Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel: Virtual Training Day

Most office users only use about 15% of Microsoft Excel’s Power.

This webinar is to review some common features, tools, tips, tricks and designed to take you from a basic understanding to an intermediate level.

What you’ll Learn:

  • Sorting data
  • Removing Duplicates
  • Data Validation
  • Math Functions
  • Freeze Panes
  • Working with Dates
  • Search and Replace
  • Formulas – IF, TRIM, LEFT, MID, SEARCH
  • VLookup
  • Pivot Tables, Charts and Graphs
  • Working with ERP – Budgets, add/modify/delete

Requirements

  • Basic computer skills and experience navigating the Internet.

Details

Date:
March 22, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm - ET EDT
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.


Power BI - How to Get Started, The Project Plan to Get Going, & Best Practices

Power BI - How to Get Started, The Project Plan to Get Going, & Best Practices

Often managers struggle to get information out of their ERP system to make strategic changes in a timely fashion.  It is usually difficult or too costly to gather the information or the tools are too cumbersome and expensive.  If you have attended our previous Power BI sessions, then you have seen and experienced how easy and powerful the solution is, yet implementing a power bi project can be complex and challenging.

This webinar will show you how to align the goals of management with department performance, how to monitor the quality of data and avoid many mistakes, rework or additional costs.  Our objective is to help you build out an implementation roadmap to move your company forward with Power BI, which will directly result in better performance and revenue growth!

Agenda:

1. Overview of what Power BI can do for you

2. What is Power BI Desktop?

3. What is Power BI Pro?

4. What is Power BI Premium?

5. What is the difference between Power BI Pro vs Premium in terms of functionality?

6. What is the difference between Power BI Pro vs Premium in terms of cost?

7. What are the strengths and weaknesses between Power BI Pro vs Desktop?

8. How can a small business reduce the overall cost of Power BI, and what should the strategy be?

9. Jet Reports for Financial Reporting

10. Q&A Session

Details

Date:
March 10, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.


Power BI 101 - Intro Level Training

Power BI 101 - Intro Level Training

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Hey! Did you sign up for the Power BI 201 course but didn’t take our 101?

Better, sign up for this event to get you ready and prepared for the 201 course. In this webinar, we will give you a crash course on how to create dashboards and visualizations using Power BI in 90 minutes.   

Webinar Agenda: 

1. Training on report layouts, visualization, tools, filters and navigation

2. Creating your first Dashboard in Power BI

Prerequisites:

1. You should have a laptop.

2. Download Power BI to your desktop/laptop

3. We will email you the training database

Deliverable:

At the end of the webinar, each person will have created Power BI – Dashboard with graphs and slicers

Why this training?

  • You can learn at your desk with our sample datasets, with easy to follow instructions using the free version of Power BI desktop.
  • Participants will receive the recorded version of the webinar in addition to the training PowerPoint.

How will it benefit me?

  • Understanding the trends and outliers in your business can aid in making informed decisions that can result in success.
  • Turning data into knowledge that can help drive your business, providing insights for better business decisions.
  • Time Analysis is significantly easier when using a tool like Power BI.

What are the objectives of the training series?

  • Upon completion, learners will be ready to model data and build amazing analytics in real-world scenarios, such as analytics on sales data, financial data, or manufacturing or distribution data.

Details

Date:
March 8, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.


Best Microsoft Apps Conference 2022

Continuous improvement has become the new normal for Canadian businesses in the age of COVID-19 and beyond.

Microsoft & VOX ISM want to invite you to join the biggest Canadian Microsoft Partner event – The Best Microsoft Apps Conference.

In this conference, we’ll showcase the Top 10 Microsoft Partner Apps that will help Canadian businesses to embark on their digital transformation journey in the current economic environment.

Conference Agenda


  • Conference kick-off by Jim Heaton, President, VOX ISM (Microsoft Triple Gold Partner)
  • Keynote presentation by Mike Fontaine (aka Manufacturing Mike)
  • 10 back-to-back presentations by Microsoft Partners on the Best Microsoft Apps for Canadian businesses
  • Q&A Session

Exhibitors


You Should Attend Best Apps Conference If:


  1. You are looking for new ideas, trends and applications to help support your growing business.
  2. Your business has changed since COVID, but your ERP and CRM system hasn’t. It would be best if you now had mobile access, better security, better reporting, and a system that can keep up with continuous improvements.
  3. You are looking to invest in automation to reduce costs and labour in Finance, Manufacturing, Quality or Supply Chain departments.
  4. You are finding ways to unify relationships, processes, and data with connected, comprehensive, cloud business applications.
  5. You want to discover how to provide a safer workplace with tools to maintain productivity as teams work remotely.
  6. You want to learn how to get funding and grants to accelerate the adoption of new technology.
  7. You want to hear directly from Microsoft experts about hundreds of new applications, features, and capabilities of Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform 2022 release wave 1.

