Tag: SMB

Six ways to speed up your recovery in 2021 

2021 promises to be a year of economic recovery across Canada. This Microsoft post offers six ways that small and medium-sized businesses can speed up their recovery.

Future Now Preview: Advice for SMBs in challenging times 

Business owners, particularly small and medium-size business owners, are some of the most resourceful and resilient people I know.

Eight remote working essentials to stay productive 

The second in our Keep your business moving securely series, this post offers eight remote working essentials to help you stay focused, productive, and secure from home. You can try out these tips at your business and/or share this post with anyone who may be procrastinating!

Secure remote working solutions for government agencies 

The fifth in our Keep your business moving securely series, this blog post features secure remote working solutions from Microsoft, designed to empower Canadian government agencies facing unprecedented challenges.

Secure remote working for human resources teams 

Human resources (HR) teams have a major challenge on their hands this year.

Empowering Canadian healthcare teams with new remote working tools 

Like so many Canadians, we’re overwhelmed by the courage and commitment of firstline workers, especially healthcare teams, across the country who put themselves at risk to support us all. We salute and thank you for your service!

Your security checklist to help protect your employees working from home 

Get a security checklist to protect your employees working from home. Intelligent security can help you identify, pre-empt, mitigate, and stop internal and external attacks.

Startup Story: Encircle speeds up insurance 

Encircle works with customers primarily in the insurance industry to reinvent processes and improve productivity. This Kitchener, Ontario-based software company provides an alternative to traditional, cumbersome, paper-based systems. Their simple, but powerful cloud-based, mobile tools allow organizations to deliver a more fair, transparent, and rapid claim experience.

MIMs: The artificial intelligence startup taking on cancer and heart disease 

Born in the Microsoft Cloud in 2016, My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a Canadian software startup on the most impressive mission imaginable: speeding up the fight against breast cancer, heart disease, and leukemia. How? By radically accelerating post-genomic research using artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.

Quartic.ai, manufacturing agility with IoT & AI 

Born in the Microsoft Cloud in 2016, Quartic.ai is a Canadian AI and Industrial IoT startup on a mission to make manufacturing more productive and flexible through digital transformation. How? Through an innovative application of IoT (Internet of Things), artificial intelligence (AI), industrial domain knowledge, and technical expertise.

Take the lead with artificial intelligence 

Ready to take the lead with artificial intelligence? Good for you! In this post, we focus on what real-world small and medium-sized business owners and managers need to do to make their operations “smarter, stronger, and faster” using AI. Included are links to AI business resources from Microsoft and some inspirational reads. Artificial intelligence.

Go the distance with modern technology – Learn the new language of business 

Ready to go the distance with modern technology? As the pace of technological innovation speeds up, you might think that tomorrow arrives earlier every year. By leaps and bounds, the global marketplace evolves. Change disrupts traditional ways of operating a business, managing supply chains, and attracting new customers.