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Our companies are faced with internal and external challenges and influencers that approach and attack from every direction and at any time of day or night. How do things need to change so we can provide an Employee Experience, using technology, that will empower our employees to address the challenges that face them, and to use their influence for good across the organization and with our customers. Let's talk about how we can combine our need for compliance and security with employee needs for flexibility and open collaboration. With a little bit of icing from Azure Cognitive Services and AI - powered Bots, we can provide a workplace today to help our offices drive through the fog and haze of today's environment.

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The challenge comes in having your apps able to take advantage of the new capabilities. Learn how to simplify the upgrade and benefit from Modern SQL.

Topics we'll discuss include:

• Challenges of database scale out
• Leveraging the power of Modern SQL for active/active ops
• How Azure simplifies — and complicates — the deployment
• Microsoft reference architectures and case studies of successful customer implementations

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Also, the plethora of tools that exist in the space requires a deep level of expertise to design, configure and then operate an effective DevOps pipeline. Couple that with the challenge of a cloud first, or platform mentality and the design becomes even more complex. Continuous delivery DevOps pipelines if not properly implemented, can cause great instability in applications, put differently, they’ll allow you to deliver unstable applications even faster.

Attendees will learn how Atmosera enables customers with a simple and effective way to deliver applications using Azure. The solution allows customers to leverage experience, best practices, and Azure PaaS services to provide a consistent delivery vehicle for applications. All the while, it is effectively managed and monitored by Atmosera.

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More than ever before, Health systems and post-acute providers are being scrutinized for their ability to achieve higher clinical outcomes with lower costs and enhanced customer satisfaction. New benchmarks in expectations have been set at a national level. Benchmarks that can and will have serious financial consequences if unachieved.

Follow the case study journey of a chain of post-acute care facilities who took data from multiple sources, developed actionable insights, and lead their operation to market dominance. This local provider of nursing care needed to find a way to demonstrate their value to their partner hospitals and managed care payers. So, by combining live electronic health record data with Therapy, Pharmacy, and even CMS information; they were able to gain insights into meeting and exceeding expectations within each of their market spaces.

Follow the presenter as he gives tangible examples of how to achieve similar results through information interoperability, data security and visualization

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Owen will show the requirements that will drive your Office 365 adoption and offer insights into how other organizations have enhanced their employee experiences through productivity, collaboration, and automation.

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There are two major issues in the way - having the right underlying infrastructure and delivering a positive user experience.

Attendees will learn how Atmosera has helped several customers harness their data and improve data protection, reliability, response time, and overall usability of their Business Intelligence (BI) tools. This can easily be accomplished using the right combination of on-premise and cloud-based platform while ensuring the data remains protected and compliant with industry standards such as HIPAA/HITECH, HITRUST, IRS-1075, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.

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The issue is, how do we connect the dots so that the concepts described work in the environment and unique operating constraints of your company? We’ll take a real-world company and, start to finish, build out a strategic roadmap, piece by piece.

We’ll answer the following questions:

• How the Microsoft ecosystem is able to support DevOps end to end (Azure, VS, Powershell/PowerBI)
• Do we need to choose between 100% Open Source or 100% Microsoft tooling?
• Why monitoring comes first not last
• Using metrics to cut through chatter/fog of war – and 6 “Power Metrics” to start your day
• The sticking point of data – what we can do to make sure the backend isn’t a bottleneck

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You can now manage specific business processes on a single platform including sales, customer service, field service, operations, project service automation, financials and marketing. In this session, you’ll learn how companies like yours are leveraging Dynamics 365 to drive digital transformation, optimize operations and drive growth.

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As was the case with prior technological revolutions, this will transform the ways in which we work, live, and play. In his talk, Raven Zachary provides an overview of Microsoft’s positioning of Windows Mixed Reality as the platform for this transformation and talks about ways in which HoloLens is being used today in the enterprise.

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In this demo-heavy session, we’ll take a whirlwind tour through the out-of-the-box AI capabilities provided by Microsoft, tying them directly to business outcomes, and showing how you can add intelligence to your applications in record time.

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Learn a variety of ways to run containers in your organization, for both Linux and Windows and where containers fit in the world of private and public cloud offerings. Container technology allows you to achieve greater density on your hosts, reduce conflicts between dev/test/prod environments and increase deployment speed.

You can easily get started using Docker containers on your workstation, bring those containers to your datacenter or cloud provider (either on IaaS or a container service) and then deploy them at scale using popular orchestration tools, like Docker or Kubernetes.

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While the right technology platforms are a critical part of the transformation process, they aren’t the whole solution. HOW you work is just as important as the work itself. In this practical, lessons-learned session, we will share examples (good and bad!) of our own IT transformation, and discuss tools, processes, methodologies (and even some technology!) that you can use on your journey from cost center to strategic business partner.

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In this presentation, James Lewiston with Marquam will discuss the options and considerations for building a contemporary Form used for automation. Where does PowerApps fit in as a real solution? Where is this product going and when is it ready for a deployment in your environment? What are the upper limits of the complexity PowerApps can handle?

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With a vast toolset available on the Microsoft Data Platform, organizations are increasingly wondering how SQL Server, Azure, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Power BI fit together.

What new Azure and analytics tools should your organization be utilizing? What data sets are good candidates for jumping into Power BI or an analytics project? Can your organization utilize modern tools like Natural Language Query, Machine Learning, or dashboards embedded in mobile apps? If you’re asking yourself these questions, you won’t want to miss this presentation. Martin Wells will discuss the various contemporary analytics tools offered by Microsoft and how organizations should be using these tools today.

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We will also discuss different Service Fabric native development models and how to develop non-native apps using containers.

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Successfully using a public cloud such as Azure requires careful consideration and expertise to ensure it is properly setup with InfoSec in mind.

Attendees will gain an appreciation for how a public cloud such as Microsoft Azure is fully ready for secure workloads.

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These businesses are actively seeking ways to reduce costs and become more efficient and seek analytics of their business processes. This can be achieved through digital process automation. Utilizing SharePoint and Nintex, businesses have the opportunity to solve these challenges. David Dean, SharePoint/Office 365 Architect, will be discussing benefits utilizing forms and workflows for automating business processes and demo previews of business solutions built for various departments, highlight strategies and approaches to make your solutions flexible for your unique business requirements. This presentation is designed for a mixed audience of IT, business professionals and executives who are interested in these type of processes and capabilities.

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What we are seeing at Microsoft though is there is a good deal of confusion and misconceptions around how to implement DevOps and best practices. This in turn leads to a much higher failure rate than with Agile, where the goals and objectives were limited to development, usually a single team with common objectives and a limited size.

If your organization is struggling with this as well, never fear! Docker is here to the rescue. With containerization, you’ll start to see very pragmatic benefits almost from the get-go. In combination with a microservices architecture, it offers the hope of gradually – safely – migrating your out-of-control, massive monolith into a form that is easy to deploy, support and extend with new features that will thrill your customers.

We’ll answer the following questions:

• When would we use a container over a VM or process?
• Docker Containers 101
• Designing the Application – Decomposing and Communications Structures
• Deploying a Microservice with Continuous Delivery
• Choosing a CD tool
• Monitoring your containers
• Service Fabric – programming model and the app lifecycle

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Come join an enlightening interactive hour learning about the technology and the current research – get ahead of the curve and be informed!

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Heidi Brown and Jason Dempsey of Cambia Health Solutions share their experiences as skilled volunteer partners with Medical Teams, to solve real-world problems and transform how data is collected in these high-need, low-tech environments.

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