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4 Reasons Businesses Should Make the Move

Are you considering moving to the cloud? As global competition heats up and customers demand more innovative solutions, businesses are adopting cloud services at an increasing pace. What if you could lower your costs, increase productivity and enhance security? Explore this eBook to discover four reasons small businesses should make the move. View: 4 Reasons Businesses Should Make the Move

Enhance Security with Windows and Office

According to the World Trade Report, it takes hackers 4 minutes to get into servers through email attacks. And that it takes an average of 286 days to detect a security breach and an additional 80 days to repair the damage. Enhance your security and go modern with Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Business. Check out this infographic for more industry trends and see how you can protect your company against external threats and leaks with Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Business security and compliance tools built into your devices. Don't let hackers access your data. Contact us at Metisc to #GetModern today! View: Enhance Security with Windows and Office

A new generation of communication tools for a new generation of Alcoa workers

At the Alcoa plant in the distant coastal town of Fjardaal, Iceland, employees relied on a magnetic board to assign and trade shifts, while standard email was used to communicate critical information from one shift to the next—both of which required people to be physically present to retrieve messages or confirm changes in shift assignments. The adoption of Microsoft Teams transformed these otherwise manual tasks into a workflow better suited to a new generation of digitally savvy Alcoa employees who all carry smartphones. With Teams, company-wide announcements are now made with the confidence that everyone will see them via their devices, regardless of location, while operational information is quickly disseminated and passed along from one shift to the next to improve processes, safety, and efficiency. Watch the video to see how Teams is delivering the future of communication to a new generation of Alcoa plant personnel.

Helping Small Businesses Protect Their Greatest Asset--Their Data

Knowing your customer data is secure can free you up to do what you do best--and put your focus on customers and employees. That's where the right tools and tech come in. Support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 is ending, and it's critical to ensure you not only have the most productive experience, but also the most secure. Work from anywhere, whenever, on a protected modern device. Read the blog and learn more about three small businesses that use Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Business to help grow their businesses and remain secure. Read More...

Customer Story: Think Up Consulting | Most Secure

With its global client base increasing, Think Up Consulting needed to improve its remote working capabilities and enhance security. The company adopted Microsoft Teams to securely accommodate remote employees. And with Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Business, Think Up unites its entire team. All employee devices are automatically updated with advanced-level security features, so Think Up can seamlessly deliver the top-notch service their customers expect and trust.

PizzaExpress feeds digital transformation with Office 365

For PizzaExpress, being open for business means more than a hot oven and fresh ingredients. It's about delivering exceptional experiences through a customer-centric, data-driven approach backed by world-class cloud technology from Microsoft. PizzaExpress adopted a cloud-first approach for its 570 restaurants in the UK, Ireland, Middle East, India and the Far East, including China. Siobhan Fagan, IT Director at PizzaExpress explains, "We saw moving to Office 365 as an opportunity to remove cost, increase security and kind of make everything easier to manage. We're now in one instance of Office 365 across the globe." Read More...

The intersection of art and science

Intersecting art and science creates a universe of possibility to make the invisible visible. Asta Roseway, Microsoft Principal Research Designer/Fusionist, shares her thoughts on fusing art, technology and science to address crucial issues like climate change, pollution exposure, mental health and other challenges currently facing society. Asta shares about innovative creations such as speaking to plants with red light and blue light, wind chimes that create different sounds based on air quality and Ada, the new living architecture installment at Microsoft Campus designed by Jenny Sabin.