Displaying items by tag: Microsoft 365

COMPANY NEWS: Pax8, the leading cloud commerce marketplace, today announced its partnership with Perception Point, providing partners with cutting-edge security solutions for the modern workspace. Through Perception Point’s Advanced Threat Prevention solutions, partners can safeguard their customers with unparalleled threat prevention covering email, Microsoft 365 collaboration apps (Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive), and web browsers from one platform. The solutions include Perception Point’s 24/7 managed incident response service, which offloads resource-intensive and time-consuming investigations and remediation from partners.

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath, a leading enterprise automation and AI software company, today announced an integration between the UiPath Business Automation Platform and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. The integration will enable joint customers to automate more knowledge work and enhance end user experiences with UiPath. Microsoft Azure is a preferred cloud platform for UiPath, including UiPath Automation Cloud.

Microsoft 365 Suite is widely used, offering a range of applications to meet various needs. Protecting the data within Office 365 applications is important, and businesses need a robust backup plan to safeguard critical data against accidental data deletion, security threats, and ensure business continuity and compliance.

Data protection specialist Veeam Software has extended a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to “innovate new solutions” for protecting customers by integrating its product family and Microsoft Copilot and artificial intelligence (AI) services.

GUEST OPINION: The number of attacks targeting web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) has increased significantly. Barracuda mitigated more than 18 billion attacks against applications during 2023, including 1.716 billion in December alone.

GUEST OPINION: With the use of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) like passkeys growing more every day, it’s exciting to see the widely popular service, Microsoft 365, announce availability recently for passkeys on YubiKeys with mobile devices. This new Microsoft preview not only opens up support on iOS and iPadOS for Microsoft 365, but for a whole range of other Microsoft 1st party apps and also any other applications protected with Entra ID.

GUEST OPINION:  Should an organisation move to Google Workspace? Maybe. The answer should be based on an evaluation of multiple factors specific to how the organisation does business. It’s not an easy yes or no.

Australian startup Mesh Ai has announced the release of Simpatico Teams, a “pioneering AI-driven mental health application” for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Copilot for Microsoft 365.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies is delivering a portfolio of professional services for Microsoft, including services for Microsoft 365 Copilot, to help customers adopt a consistent approach to implementing and managing their technology.

AGL, Data#3, Bupa, NAB, Powerlink Queensland, Rest Super and Suncorp are among the first Australian companies to trial Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft has announced it would be unbundling its Teams communication software from its Office suite, and making it easier for rival products to work with its offerings.

COMPANY NEWS: BitTitan, an Idera company, announced today that Tim O'Neill has joined the company as its new Asia-Pacific sales manager.

Security awareness specialist KnowBe4's new PhishER Plus blocks phishing attacks by combining a blocklist generated more than ten million KnowBe4-trained users in conjunction with AI-based validation.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has opened a formal probe into Microsoft's bundling of its Teams application with its Office software.

COMPANY NEWS: 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services by joining the AWS Partner Network and will offer customers holistic data protection strategies that include additional Veeam Software solutions on AWS. The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market and sell customer offerings.

Backup specialist Veeam Software has announced plans to integrating Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 with Microsoft 365 Backup via Microsoft's new backup APIs.

Data security vendor Rubrik has announced a forthcoming integration with Microsoft 365 Backup, providing faster Microsoft 365 restores, recovery of Azure Active Directory, and centralised management of Microsoft 365 data and other SaaS and hybrid cloud workloads.

COMPANY NEWS: Check Point Software Technologies, a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2023 report. In its inaugural debut in the Forrester Wave, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration secured a position as a leader.

Enterprise software company TechnologyOne has called a halt to trading after discovering its systems had been breached through its internal Microsoft 365 back-office system.

British regulatory and compliance software vendor Ideagen has acquired Australian Microsoft 365 specialist OnePlace Solutions.