AWS Advanced Consulting Partner

Strategic Communications earns AWS Advanced Consulting Partner certification

Woman Owned/Minority Owned Business earns Amazon Web Services’ highly touted certification Louisville, KY – 2/20/2019: Strategic Communications, a leading IT, Cloud, and Audio Video integrator, announced today the achievement of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner status.  The certification recognizes Strategic Communications fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to design and deploy customer workloads in AWS cloud environments. …

Customer story: Nakilat

Qatari shipping and maritime company, Nakilat, aspires to be a global leader in energy transportation. To increase its efficiency, security, and competitive advantage, the company has transitioned its onshore offices and fleet of 67 vessels to a cloud-based, SaaS model. With Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Cloud App Security, Nakilat has securely improved employee communication and mobility. The company has also …

Customer story: Coats

Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread manufacturer, chose the Microsoft cloud in its strategy to modernize its business and data platforms. With a 250-year heritage, a global footprint, and 19,000 employees worldwide, secure, reliable, and progressive systems are a must. The company deployed cloud-based collaboration technology, including Microsoft Office, and migrated most of its data payload and SAP estate to …

Customer story: Fleet Complete

Shortly after a surge in business, which mobile-workforce-management company Fleet Complete referred to as “man your battle stations” mode, the company kicked into disaster recovery mode. In January 2018, the Fleet Complete head office in Toronto, Canada, was flooded. Although many employees could not access the office, with cloud technology, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365, the company remained …

Microsoft Dynamics for Customer Service

How do you keep track of your customers? Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the next generation of intelligent business applications that enable your organization to grow, evolve, and transform. These applications unify CRM and ERP capabilities with purpose-built applications that work seamlessly together to help manage specific business functions. View: Microsoft Dynamics for Customer Service

Using cloud technologies to improve disaster recovery

Disaster lurks around every corner. You need a solution that can deliver peace of mind with a comprehensive solution. By using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager and SQL Data Sync to improve application resilience and performance in the cloud, Microsoft IT helps ensure that business applications are always available, and data is protected in case of disaster. View: Using …

Customer story: Jumeirah Hotels

Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts–owners of some of the world’s most luxurious hotels–has a reputation for delivering world-class hospitality. In their tradition of excellence, the company compiles data through its customer loyalty program to customize and deliver personalized messaging. This has resulted in nearly 50% customer engagement and a 10% increase of year-over-year revenue.

Customer story: RLH Corporation

Discover how Red Lion Hotels Corporation used Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, and Office 365 to digitally transform their internal processes to drive higher guest satisfaction. Faced with data-quality issues, the challenges of combining two legacy CRM platforms, and a need to improve internal communications, RLH Corporation consolidated disparate systems into a single platform.

Sound Masking: What Your AV Consultant Should Know

When audiovisual consultants conduct customer site surveys, it remains crucial to factor sound masking and privacy systems into the design.  Integrating sound masking technology into meeting spaces or large auditoriums may sound like an afterthought to some, however, the consequences of not doing so are quite significant.  Not only does audio carrying over to other areas of a facility disrupt …