With Microsoft’s recent announcement about the end of the legacy SharePoint 2010 workflows, many organizations are now forced to rapidly replace their existing, business critical SharePoint workflows with a modern and robust solution. Although this sudden announcement creates an opportunity for companies to move away from their dated and retiring SharePoint 2010 / 2013 environment, […]
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Optimum is happy to announce new Microsoft Gold Partner Status
Optimum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the elite Certified Microsoft Gold Partner status, in Data Analytics, and Silver status in Application Development. Microsoft Gold-Certified Partners possess highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies as well as have best-in-class capabilities for deploying Microsoft business solutions. Optimum’s Gold competency was approved […]
Blockchain Business Cases For Your Organization
By now, you have probably heard that “blockchain is poised to revolutionize a broad range of industries” or “blockchain is the next Internet”. Like most leaders who participated in the Deloitte’s 2019 survey, you may also be trying to understand the blockchain technology better and find realistic and applicable usage for your industry and organization. […]
Roadmap to a Successful Office 365 Migration
Most companies are sold on the benefits of the cloud-based business, mobile access, increased team collaboration, and the power of the Office 365 products. However the planning and execution time and effort involved in the Office 365 migration is making them balk at the idea of actually going through this major switch. “More often than […]
Lessons Learned from a recent Smartsheet Implementation
Recently, Optimum was engaged by a leading Cybersecurity company seeking to streamline and automate their annual budgeting and resource planning process, making it a more real-time and collaborative process to capture the required information from various departments within the company. The client was under a tight deadline to collect information from over 70 departments and […]
Intelligent Workplace: Key to Developing a Culture of Employee Engagement
Intelligent Workplace: Key to Developing a Culture of Employee Engagement In an evolving digital workforce environment, and with the rapid pace of innovation available to improve productivity, organizations recognize the need to promote new ways of working. The new workforce is joining organizations with the mindset of a digital consumer and employees want and need real-time access […]
A Superhero’s Toolkit: The Engine Behind Automation
A Superhero’s Toolkit: The Engine Behind Automation Our previous Process Optimization articles have suggested that the engine powering Business Process Automation and Robotic Process Automation initiatives is human effort. However, this is no ordinary human effort, but rather the unsung superhero powers of Process Engineers, Business Analysts, and Project Managers! But even superheroes have toolkits […]
Data Management and BI – From Chaos to Harmony
Data Management and BI – From Chaos to Harmony Being in the consulting business for a while now, I think I’ve heard it all! I’m talking about all and any excuses and myths that decision makers, in companies of all sizes, come up with to avoid dealing with their data. And yet, everyone agrees that […]
Uncovering Process Complexities before Automating
Uncovering Process Complexities before Automating Business Process Automation (BPA) is no longer a new concept. In some sectors, it has become so accepted as to be expected. Those who are not utilizing BPA are looked upon as lagging behind the pack, while those with BPA implemented throughout all layers of their organization are reaping the […]
The Building Blocks of a SharePoint Governance Plan
Building Blocks of a SharePoint Governance Plan SharePoint- as a key collaboration and content management platform for many organizations- can be utilized in different ways and capacities, such as: Discovering, sharing, and managing content securely within the organization, as well as externally with partners and customers, across any device and from anywhere Managing team and […]