Learning to Tame the Cloud Sprawl Beast

By Ron Vaughn
Sponsored by EMSCO Solutions

If you are like most people, you have likely had your share of frustrating experiences with logging into multiple cloud applications that don't talk to each other. Often, entering the same data repeatedly because all your business information is held in different application silos.

This brief article is to outline one way to simplify your business processes, making you and your teams more productive within one suite of tools that you're probably already using to some extent.

In today's business world, there are a plethora of applications provided by multiple vendors that do not interact with each other. Costing the business owner and employees considerable time and money buying many licenses and logging into various applications and trying to move data from one data silo to another.

By using Microsoft 365 as a single source of truth with its vast array of applications accessed through a single webpage, a business owner simplifies all his user's work, making them happier and more productive employees.

Microsoft 365 has a single sign-on solution that allows users to access all their Microsoft 365 apps and data through a single webpage. This is a huge benefit for businesses, as they have one less headache to work through with the diverse applications, they have available to them. 

Accessing everything from a single sign-on page makes it much more efficient for employees to find critical information and tools without having to remember multiple usernames and passwords. 

The possibilities are practically infinite in what you can do to optimize your team’s efficiency. 

If you would like to get an idea of how vast this corporate universe can be take a look at https://lookbook.microsoft.com/ this will show you a wide variety of templates that you can choose from or just get inspiration from and build your own from scratch.  If you don’t have the time or inclination, then EMSCO Solutions would be happy to help. 

*Note: Denotes M365BP

All of the above apps are included in your M365 Subscriptions, so if you are using any number of these applications, you should be able to derive savings and efficiencies by implementing a M365 environment. If you are concerned about having to train your employees to use this new portal, you can encourage adoption by making it each user’s default homepage in their browser.  I believe it would be safe to say that most companies are already using many if not most of the Microsoft products mentioned here.  This may be a new way for your team to enhance and collaborate in a new and efficient way.  If you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas about any of these things you can feel free to reach out to me at 405-267-4999. 

Ron Vaughn is a Microsoft SharePoint and Teams Consultant for Paradigm Solutions which is a division of EMSCO 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."