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Collaboration without boundaries, learn how Microsoft Office 365 can help your team work together better!

During our live webinar we’ll show you how Microsoft Office 365 allows you to collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync (IM, presence, web and Video Conferencing) on devices your people use the most, so they can connect from virtually anywhere.

Date: Wednesday, April 4th

Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM (EST)

Live complimentary Webinar presented by: Michael Kophs of Microsoft and Nick Gentile of ICS

Agenda:

Learn how to streamline the user productivity experience based out of the Outlook client:

  • Initiate Chats by clicking on a co-worker’s presence
  • Convert an email conversation into a group chat, web or audio conferencing
  • Sync SharePoint content (documents, calendars, contacts etc.) with Outlook
  • Use Document Management capabilities like versioning, alerts and Outlook Sync
  • Use forms and workflows to solve existing pain point business workflow problems
  • Show the great out of box web parts and templates that are included with SharePoint Online

 

The Microsoft Technology Roadmap Event
presented by Microsoft and Innovative Computer Systems, Inc.

We will cover the Microsoft technology roadmap from the data center to the device to the cloud with
an emphasis on how Microsoft solutions can help your business today and in the future.

Be the first to hear about the newest information on Microsoft solutions including:

  • Windows 8
  • Office Roadmap Vision
  • Azure
  • SQL Server 2012
  • System Center 2012 and more!

    Register Now

Date: Thursday, March 15th

Registration Time: 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m
Registration & Breakfast

Event Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Technology Roadmap Event

Location
Microsoft Office
74 Batterson Park Rd
Suite 100
Farmington, CT 06032

Parking
Free on-site

Topics that will be covered:

Microsoft Keynote: Strategic IT - It's not just about saving money and increasing efficiency.
It's all about enabling IT to be more strategic at driving innovation and growth.

Employee Productivity - Be productive on-the-go, communicate real-time, gain business insights,
create content collaboratively and connect with customers

Decision Making - Uncover the backend power for data discovery, dashboard customization and drill downs,
and data visualization to empower employees.

IT and the New Business Model - See how to take all the hype around the cloud into action to innovate and grow,
yet maintain secure, compliant and compatible systems for your business

See how easy Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Enterprise Search can be with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Everyone creates documents. But few can find them. Sound familiar? Many studies have shown, that a large percentage of most people’s day is spent looking for the right information.

Learn how to use SharePoint’s out-of-the-box features to efficiently and effectively store your documents so finding them is fast, effective, and easy.

Learn how Microsoft SharePoint ECM can organize your documents so you can find them.

Date: Thursday, March 8th

Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM (EST)

Live complimentary Webinar presented by: Michael Downing, Director of SharePoint at ICS and Steve Pellegatto, Chief Technology Officer at ICS.


Abstract:

In this webinar, we will demonstrate simple patterns that will help you harness the powerful ECM features of Microsoft SharePoint. Understanding the building blocks of SharePoint ECM is not as complicated as it sounds. You will learn the basics of these building blocks and how they are tightly integrated with Microsoft Office to increase productivity. Finally, we will demonstrate how these ECM features are exposed through Enterprise Search to help you find your data faster and more easily.

Agenda:

  • Enterprise Content Management (ECM) – Overview
  • Getting started with ECM
  • SharePoint’s approach to ECM
    • What the heck is metadata and how will it help me?
    • SharePoint Document Libraries instead of file shares – what are the benefits?
  • Harness the Power
    • Content Types, Document Templates, Document Sets – not as scary as it sounds!
    • Managed Metadata - Simple, easy, VERY powerful
    • Increase the overall value of your content
  • Increase user productivity
    • Consuming SharePoint ECM via Microsoft Office
    • Enterprise Search - the Enterprise Search experience: Find your data. Fast!
  • Advanced Capabilities/Upcoming Events (discussion only)
    • Content Organizer
    • Workflow
    • Records Management
  • Q&A

We hope you can join us for this complimentary Live Webinar.

See How Data Can Make A Difference with Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions!

Microsoft® Business Intelligence (BI) solutions can help people at every level of your organization gain deep business insights and easily share them companywide.

Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM (EST)

Date: Tuesday, February 28

Join us and learn how to:
Improve organizational effectiveness.

Turn disparate data into actionable information. Share insights so better decisions can be made and organizational goals become more aligned.

Empower your people.
Access critical business information quickly—with less dependence on IT—and get the right information in the right hands to help people make better, more strategic decisions.

Drive IT and developer efficiencies.
Use your existing IT investment and familiar Microsoft tools to help minimize costs and complexity, and increase IT productivity.

SQL Server 2012 is coming.
See the exciting new technologies that are coming in 2012 from Microsoft, including SQL Server 2012 for Business Intelligence.

 

See how simple a communication solution can be with Microsoft Lync.

Instant messaging. Email. Telephone. Texting. All very convenient, but it can be expensive and time consuming to manage all those applications and systems.

If your communication system seems to have taken on a life of its own, it may be time you took another look at Microsoft Unified Communications solutions.

Learn how Microsoft Lync can simplify communications.

Date: Thursday, February 16th
Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM (EST)

Live complimentary Webinar presented by: Jonathan Sides of Microsoft and Nick Gentile of ICS

Agenda:

  • Microsoft Lync overview
  • Single platform
  • Increase user productivity
    • IM, presence, voice, web, video conferencing, and mobility
    • Integration to Exchange, SharePoint, CRM
  • Reduce IT and telephony costs

Collaboration without boundaries, learn how Microsoft Office 365 can help your team work together better!

During our live webinar we’ll show you how Microsoft Office 365 allows you to collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync (IM, presence, web and Video Conferencing) on devices your people use the most, so they can connect from virtually anywhere.

Date: Thursday, January 26th

Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM (EST)

Live complimentary Webinar presented by: Michael Kophs of Microsoft and Nick Gentile of ICS

Agenda

Learn how to streamline the user productivity experience based out of the Outlook client:

  • Initiate Chats by clicking on a co-worker’s presence
  • Convert an email conversation into a group chat, web or audio conferencing
  • Sync SharePoint content (documents, calendars, contacts etc) with Outlook
  • Use Document Management capabilities like versioning, alerts and Outlook Sync
  • Use forms and workflows to solve existing pain point business workflow problems
  • Show the great out of box web parts and templates that are included with SharePoint Online