EdTech Insight – 3 Challenges to Hybrid Work — and How to Overcome Them

by EdTechMate | May 30, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points In the evolving terrain of global higher education, recent observations indicate that hybrid work models have cemented their place beyond the immediate response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As academic and administrative functions in...

EdTech Insight – Tech at Work: How to Get the Most out of Digital Collaboration Tools

by EdTechMate | May 30, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points Key innovations and trends in the intersection of technology and international education have been highlighted in the recent four-part series “Tech at Work” from HBR IdeaCast. The series, featuring senior tech editors Juan...

EdTech Insight – Viva Connections Partner Showcase – Lightning Tools

by EdTechMate | May 30, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points In the rapidly evolving landscape of educational technology, key innovations have emerged from the partnership between Lightning Tools and Microsoft. Brett Lonsdale of Lightning Tools showcased their advanced solutions and extensions,...

EdTech Insight – How to use Cosmos DB at extreme scale with large document sizes

by EdTechMate | May 30, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points Key innovations identified in this educational technology review include the adoption and enhancement of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB in managing large-scale data pipelines for educational institutions. There have been significant...

EdTech Insight – Part 2: Migrate Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium using Azure Databricks – How-To

by EdTechMate | May 29, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points The integration of Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models with Power BI Premium through native connections to Azure Databricks SQL offers significant benefits, such as the separation of compute and storage, instant scalable...

EdTech Insight – What’s New in Copilot for Sales – May 2024

by EdTechMate | May 29, 2024 | Harvard Business Review, News & Insights

Executive Summary and Main Points The recent updates to Microsoft Copilot for Sales emphasize significant enhancements in integrating AI with sales workflows through Microsoft 365 and Teams. Key innovations include a unified sidecar in Outlook, global entity search,...