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5 Sustainable IT Practices for Your SaaS Applications

With web browser-accessed applications reaching record levels, employees are now spending most of their productive work time inside a cavern of business web applications. These may be custom applications built by a company for specific business purposes, or commercial SaaS applications for important functions such as collaboration, workflow management, scheduling, communication, transactional business, single sign-on, development, service desk, CRM, HR, and others.

Azure, Microsoft 365, and the Monitoring Story

Learn how to make the Azure Monitor a valuable tool to monitor your Microsoft 365 subscription, including services such as Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and more. See how the Metric Explorer in Azure Monitor will work for you, including addressing custom metrics quickly. Understand how to display Log Analytics metric data in PowerBI Reports and Azure Monitor Workbooks. Join this educative and fun session about Azure and Microsoft 365, united into one magnificent monitoring solution.

How Martello's Microsoft 365 Solution Supports the Return to the Office

The global COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive and immediate shift to remote work which was bolstered by video conferencing telecommunication software such as Microsoft Teams. Although the world is still trying to heal (while simultaneously navigating new and evolving challenges) some organizations have started the process of having their employees return to work and explore new hybrid workforce environments.

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.

Validating Change in O365

Before introducing new systems like #O365, or changes, like moving to the #Cloud, IT teams know it’s best practice to run through ‘what if’ scenarios and benchmark #performance to assess the potential impact on #userexperience. However incredibly, many still choose to skip these steps. The #consequences mean more time spent #troubleshooting, reduced service quality, poor app response time and #unhappyusers. Imagine if you could validate change quickly, but in a simple way that avoids #risk and business #disruption.