GNPC in a bid to keep employees productive and connected on the go have chosen Microsoft’s Office 365. But this deployment has to happen without any kind of interruptions to service delivery, as such they turned to Microsoft Fast Track and Microsoft Premier Services Support to help with migration.
Godfred Ofori-Som, IT manager of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), talks about the decision to use Microsoft Office 365, the adoption and migration process in a blog post.
In our bid to ensure that our employees stay constantly connected and equipped to work everywhere, including in the field, we decided to invest in a robust IT structure and in tools that support on-the-go connectivity. This is crucial to support timely communication internally as well as mission-critical email with partners, customers, suppliers and other key stakeholders.
Godfred talks about how the they were already using some Microsoft services like Windows server, Windows OS and had a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. So based on that trust choosing office 365 was top and came natural to accomplish what they were looking for. Finding out about Microsoft’s Security support for hybrid and on premises deployments gave them a boost.
Our first step was to convince our management team that security and reliability wouldn’t be an issue. Once we established that Microsoft security capabilities are fully supported in hybrid and on-premises deployments alike, everyone was on board
The IT team had a challenge when it came to hybrid migration as they hadn’t deployed anything like this. Microsoft Fast Track and Microsoft Premier Services Support came in handy and helped assess their IT infrastructure and environment, and created an adoption.
We worked with Microsoft Premier Services Support, and together, FastTrack and Premier not only helped us deploy Office 365, but also developed a high-level view—a cloud strategy for the whole business. This included providing advice on how to migrate our other apps over time and get the most out of the capabilities and components of Office 365.
Microsoft FastTrack includes resources, tools and experts that help you rollout Office 365. The Microsoft FastTrack team believe a successful Office 365 rollout focuses on driving adoption and helping everyone understand the benefits of working in a new way.
Microsoft Premier Support services provides continuous hands-on assistance and immediate escalation for urgent issues, which speeds resolution and helps you keep your mission-critical systems up and running.
With the help of these Microsoft products and services, GNPC has moved their apps to the cloud.
Our employees are already changing the way they work. Managers can now share data with each other and access it even while they’re traveling—a new best practice—rather than store data on their computers. Employee communication and engagement have also been improved. Employees can connect on Yammer by posting photos, videos and more. Our Corporate Affairs department shares quick updates with staff on Yammer, which further drives collaboration among the teams within the business.
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Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship is an annual global competition that tests students’ skills and allows the entrants to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products; Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 Word, Excel and PowerPoint by answering questions. This years final will be taking place in Dallas, Texas, United States of America from August 9-12, 2015.
This years competition opened to participants of age 13 to 22 saw over 1400 students from 78 schools in the country participating. Introduced this year by the organizers of the program was the addition of the Junior High Schools with the emerging winner eventually from one.
Samantha-Michelle Naa Korkoi Kanyi a student of the Mary Mother of Good Counsel School in Accra, emerged the winner of this year’s National Microsoft Office Specialist Championship with 985 points out of 1000, setting a new record and becoming the youngest winner in the history of the Ghana competition.
Qualifying to represent Ghana for the international completion in Dallas, Texas with Samantha are Jedidiah Koomson of the St Augustine’s College and Esther Yeboah of the SOS Hermann Gmeiner International School,
Samantha received a ticket to represent Ghana, a laptop, stationery, Microsoft branded T-shirts and a certificate as her prize.
The Microsoft Office Team after a while of testing this program privately has extended the preview to the public.
Office Mix is a simple way to turn PowerPoint slides into interactive online lessons and presentations.
“It’s our goal to make it easy to create an online lesson or presentation with something you already know how to use – PowerPoint. We call these online, interactive presentations “mixes” and the tools created to build them is Office Mix.”
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Office Mix allows you to record audio or video of yourself presenting, write on your slide as you speak, insert quizzes, web pages, add interactive apps (like lessons from Khan Academy and CK-12 Foundation), polls, online videos etc., you also have the ability to screen capture and record anything from your screen. Your presentation is automatically loaded to the Office Mix website and transformed into a playable, interactive mix when you upload it. It also remains private till you share it.
It’s designed to allow anyone take a PowerPoint document, mix it into an interactive, playable document that can be view on almost any device, with an internet connection.
With Office Mix you get to Create, Engage and Evaluate with a lot of ease.
“Our mission is to make creating an online lesson as simple as creating a PowerPoint.”
The Microsoft Office Mix customer preview is now available at www.Mix.Office.com . Office Mix requires Office 2013 SP1.
Source: Office Blog
