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Learn how to bring the limitless scale, powerful insights, unified experience, and cost-efficiency of Azure Synapse Analytics to your organization. 

Get a practical, hands-on introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics in Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure. Discover how to drive deep insights from all your data and apply machine learning models to intelligent apps through step-by-step guidance and detailed use cases.

Explore how to work with a fully managed, integrated data analytics service that blends data warehousing, data integration, and big data processing with accelerated time to insight into a single service. 

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The Odigo Group, located on scenic Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound, is just a ferry ride away from the Greater Seattle area. This bustling small business is situated amidst clean water, fresh air, driftwood-lined beaches, and towering trees.

Its founders began their work in the marketing industry when agencies were lined with floor-to-ceiling file cabinets packed with papers and files. But advances in technology have helped them grow a global business with minimal travel or environmental impact. These days, they store, manage, and deliver all their contracts digitally. Together with DocuSign, The Odigo Group runs a paperless business.

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Moving to the cloud is crucial for today’s businesses to get the most out of digital transformation. However, the increased integration of mobile and cloud technologies creates a higher risk for data to be stolen or compromised. This at first led enterprises to dedicate an increasing number of resources to IT security in an effort to keep their organization safe from evolving threats, which led to over-sized departments and snowballing IT maintenance costs. Thankfully, the cloud has evolved to become businesses’ greatest tool for reducing cyberattacks and has allowed them to enable more agile IT departments while keeping their information more secure than ever.

In this infographic, you’ll learn about Microsoft 365 E5’s comprehensive approach to security and how it empowers organizations by giving them complete control and oversight of their enterprise data.

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This article from Entrepreneur, highlights five ways remote workers can be more efficient at home. Tips to optimize time away from the office include establishing a routine, determining priorities, eliminating distractions, and more.

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This infographic details the Microsoft philosophy toward responsible and ethical AI through a set of core principles. These principles include maximizing efficiencies without destroying the dignity of people and guarding against bias. It additionally, it advocates for accountability against intended harm, transparency, privacy, and design that assists humanity.

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Connect, keep up, and tackle every task with Surface Go 2, the perfectly portable PC with a new, bigger 10.5″ touchscreen, plus 1080p HD cameras.

Equipped for government use with Kensington BlackBelt Rugged Case with Integrated CAC Reader, and military-grade drop protection or the IOGEAR Smart Card Reader Hub for Surface. These FIPS 201-compliant smart card readers provide a secure connection to your network.

Whether public or private, today’s organizations must adapt to an online and mobile-first world. This means investing in scalable solutions that guarantee ROI by increasing productivity and achieving widespread adoption. Furthermore, it also involves ensuring that all their applications are flexible enough to integrate new features or updates, and that their data remains secure across every touchpoint.

Subscribe now to learn how you can leverage the productivity and security features of Microsoft 365 to create a more resilient, cloud-first business.

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Microsoft is improving the Windows Virtual Desktop management experience, Teams, and more. Microsoft continues to make changes to improve the overall Windows Virtual Desktop experience for users—those working remotely and in-office. Check out the new features and what’s next for Windows Virtual Desktop here.

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By their very nature, nonprofit organizations must constantly find ways to do more with less. Moving your technology workloads to the cloud can help you accomplish that while accelerating innovation and enhancing security. Download the e-book “Enterprise Cloud Strategy for Nonprofits” to learn how using Azure cloud services can help make your organization more productive, innovative, and flexible, and help you drive greater societal impact.

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Attackers will cross multiple domains, such as email, identity, endpoints, and applications, to find the point of least resistance. Today’s defense solutions have been designed to protect, detect, and block threats for each domain separately, allowing attackers to exploit the seams and threshold differences between solutions—leaving the organization vulnerable to attack.  Microsoft  Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built in intelligence and automation. Access this article to learn more.

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