What if you could work more efficiently?

By Ron Vaughn

Sponsored by Paradigm Solutions Group

Imagine sitting down at your desk and having everything you could possibly need to start and run your day at your fingertips before you must make a single mouse click. Better yet, you’d be three clicks or less from every file you need to work on, team member you need to communicate with, email to reply to and so much more.

Fortunately, this is not something we have to wait to be invented in the future; you've got access to it right from Microsoft 365. At Paradigm Solutions Group, we've developed a revolutionary user experience that's tailored to meet the daily requirements of accounting firms such as yours on the Microsoft 365 platform.

By assessing your organization's day-to-day workflow, we can customize a landing page to bring those disparate functions and elements all into a single pane of glass. By bringing these things together, we are essentially creating a "face" for your business applications. This face can provide a dashboard of all your:

• Web apps;
• Personal and company file shares;
• Personal and company calendars and events;
• Team collaboration and project management;
• Business intelligence graphs powered with Power BI;
• Company videos and training;
• And much more.

What does that look like in the real world?

Imagine you arrive at your desk and your landing page is already up because it’s set to open when you open your browser (yes, everything is hosted in the cloud so it’s simple, secure and always up to date).

You get to check your most important time zones to know when you should reach out to your priority clients or connect with other branch offices, plus the weather hovers at the top of the page (or wherever you want it, everything is custom built for you) so you never get caught by surprise.

You scroll slightly down the page and click into your email inbox to clear out any priorities that need your attention, then open your Teams chat to start your morning huddle with your colleagues. After all, you’ve added it to your “team calendar” (also hosted on this landing page) so everyone who needs to be there is already waiting on the call.

Post huddle, you click through your project management list for the day and see that you have several tasks to address; you take a couple for yourself and delegate the others to your colleagues for maximum efficiency, all without leaving the page. You quickly click into your SharePoint section of the landing page, open the project and finish it before your morning coffee refill.

Thanks to the company events calendar on the page, you remember that you have a lunch and learn to attend with your favorite technology partner (ahem, Paradigm Solutions Group). After a valuable presentation and a delicious lunch consumed, you roll through the Power Business Intelligence interface and discover some interesting business insights you want to share with an adviser, but you can’t remember their number! Fortunately, your contacts list is also on your landing page, so you find it in seconds.

Right before you’re about to head out of the office you get a message from your intern asking about how to conduct one of their tasks that is due the following day. You quickly scroll through the company training materials section on your landing page and pull out the SOP they need so they can keep making progress and have it ready for you in the morning. A day well spent, twice as productive and half as stressed and scattered.

Again, this isn’t some fancy gadget fantasy from a sci-fi movie. This is what Paradigm helps clients build every single day. Everything mentioned above lives in a single, easy-to-use page that is always open in a browser window.

Business stress still comes with the territory, but it’s never because of your technology. Instead, your tech is streamlining your day, making sure you get tasks done in record time, helping you collaborate with your team like never before and ensuring you’re not missing a thing when you need it.

Extrapolate that across the number of people you have on your team, and you’ll begin to see why clients call Paradigm “one of the top investments made in business, period.” To learn more visit PDSG.net or call 405-267-4999.

Ron Vaughn is a Microsoft SharePoint and Teams Consultant for Paradigm Solutions. He enjoys helping businesses develop a customized roadmap on how to best utilize technology for their benefit. Vaughn states, "By thinking outside of the box I am able to create simple solutions that turn traditional technology from a necessary evil into a strategic asset."