So join us and experience tomorrow’s innovations for your business – today.

Details

Date:
May 5, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - ET EDT
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This webinar will take place on the Cisco Webex platform. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.
Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call 705-466-7477.


Microsoft Power Automate: Virtual Training Day

Microsoft Power Automate: Virtual Training Day

It is a mistake to hire developers to program custom solutions.  So instead, join us for another training webinar where you will learn how to quickly automate your workflows, enable business logic to simplify tasks and connect your processes with Microsoft Power Automate. 

Agenda:

  • Introduction to Flow
  • Templates
  • Flow in Action
  • Flow Features and Functions
  • Multistep Flows
  • Approve Requests
  • Adding conditions
  • Using a combination of data/systems
  • Working security
  • Dashboards and Monitoring

Prerequisites:

  • You either need Microsoft 365 professional or
  • You can download the Power Platform you can get a limited trial license

Details

Date:
February 28, 2022
Time:
11:00 am - 11:45 am - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.


Microsoft Teams Bootcamp

Microsoft Teams Training Bootcamp

Embrace tools that support modern work and security for whatever happens next.

Join us for a unique experience designed to help organizations connect in a new way and thrive in the face of change. Microsoft expert Mike Fontaine will present this webinar and will be answering your questions.

Agenda: 

Introduction

  • Introduction to Teams as the central hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 
  • How Teams impacts organizations 
  • Overview of chats, meetings, and calls 
  • Collaborate with integrated Microsoft 365 apps 
  • Customizing team workspace 
  • Stay connected across devices

Navigate Microsoft Teams 

  • Explore the Microsoft Teams interface 
  • Your digital identity within Teams 
  • Search in Teams 
  • Compose a new message 
  • Break down the apps within Teams

Using persistent Chat 

  • Create and participate in one-on-one, group, and meeting conversations 
  • Format messages 
  • Find messages by a person’s name or keyword 
  • Hide or mute chats to keep them out of the way 
  • Connect relevant information to chats 
  • Easily jump into an audio or video call

Collaborating in a team 

  • Overview of teams and channels 
  • Utilize posts to share ideas and communicate with the team 
  • Share and collaborate on files 
  • Customize and extend the Teams experience through connecting Microsoft and other apps 
  • Host an audio or video call within a Channel

Calendar and meetings

  • Overview of the relationship between Outlook and Teams calendar 
  • Book an online meeting 
      • Create in Teams or Outlook 
      • Difference between meeting and channel meeting 
      • Scheduling assistant 
      • Invite people outside the organization, including those who don’t have a Teams license 
  • Change calendar view 
  • RSVP, chat with participants and join 
  • Meeting details

Call capabilities in Teams 

  • Set speed dial and contact groups 
  • Launch an audio or video call from VoIP 
  • Exploring Phone System (if enabled)

See all your files 

  • Overview of files storage in Microsoft Teams 
  • See recent files, files from across teams, and downloads 
  • Access OneDrive
  • Connect to another cloud storage location (if requested)

Customize and extend 

  • Pin additional apps or unpin unused apps 
  • Preview to extending Teams experience (covered in advanced Teams courses)

Catching up with the Activity feed 

  • Getting to the summary of everything that’s happened in Teams 
  • Viewing notifications 
  • Filtering notifications and responding to posts

Create your first team 

  • Walkthrough of setting up a team and channels 
  • Explore different circumstances where a team could be made 
  • Building a successful first team 
  • Create a team from scratch that has a clear intention 
      • Build channels with clear description and uses 
      • Pin tabs to extend the experience 
      • Post etiquette and populating channels with rich content 
      • Review key features in teams 
  • Customizable demonstration based on workstreams and use cases

Join a Teams meeting

  • Explore how teams can be used to prepare for a meeting, run a meeting, and follow-up on meeting objectives 
  • Join a meeting from a hyperlink, meeting chat, dial-in, calendar, or a channel 
  • Navigate the pre-meeting screen and selecting the right devices 
  • Explore main actions in a Teams meeting
    • Share video, audio, and content 
    • Show and chat with participants and raise hand 
    • Explore meeting views 
  • Mobile capabilities

Next steps

Summary of topics covered 

Question and Answer Session

 

Note: Microsoft Teams delivers a rich, interactive experience that works best with the Teams app. We recommend downloading the app if you don’t have it, as not all browsers are supported. When you join this event, your name, email and/or phone number may be viewable by other session participants in the attendee list. By entering this event, you agree to this experience.

Details

Date:
February 8, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on the Cisco Webex platform. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.
Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call 705-466-7477.


