 comment

Yammer community: 7 keys to engaging your employees

In the family of digital tools that facilitate collaboration, the corporate social network is a weapon of mass cohesion. Yammer is a long-standing player in this field, and its functionalities have been inspired by the best in social media. Yammer joined Microsoft in 2012, to integrate with the Office 365 suite and foster exchanges between teams. But teams may need a little help to get started and bring the network to life. That's why it's essential to animate your Yammer community. Without it, the network quickly loses interest. Here are some of our best practices for making your Yammer network the cement that holds your company together. See also our article comparing Yammer and Teams 1. Set up Yammer properly, with the right tools and features Before launching the big maneuvers and inviting all your colleagues to share posts on your corporate social network, you need to prepare the interface so that it's engaging. Here are a few parameters not to be overlooked if you want your community of collaborators to feel welcome on Yammer: Define a user-friendly name: "the company's Yammer" should not be the name [...].

2024-03-20T14:40:41+01:00April 20, 2020|Digital|0 comment

Collaborative work and telework: How to reconcile the two?

It is rather counter-intuitive to associate collaborative work and telework in the same expression. It's obviously easier to get a team to work together when you can be grouped together! But the Covid-19 pandemic has reshuffled the cards: forced to learn to work remotely, while continuing to manage projects in collaborative mode. Remote work is now going to be a must in most French companies. Those who were not used to teleworking are discovering the possibility, if not the advantages. If some companies are still reluctant to see their employees dispersed, some situations force them to develop new collaborative models. Rather than rejecting online collaboration even if it means finding yourself in the water, why not try to adopt this new project management? Blue Soft gives you the keys to tame remote work while keeping your team together. Collaborative work, even when telecommuting The current situation confirms it: remote work is the royal way, and sometimes the only way, to maintain the activity of the company, whatever the context. In some cases, working alone can be done as well.

2024-01-10T09:04:23+01:00April 14, 2020|Digital|0 comment

Collaborative platform: unsuspected advantages

A collaborative platform is the cornerstone of project management and collaborative work, it allows its deployment and expression. At Blue Soft, we use Office 365 and this platform is one of the most deployed among our customers, even in the world. As we know from experience, a collaborative platform offers many possibilities: saving time, structuring exchanges, centralizing information... To the point of becoming essential: 58% of large and medium-sized companies have adopted a "digital workplace". But much more than a facilitating tool, the platform actually accompanies you beyond the organization, on many subjects, and generates by ricochet advantages that you perhaps did not suspect at the launching of the project. Thanks to the collaborative platform, employees are happier A happy employee is a productive employee. This is what the Ipsos and KFE study revealed: 65% of employees believe that collaborative work improves team productivity. And a happy collaborator is not only someone who plays foosball during the break! Happiness in the workplace is achieved through other levers: More direct communication The development of horizontality [...]

2024-01-10T08:58:02+01:00February 12, 2020|Digital|0 comment

6 major technological trends for 2020

The coming year will mark a turning point in IT and large enterprises. Some technologies that have been talked about for a while will appear in a very operational way. 5G, Cloud, blockchain, collaborative work are no longer just buzzwords, they are coming to life. Let's take a quick look at these trends. Technology trend #1: 5G The year 2020 will be connected or not! The first projects based on 5G will finally see the light of day. Main advantages: bandwidths will be much faster and mobile networks more reliable. Far from being limited to improving the use of our smartphones, 5G will accelerate the development of Smart City projects, vehicles, connected and intelligent objects. Almost all industries and communities will be concerned by this evolution. Technological trend #2: The cloud distributed You knew the Cloud computing? Discover the Cloud distributed! The trend is towards decentralization. In 2020, the Cloud will extend outside its Data Centers. The expression "cloud distributed" translates a public cloud which distributes its services on several points of the planet. The services are delocalized, but the original cloud retains responsibility for operation, updates, maintenance, and the [...]

2024-01-10T08:55:11+01:00January 21, 2020|Digital|0 comment

Microsoft Teams: 13 million users, No. 1 in enterprise messaging, ahead of Slack

This summer, Microsoft launched a small bomb in the world of enterprise instant messaging: its Teams platform, integrated with Office 365, attracts 13 million users daily. Another big surprise: Teams is now more popular than its competitor Slack. In just two years, the communication tool in the Office 365 suite has managed to win over so many users that it has become the most important instant communication channel. If we look at the weekly usage of Teams, Microsoft announces 19 million users. In terms of structure volume, the platform is used by 500,000 companies in 181 markets. Proud of this success, the Teams and Office 365 teams are not stopping there. Teams should soon be equipped with two new features: urgent notifications and information prioritization. Urgent notifications come in the form of short messages that are sent every two minutes to a computer or smartphone until they are acknowledged by the recipient. This feature is intended to be used particularly in environments where urgency is important, such as in hospitals. The second feature allows you to pin a message to your computer or smartphone.

2024-01-10T08:30:37+01:00August 19, 2019|Digital|0 comment
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