Which Microsoft PPM Solution is the right fit for you? Microsoft has three main options when it comes to Project Management Solutions: Planner, Project for the web and Project Online. Each of the options comes with varying capabilities out-of-the-box with going from basic to robust functionality for PMOs. Throughout this article, we will be discussing what specific capabilities customers get from each Microsoft plan. If you...
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1. Does your integration need custom coding? Can you utilize the Microsoft Platform or does your integration require custom code? At Marque360, we encourage using the Microsoft Power Platform first. Microsoft provides over 300 connectors with Power Automate out-of-the-box, so chances are there will be an existing connector for your needs. By using an existing connector on the Power Platform, your in-house team, with training and education can support and modify the integration. 2. What triggers...
Read MoreBackground and Business Problem The University of North Carolina’s Athletic Facilities and Planning Management team is tasked with managing a multitude of camps using the University’s facilities throughout the year. On average, UNC hosts 20 different organizations and 15,000 campers through any one season. The Athletic Facilities department, comprised of 14-20 people, must manage and track all the paperwork each camp needs to submit to meet...
Read More1. Microsoft Stream videos and channels in canvas apps Users have been waiting for the ability to feature their Microsoft Stream videos directly in canvas apps. Now they can! However, you must share any Microsoft Steam videos with the users you'd like to be able to see the videos, for them to be able to view them successfully. 2. Sharing made easy for model-driven apps Microsoft has now...
Read MorePowerApps is a suite of apps, services, connectors, and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using PowerApps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your business data stored either in the underlying data platform (Common Data Service for Apps) or in various online and on-premises data sources (SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server,...
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One of the challenges we occasionally run into is how to report on data that is stored in multiple SharePoint sites. Commonly you will see this in structures where there may be multiple sites created for each project, team, process, etc. For example, Project Server and Project Online can create dedicated SharePoint sites for each project. Similarly, Microsoft Teams will create a dedicated SharePoint site...
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Marque360's Senior Solutions Architect, Neall Alcott sat down with Mike Gannotti, Microsoft HLS Technology Specialist to discuss Microsoft Teams integration with Project Online. Teams has proven to be the ideal solution for project management, with its extensive collaboration tools, but doesn't have a seamless integration with Project Online to make it necessary for power users to completely manage their projects through Teams. Marque360 has worked to...
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We use Power BI quite a bit nowadays to help customers visualize their data. Power BI is a great because it simplifies the querying and presentation of business data using dynamic and interactive visualizations. It's relatively user friendly with drag and drop functionality and supports many different data sources such as SharePoint, Excel, SQL and many others. One thing that we have seen cause confusion with...
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In a previous post we discussed how to use PowerApps to enhance your SharePoint list forms. That post focused on using PowerApps with custom lists – but what if you want to use one of SharePoint's many preinstalled, out of the box lists like Contacts, Tasks and others? As of this time, it's not obvious how to use PowerApps with the OOTB SharePoint lists but...
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One of the really cool features of PowerApps is the ability to use it to replace and enhance SharePoint list forms. Also if you have used InfoPath in the past for this same purpose, PowerApps is Microsoft's preferred way of customizing SharePoint list forms going forward. In this article, we will walk you through how to create a PowerApps SharePoint list form for a custom list....
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