Microsoft AI Virtual Training Day

Microsoft AI: Virtual Training Day

Let’s get started in AI and Machine learning!  You’ve probably heard about it in the news and know that other companies are using it, but what is it? How does it work? And how can a typical manufacturing and distribution company take advantage of the technology?

Please join us in a “hands-on” approach to understanding what AI is and how to use it.  The format will be similar to the other 101 series, which is a combination of education and doing.

Agenda:

  • What is Data Science?
  • What is Machine Learning?
  • What kinds of prediction questions can you ask?
  • Common Algorithms
  • Data
  • Simple Predication
  • Hands-on creation in the Machine Learning Studio

This webinar focuses on Machine learning, which is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses algorithms to identify patterns within the data, and those patterns are then used to create a data model that can make predictions.  After building, the model the system has the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed and Microsoft provides toolsets that make this process as easy and drag and drop.

This webinar is designed for people will little to no experience in programming, R-Scripts, Data Science, Statistics, etc. but want to learn something new and understand how this technology will shape the future.

For machine learning:

Details

Date:
January 31, 2022
Time:
11:00 am - 11:45 am - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477


Eliminate your C drives and D drives with SharePoint

Eliminate your C drives and D drives with SharePoint

If you’re like most companies, you have tens of thousands of files, hundreds of directories and several file servers storing corporate data through connected desktops in the office.  This was a great invention, but it only works in the office or connected through a VPN.

If you are working from home, you will still need to create, collaborate and share documents with your co-workers, but email isn’t the best solution. Furthermore, the shared drive concept wasn’t perfect, to begin with: people forget to store their files in the company drive, there are gaps in collaboration, content gets duplicated, and old versions get mistake for the latest.

This webinar is to showcase how SharePoint can effectively replace file servers and allow you to optimize and better arrange contents as you move to the cloud.

Agenda

  1. Introduction to SharePoint
  2. Creating Folders
  3. Creating Metatags
  4. Version control
  5. Integration into Teams
  6. Searching, Sorting

Benefits to SharePoint over a file server

  1. Complete access
  2. Searching
  3. Check-in and Check Out
  4. Version history and backup protection
  5. A single copy in a single space

Details

Date:
January 25, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.


Excel with Excel April 19_2022

Excel with Excel

Most office users only use about 15% of Microsoft Excel’s Power.

This webinar is to review some common features, tools, tips, tricks and designed to take you from a basic understanding to an intermediate level.

What you’ll learn:

  • Sorting data
  • Removing Duplicates
  • Data Validation
  • Math Functions
  • Freeze Panes
  • Working with Dates
  • Search and Replace
  • Formulas – IF, TRIM, LEFT, MID, SEARCH
  • VLookup
  • Pivot Tables, Charts and Graphs
  • Working with ERP – Budgets, add/modify/delete

Requirements

  • Basic computer skills and experience navigating the Internet.

Details

Date:
April 19, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm - ET EDT
Event Categories:
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.


Top Cybersecurity Trends to Adopt in 2022

Top Cybersecurity Trends to Adopt in 2022

As people increasingly shift to remote work, protecting your organization’s information and managing risk should be a top priority. Cybercrime shot up by 600% during the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to cyber threats isn’t easy, but it’s essential. Companies can experience cyberattacks at any time, which can cost them significant damages. 

In our exclusive webinar, we’ll show the latest security trends for 2022 and teach you how to take advantage of Microsoft technologies that identify and remediate threats that arise from creating, storing, sharing, and using sensitive data.

We will also give you all the essential tools and materials that will help you to train your staff on data security, cyber hygiene and compliance. Properly preparing the team on security protocols promotes a security-conscious staff that works together to avoid internal and external risks in fraud, data breaches, and losses for the company.

This webinar will cover:

Top Cybersecurity Trends to Adopt in 2022

    • What does the future hold?
    • The Dark Web – What you should know about what’s really out there

Overview of Microsoft Security and Compliance

    • Understand and identify the possible threats
    • The “Dark Web” – what you should know about what’s really out there

Security Awareness Training

      • Using the Tools you May Already have (Anti-PhishingSpam2fa in O365)
      • Creating an Acceptable Use Policy for the staff
      • Providing Strong Password Training
      • Teach Employees to Identify Threats and Report Problems
      • Use Proper Device Management
      • Remote Access and Wi-Fi Best Practices
    • Organizational Security Awareness and Preparedness (DRPs, exit protocols)

What’s next

    • Security changes that are coming this year (double authentication, etc.)

VOX ISM Security Package

    • A comprehensive collection of security capabilities for the modern organization.

Details

Date:
January 12, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm - ET EST
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This webinar will take place on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, we will send you the links required to join the Live Webinar.

Hope to see you at the webinar. For questions, reach out to linda@voxism.com, or call +1-705-466-7477.