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Microsoft Visual Studio, coupled with GitHub and Azure DevOps, can help you build, manage, and deploy your applications anywhere—with speed and security. Use your preferred languages, frameworks, and infrastructure, even your own datacenter and other clouds, to solve challenges large and small. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you learn more about using Azure DevOps with GitHub and Visual Studio from Microsoft to build your next great solution.
Toyota Motor North America Migrates 40,000 to Microsoft Teams in Three Weeks
Toyota Motor North America had been running Skype for Business on Azure. When Microsoft phased out those datacenters, TMNA moved to Teams. The switch to Teams Only included a superior audio conferencing and calling experience, including Teams Phone for external calls.
thyssenkrupp Steel Europe forges a modern way of working with Microsoft 365
thyssenkrupp Steel Europe quickly deployed its Company Communicator app for Microsoft Teams, developed using an open-source Teams app template from GitHub, to enable sharing of company news with employees and hosting of large virtual town hall events. This provided executives with the tools they needed to address employees directly and keep them connected when in-person events were not possible during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Engage employees, improve productivity, and build team cohesion
People feel less connected to their colleagues since moving to remote work. The solution? Create meetings that make everyone feel like equal participants—whether in the office, at home, or on the go. Remote attendees should not suffer from dropped audio or lo-fi, pixelated faces. Microsoft Teams Meetings, Teams Rooms, Surface Hub 2S, Teams webinar, Teams Platform, and Microsoft Endpoint Manager all serve to enhance employee engagement. Sign up to say connected—we'll help you better connect and create new experiences throughout your organization with Hybrid Meetings.
6 ways to kickstart DevSecOps
DevOps methodologies provide businesses with a faster and more efficient way to do code—and organizations are turning to DevSecOps as the solution to harden security and address compliance at the same time. Starting DevSecOps practices can be challenging, especially when working with siloed teams, or when there is reluctance to add security and compliance checks to the delivery pipelines—but we are here to help. Sign up to stay connected and download 6 ways to kickstart DevSecOps—and get started integrating security into your practices.
Low code vs. no code and the future of application development
Low code and no code platforms make application and software development accessible to businesses or projects that may not always need a full development team. The low code technology market is predicted to grow 23 percent globally in 2021—providing opportunities to save money and time.
Nebraska Furniture Mart embraces Microsoft 365 to work smarter
What do you do when faced with disparate solutions for hybrid work? Microsoft Teams creates the digital equivalent of the spontaneous communications that happen in an office setting, so employees feel connected, collaborative, and safe. Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM) implemented Microsoft Teams in their effort to streamline communication tools. The combination of Teams and a hybrid work policy expanded their recruiting area, drawing talent by offering leading-edge tools and a people-first culture. Consolidating on a single solution drives efficiency and collaboration, improving customer service—all while saving costs.
Improve observability, strengthen security, and proactively remediate vulnerabilities
There are DevOps tools for every phase of the app lifecycle. Use Azure to implement DevOps practices throughout application planning, development, delivery, and operations. By applying the right combination of DevOps technologies, culture, and processes, you can achieve continual software delivery and offer better value for your customers. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you learn more about using Azure DevOps with GitHub and Visual Studio from Microsoft.
Dow uses vision AI at the edge to boost employee safety and security with Azure
Dow is a leader in materials science, focused on delivering innovative and sustainable customer-centric solutions. An important priority for the chemical company is safety, and Microsoft Azure played a crucial role in enabling preventative leak detection with the goal of zero safety-related events at its facilities. The initial solution leverages Azure AI to analyze live video and uses an app to trigger notifications to the operator if it detects a possible leak. Azure Video Analyzer, coupled with Azure DevOps, provided a quick, low-latency, low-resource, and easily scalable solution. Machine learning ensures the model is continually refined, so it gets better with each interaction. Best of all, this model can be leveraged for other applications, such as detecting when employees aren't wearing proper PPE in industrial locations, and security monitoring.