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Installed by employees on their own initiative, Shadow IT is the notorious, murky world of third-party applications and cloud services that find their way into the workplace without oversight and clearance from IT departments. From private smartphones and USB sticks to new cloud-based collaboration services and communication tools employees utilize to make daily office life easier and boost productivity – Shadow IT takes on many forms. It is becoming increasingly prevalent and more often than not slips under the IT department radar.

These days, you can access a business document virtually anywhere. Why not boost productivity and save time by giving your team the opportunity to create and manage content on the go?

In 2007, Google launched its business productivity suite under the Google Apps Premier Edition brand. It was renamed Google Apps for Work and rebranded as G Suite in late 2016. This means that Google now offers similar services to Microsoft Office 365, aiding digital transformation by bringing well known services for customers to the cloud for email, documents, online chat, and video conferencing.

A rebrand is a critical phase for any business that is merging, growing, changing direction or simply looking to refresh and stay relevant. In other words, sooner or later, every business will find themselves rebranding and updating their visual brand identity.

Workforce management software has been on Microsoft’s public radar since late 2016. Announced in September last year with an impressive preview of its tool for deskless workers, Microsoft finally debuted StaffHub in January 2017 in the company’s effort to expand Office 365’s wide set of productivity features for both managers and front-end workers.

Templafyer, Jasko Besic, walks us through why Templafy could be your new favourite workmate for Microsoft Office and Office 365.

Huge marketing budgets are routinely dedicated to building a brand which resonates with customers, but the most cutting-edge companies also invest in building a brand culture which excites and inspires their employees.

Turn Microsoft Word into a Swiss-army knife and unleash dozens of add-ins designed to augment Word’s powerful features to become even more productive, efficient and creative at drafting and editing documents with the world’s most widely used word processor.

These days, almost all business activity starts with a digital document: whether it’s the creation of a new file or the modification of an existing template. Correspondence, contracts, plans and presentations containing critical information are used by companies on a daily basis.

OneNote is the whizziest Microsoft application you’re probably not using. If you thus far have steered clear of the digital note-taking service because, well, you thought the last thing you needed was another app to handle, it may be time to chew it over again.