3rd April 2023
Designing a BI dashboard for your business can be challenging, but when you add a list of needs, KPIs and stakeholders to approve - it's easy to see why companies opt for the quick fix. When there's no time to ask your users what works for them, you have to look for efficient, compelling, and [...]
29th March 2023
Optimising Azure spend
Thanks to Microsoft Azure and technological advancements, more companies than ever before are able to take advantage of cloud technologies. However, one of the downsides of cloud configurations is that costs quickly add up and multiply depending on features used. If cloud costs aren't properly audited, companies may find an unexpected bill at the end [...]
28th March 2023
Why Use Blazor in .NET Development?
Any web developer worth their salt knows the importance of JavaScript in modern web app development. In recent years it's become the backbone of development and one of the most popular programming languages, empowering front end web developers to build high quality user interfaces for both web and app. But picture this: .NET running on [...]
23rd March 2023
Boomi Cloud Migration: 7 Strategies For Success
The Boomi cloud migration process involves moving a company's entire digital ecosystem from one cloud to another. This ecosystem is filled with all the essential data a business needs to thrive - think databases, applications, and services that are vital to day to day operations. This is why, if you're thinking of starting a cloud [...]
23rd March 2023
How to automatically arrange meetings with Scheduling Poll
This article was produced by Eliot Cole. There are a few ways to use the Scheduling Poll, but here's a quick guide on how to set up a meeting that arranges itself. Note: Remember to use your 'Book With Me' links for One-To-One meetings, as that is even less hassle for you and your potential [...]
21st March 2023
The new Outlook Scheduling Poll
How I Learned To Stop Organising And Let Technology Do It For Me by Eliot Cole Microsoft has recently released a new exciting feature for Outlook, the Scheduling Poll. Akin to Doodle, this new planning tool is an easy way to reduce the emails, calls, and instant messages that go back and forth to arrange [...]
20th March 2023
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has evolved
Software giant, SAP SE, has announced the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, now renamed as SAP Datasphere. SAP's focus is on assisting enterprises to unify business data spread across disparate systems. With SAP Datasphere, users can pull data from SAP and non-SAP applications into a centralised integration point. As with SAP Data Warehouse [...]
15th March 2023
Microsoft announces the preview of serverless Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has announced a preview of the serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL database; bringing the benefits of Hyperscale and serverless into a single solution. Azure SQL Database is a managed cloud-based database service, available in several formats based on the purchase model, deployment model, service tier, compute model, and hardware types. Customers can [...]
14th March 2023
Emails Exposed in DoD Azure Attack
A gap in a US military server operated by Microsoft left more than a terabyte of data exposed to the internet. This comes only one month after Microsoft 365 was awarded higher level government security accreditations. The openly accessible server was part of an internal mailbox system hosted on Azure's Government cloud and used by [...]
8th March 2023
Embrace Equity This International Women’s Day
Happy International Women's Day! At Influential, we don't just use this day to celebrate the team's female members and educate our staff on Influential women in tech - for us, this is an opportunity to highlight the problem in the industry and tackle it head-on. Women in tech: notable statistics It's no hidden secret that [...]