If you’re like most small business owners I know, there’s a good chance your top resolution this year is to be more productive. After all, the average entrepreneur needs more than 24 hours a day to get everything done. I recently got a demo of the newly released Office 2016 and learned about the many new features and programs designed to help users get more accomplished with less time and effort.

Ready for a productivity upgrade? Here are five ways to get started:

Collaboration can make any business better. Recently I saw a jarring statistic that out of 140,000 corporate executives surveyed, 86% believe a lack of collaboration was responsible for workplace failures
Beyond just performance, collaboration fosters teamwork and enhances employee morale.
Here are seven technologies that we employ at Betach to drive business collaboration.

You don't have to be an IT guru to know that the tools you use to collaborate change every day. Keeping up with that technology is another story. Office 365 makes it easy to keep your networks and teams connected with simplified infrastructure and advanced communication tools. But best of all, it's constantly upgrading to incorporate the latest technology, so you can focus on achieving more. Check out this blog to learn more about how you can improve your collaboration.

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Dynamics 365 for Marketing (not to be confused with Microsoft Dynamics Marketing) which allows full marketing automation from within Dynamics 365.Our Betach marketing team has gone through the preview, and here is our summary

We work with files and documents daily in Office 365. There are many options in where you store and share the files you create and update. In this blog, we will look at OneDrive for Business (ODFB) and SharePoint Online (SPO).

Today is Groundhog Day — a day when hundreds of people gather in the predawn freezing cold to find out whether a small rodent will see his shadow or not. Perhaps the only thing sillier than believing that a groundhog can predict the weather is believing that doing the same thing over and over can ever lead to different results. In the movie “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray is an unhappy weatherman who is doomed to repeat Groundhog Day over and over. Are you, too, suffering from Groundhog Day syndrome? Here are 5 common symptoms:

If you are using Office 365 in your organization, and there are many companies who are or are planning to, there are some clear advantages in implementing a SharePoint-based intranet. In fact. we’d go as far to say that opting for a non-SharePoint intranet-in-a-box solution when you have Office 365 really doesn’t make much sense at all.