Ignite Australia 2017 Session Recommendations For OEM Partners – Part 3 Office

In the third post of this series -  Ignite session recommendations for Australian OEM and System Builder Reseller partners - I'll focus on the Office related sessions. If you are attending, make sure you let us know in advance, so we can spend some time going through topics that are of interest to you.

All you need to know about Office 365 Cloud PBX [PROD313]

Justin Morris

 Tue 14 Feb, 4:15 PM  

Considering moving your communications to the cloud? Learn how to plan, deliver and operate Cloud PBX in Office 365 so you can ditch your old phone system. We’ll be covering deployment models, configuration, coexistence, migration plans, real world Australian experience and more!

Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer…What Should I Use, and When? [PROD222]

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Blair Hainsworth

Wed 15 Feb, 9:45 AM 

For today's fast-paced, mobile-driven, and globally dispersed workplace, Microsoft offers tons of great ways to effectively communicate and collaborate. But which tools are right for your organisation?

Solutions like Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, Yammer, Skype for Business, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow all offer something unique to your business. In this interactive session, you will gain practical guidance on finding the right tools to facilitate efficient communications and collaboration both inside and outside the walls of your organisation. We’ll also explain how to drive adoption and keep your chosen solution under control.

Get ready to walk away with the ability to chart a productive and pragmatic collaboration approach that delivers immediate and lasting value to your modern workplace.

Get the Latest on Office 365 Groups - Overview, What's New and Roadmap [PROD225]

Christophe Fiessinger

Wed 15 Feb, 3:30 PM  

You’re invited to discover Microsoft Office 365 Groups. It’s the key component of our group collaboration solution, enabling you to move from task to task with cross application group membership (managed in Azure AD). Office 365 apps that are leveraging groups include Outlook, SharePoint, Yammer, OneNote, Skype for Business, Planner, Power BI, and Dynamics CRM. We’ll unlock the following topics: overview & demonstration, administration, and product roadmap.

Dive into PowerApps - Build Apps That Mean Business Without Writing Code [PROD326]

Charles Sterling

Wed 15 Feb, 5:00 PM

Building business applications has never easier. There are always conflicting priorities between IT and business and most apps don’t merit the time and cost of traditional software development. PowerApps is an enterprise application platform for delivering line-of-business apps without writing code. It fundamentally transforms and accelerates how organisations provide employees seamless access to business apps and information. PowerApps now features built-in support for the common data model, enhanced connectivity, support for more devices and integrations with other Microsoft business offerings.

Empower Your Organisation: Office 365 Project Online, Power BI and Flow [PROD341]

Marc Soester

 Fri 17 Feb, 8:30 AM 

How do you provide accurate visibility to your team and executives? How do you automate work tasks? How do you ensure that projects are managed accurately and reported in a timely fashion, without double-handling data?

Learn how to give your organisation the ability to manage all projects and resources in a centralised and consistent manner using Microsoft Office 365 Project Online. Learn how you can use Microsoft Power BI to give your team real-time visibility into your project portfolio and resource picture, from any mobile device. Learn how you can use Flow to automate your work requests within the organisation to ensure that you never double-handle data again.

We'll show you how to: manage projects in Project Online; use OData and Azure SQL to deliver flexible reports and dashboards; use Office 365 and Azure to reduce overall administration of projects, evolving your organisational productivity; optimise your OData queries and discover how you can connect your Project Online data into your Azure SQL Database environment; set up Power BI natural query language so your executive team can seek answers based on natural questions, just like in bing; and let your team members track their tasks on a mobile device, with progress updated automatically on project schedules within Office 365 Project Online.

Deploying and Governing Office 365 Groups [PROD333]

Elaine van Bergen

 Thu 16 Feb, 11:30 AM  

Office 365 Groups is one of the best ways to get wide adoption and usage of Office 365. It's a fundamental building block of many of the newer features of Office 365 including Planner.

Explore how to get Office 365 Groups deployed and setup and how to do this with the most common Hybrid setups of Exchange. In addition, we will also go through the various governance and control options to help keep groups well controlled in a large organisation. Finally, we will briefly cover the API’s that can be used to pull Office 365 Groups into custom solutions.

Meet Planner: Team Collaboration Built on the Microsoft Graph [PROD224a]

Dave Heller

 Wed 15 Feb, 1:45 PM  

Heard of Planner? Keen to know more about it? Join this discussion of the new work management solution in Office 365 – including details about its admin controls and extensibility – to get an idea of how it can help you and your customers.