Office 365 Weekly Digest – Week of February 16, 2016

Here are the topics we’re following this week in Office 365 for Business.

• Intelligence –Thank you for supporting us – RoseBud featured in Microsoft’s Power BI Partner Showcase
  RoseBud is proud to be among the select few Partners invited to the Microsoft Power BI Partner Showcase. The Showcase provides customers with great examples of what Power BI can do across many different industry segments. We worked very diligently to demonstrate, what we believe, is one of the most useful capabilities in Power BI – Natural Language Q&A. Our showcase includes an interactive Power BI Dashboard and 2:30 minute video demonstration of Natural Language Q&A.  [Visit Showcase] [Read blog] 
• Productivity – Cortana Now Scans Your Emails to Make Sure You’re Keeping Promises
  Ever feel like you need an assistant just to remind you of your to-do list items? Well, Cortana may be able to help, but only if you want her to.
  
• Collaboration – Office 365 Groups Overview – Presented in Sway
  Have you checked out Sway or Office 365 Groups? Sway makes it quick and easy to create and share polished, interactive reports and presentations. Office 365 groups enables teams to come together and get work done, by establishing a single hub and a single set of permissions across email, meetings, conversations, document storage, and document sharing. Take a look at this interactive guide to better understand the capabilities of both.
• Intelligence – Power BI Announces “Publish to Web” Preview and February Service Updates 
  Power BI releases updates each month, many of which come from customer requests. This month there are 11 updates including sharing dashboards outside your organization, request access to a dashboard, and connect to data files on SharePoint with a URL. 
• Event – Two In-Person Sessions on February 25th – Cloud Productivity and Cloud Intelligence
  Cloud Productivity – See and experience all that Office 365 has to offer. Cloud Intelligence – bring your business’s data to life with Power BI. By the end of this session, you’ll have a good foundation of what Power BI can do and you’ll see how easy it is to create and share a dashboard. Registration is required [Register – Cloud Productivity; Register – Cloud Intelligence]