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Are you an MS Teams shop? We've got you Covered with Blameless Incident Resolution

We have an exciting announcement. Blameless is providing early access to our Microsoft Teams integration. SRE and engineering teams can now resolve incidents faster without leaving the comfort of their favorite messaging tool. With the Blameless incident resolution product, Microsoft Teams users can now reduce toil in routine incident response processes through automation, codify processes with checklists, and craft retrospectives with the ‘add to timeline’ command.

SCOM Connector for Microsoft Teams

The SCOM connector helps you to manage SCOM alerts by using a bi-directional connection between Microsoft Teams and SCOM. When a new SCOM alert is generated it will appear in a Microsoft Teams Channel, the members of the Microsoft Teams Channel can collaborate on resolving an alert by using all the collaborative tools available in Microsoft Teams. Because the alerts forwarded to Microsoft Teams are context sensitive, it is easy to have conversations and meetings in an alert thread. The forwarded alert in Microsoft Teams also contains a wealth of information like you would see in your Operations Manager Console. The great part is that you do not need to open SCOM to view performance data or update the status of an alert, this can be seamlessly done in the SCOM Connector. Want to give it a test run? Use the free version and experience what it is like to truly collaborate on solving issues in your IT environment.
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How to Monitor ALL of Microsoft 365

Only Exoprise provides full coverage for synthetic monitoring of the entire Microsoft 365 suite. The use of 8-10 different synthetic sensors per site provides customers and prospects with an ideal start. These site locations may include corporate headquarters, branch offices, or work from home settings with knowledge workers. Exoprise effectively monitors the health, availability, and performance of applications such as Azure AD, Exchange Online, Teams, Yammer, OneDrive, Outlook, Portal, etc. via synthetic sensors and captures real-time metric data in CloudReady.

Improve Business Productivity

In the past year, Microsoft Teams has become one of the top videoconferencing and telecommunications platforms that have helped keep businesses productive throughout this global pandemic. Pivoting to remote/hybrid work environments in the long term is more easily achieved with a service like Microsoft Teams, which makes ensuring and maintaining optimal service on your end that much more important. Behold the key to help improve business productivity and optimize your Teams performance.

Exoprise Delivers Resilient Digital Experience and Microsoft 365 Visibility to BCD Travel

Founded in 2005 and headquartered in the Netherlands, BCD Travel is a provider of global corporate travel management with offices in more than 100 countries. The company simplifies the complexity of business travel and drives savings for travel and procurement partners. The company's IT department has hundreds of employees worldwide with expertise in managing and supporting infrastructure across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Integrating AppSignal With Microsoft Teams

We’re constantly looking for interesting integrations for our performance incidents, exception incidents, anomaly detection and uptime monitoring notifications, and our latest addition is an integration for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is a hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365. It integrates people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective.

How Does Digital Experience Monitoring Improve Productivity

Optimizing the digital experience monitoring (DEM) strategy should be a priority for businesses. According to Forrester, the five principles to optimize end-user experience management are 1. Holistic 2. Workflow-centric 3. Feedback-driven 4. Automated and 5. Quantified. Exoprise offers businesses a 360 degree DEM solution for cloud, network, and workspace digital transformation. The better together monitoring strategy combines real user and synthetic monitoring to deliver actionable insights to IT for SaaS applications whether consumed from home or office. With complete coverage for ALL of Office 365 cloud productivity applications and crowd-sourced benchmarks, Exoprise leads the way to ensure high productivity for the remote workforce.

How to Benchmark SaaS Performance for reducing MTTR

Exoprise CloudReady effectively benchmarks SaaS application and network capacity performance through the power of crowd intelligence. This unique approach covers a variety of useful metrics for IT administrators such as Network RTT, Audio Jitter, SharePoint Health, Server Latency, Login Times, etc. Combining application monitoring and end-to-end network diagnostics with the power of crowd-sourced data analytics provides complete visibility into business-critical cloud services as well as insights into the health of the Internet. Reduce MTTR and accelerate troubleshooting during outages by instantly finding bottlenecks in the service delivery chain.

Best Practices to Improve Digital Experience Monitoring

Businesses need best practices and implementation strategies to improve the end-user experience for their employees. By combining synthetics and real user monitoring, IT can deliver a seamless Microsoft 365 and SaaS application experience. As work anywhere becomes a dominant reality, employee productivity and technology empowerment will be critical goals to measure. Ultimately, business leaders will need to determine key processes and workflows that need effective monitoring. Dedicating specific staff resources to digital workplace experience will impact end-user productivity.