The Managed Solution team had a great time at the 2015 Biocom Open House & Purchasing Group Supplier Showcase
This year marks the 20th anniversary for Biocom, so they celebrated with a housewarming party in their new home. Managed Solution is Biocom's endorsed technology partner and provides Biocom members with exclusive discounts. Learn more.
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The new Office lets you search and select images with Smart Lookup. Add images to your PowerPoint presentation quickly, without having to leave the doc. The possibilities with the new 2016 apps are colorful and refreshing. http://off365.ms/A3aaQu
Long Beach (Calif.) Evolves its IT Workforce, Platforms and Focus
Millennial workers without tech backgrounds and coding on their phones -- this isn't your father's IT shop.
By Steve Towns as written on Govtech.com.
With baby boomers gradually leaving the government IT workforce, public agencies are scrambling to attract a new generation of employees. Long Beach, Calif., CIO Bryan Sastokas says he’s working to attract millennial employees by adopting open source and cloud-based platforms, and emphasizing community-focused initiatives. Sastokas also is hiring more employees who lack traditional IT backgrounds, and the result of that, he says, is a shift toward agile, business-centric solutions. Sastokas talked about his department’s workforce evolution in an interview during Government Technology’s Los Angeles Digital Government Summit earlier this week.
Managed Solution is the premier provider of IT support services and technology recommendations for the government sector. For more information on government specific solutions contact Managed Solution at 800-550-3795 or fill out the contact form.
The Look of Modern Meetings
An increasingly global workforce, mobility, and video are top trends impacting the evolution of the modern meeting. As written by Michelle Burbick on No Jitter.
Blue Jeans Network recently released its third-annual State of the Modern Meeting Report , which uses data from more than five million BJN business video collaboration meetings in 177 countries to draw conclusions about how meetings are evolving over time.
This year's report highlights several notable trends. BJN has found, for example, that weekend meetings are becoming more frequent. BJN data shows that 49% more meetings are taking place on Saturdays, and Sundays have seen an 84% increase in meetings over the previous couple years. I suppose this reflects that the traditional workweek is on its way out -- something us Millennials have been crabbin' about for a while now.
Online meeting use surges when extreme weather strikes, with video meeting activity increasing by 35% during the Boston blizzard last year and by 26% during the flooding that hit Texas this past May. As this trend illustrates, conferencing technology is making it easier to maintain business as usual in situations when that might not have been possible previously.
As you will see in the infographic below, the corridor from New York to Los Angeles is traveled the most, both physically and virtually speaking, while professionals on the West Coast take more meetings then their counterparts in other regions.
While the use of conference room systems is growing, mobility is key. A quarter of all meetings have at least one mobile video caller, BJN reports, with 78% of mobile video meetings coming from Apple devices. The rise of remote workers and increasing globalization of teams are propelling the use of video, enabling team members to meet "face to face" no matter where they are or what devices they are using.
Take a look at the full infographic to get a more complete snapshot of the modern meeting.
Start an online presentation in PowerPoint using Skype for Business
You can schedule an online meeting ahead of time or start a meeting right away – all from within PowerPoint using Skype for Business. You need to have a microphone connected to your PC, so you can speak to your meeting attendees.
Important: This feature isn’t available in Office on a Windows RT PC. Want to see what version of Office you're using?
1. Slide Show > Present Online > Skype for Business.
Note: A list of active Skype for Business conversations and scheduled Skype for Business meetings (within 30 minutes) will appear, and you can also start a new meeting right away.
2.In the list, pick a scheduled meeting or start a new Skype for Business meeting, and then click OK.
3.In Skype for Business, do one of the following:
Begin your scheduled meeting.
To begin a new meeting, invite attendees by choosing Invite More People Add contact button.
i.Under Invite by Name or Phone Number, select contacts from the contacts list or type each name in the box, and then click Select.
ii.Begin your presentation.
Tips for using other options in Skype for Business:
Note: These button images will change color. For example, dark grey means that you’re not performing an activity at the moment, but you can click it to start one. Blue means you are engaged in an activity. Light grey means you don’t have functionality for that option.
Microsoft Recognizes Managed Solution as a Top West Region Small and Midsize Business Cloud Partner
San Diego, CA - August, 25 2015 - Managed Solution, a highly honored and tenured managed services company and pioneer in managed, utility-based cloud computing, recently announced its participation in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program. The program is designed to strengthen customer relationships and expand cloud sales opportunities by enabling partners to provide direct billing, sell combined offers and services, as well as directly provision, manage and support products and services. In appreciation of this program and their long term partnership, Microsoft awarded Managed Solution to recognize them as a Top West Region Small and Midsize Business Cloud Partner.
"Managed Solution is honored to be recognized as a Top West Region Small and Midsize Business Cloud Partner," says Sean Ferrel, president and CEO, Managed Solution. "Our long term partnership with Microsoft and participation in the Cloud Solution Provider program allows us to build stronger relationships with our customers and provide them with the best cloud solutions to empower their business,” says Ferrel.
Managed Solution makes moving to the cloud simple, with industry specific solutions designed to meet the compliance, security and performance needs of regulated organizations.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
About Managed Solution
Managed Solution is the premier provider of outsourced IT support and managed services for small to large size businesses. Founded in 2002, the company quickly grew into a market leader and is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Companies in Southern California. Managed Solution continues to deliver award-winning services paired with leading business technologies to assist clients in running their business efficiently.
