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Microsoft Modern Work and Security Services

Many students and teachers won’t return full time to in-person classrooms and will continue the new year in a hybrid-learning environment. Empower students and teachers with the right set of tools that allows them to communicate and collaborate from anywhere with confidence. Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 integrate chat, meeting, calling, and productivity tools with the necessary security, compliance, and management to enable learning and teaching from anywhere.

In today’s modern education landscape, collaboration is more important than ever. Our Modern Work and Security Services cover everything from Microsoft Teams readiness to Azure Sentinel to help teams work better together.
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Microsoft 365: Do More with Less Workshop

Discover How Microsoft 365 Solutions Help Organizations Do More with Less

Maximize your IT investment with a unified solution that eliminates redundant technologies and empowers you to Do More with Less. Watch this on-demand session to learn how Connection can help your organization elevate productivity, improve collaboration, and keep people, data, and devices protected through hardware and software security designed by Microsoft.

Adopting a Microsoft 365 solutions practice can result in:

  • A reduction of complex IT operations
  • Strengthened cybersecurity
  • Transformation of business operations and collaboration
  • Consolidation of application licensing and cost savings
Microsoft 365 for Business

Save Money with the Right Microsoft 365 Plan

Evolving technology has contributed to the complexities of making informed and strategic IT decisions today. With Microsoft providing various 365 plans, your organization can choose from options that benefit your specific needs, including the popular Microsoft E3 and E5 subscription models. With Microsoft 365 incorporating industry-leading apps with intelligent cloud services and world-class security, you'll have access to a suite of productivity apps that continue to advance the new era of work. Modernize your employee experience today by integrating a single solution that automates system updates, reduces IT management costs, and minimizes time spent on device management. Enable your teams—working in-office, hybrid, or remote—with a unified solution that simplifies IT management across all users, devices, apps, and services.

Get the Most Value Out of Your Microsoft Investment

Looking to streamline your software infrastructure and make the most cost-effective decisions to meet your business needs? Our Microsoft Landscape Optimization (MLO) assessment allows you to gain insight into your current IT environment through a series of workshops, helping you determine the best licensing options.
Secure Productivity with Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Secure Productivity with Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Improve the employee experience and secure remote workers with Microsoft 365 Business Premium—a unified and comprehensive solution for productivity and security. Simplify deployment and endpoint management, reduce licensing complexities, and gain enterprise-grade, AI-powered threat intelligence that keeps security top of mind.

With Microsoft 365 Business Premium, organizations can:
  • Deliver the best user experience
  • Manage and protect endpoints from the cloud
  • Simplify and optimize endpoint estate to improve IT efficiency

Step Forward with the Latest Generation of Microsoft Surface

Thanks to Surface, it’s easier than ever for your organization to shift to a modern PC. Surface devices aren’t just preloaded with Windows 10—they’re designed around it, creating a truly powerful package. Enjoy ultra-light portability, intuitive navigation, longer battery life, and speeds up to 87% faster than previous generations of Surface. Experience enhanced productivity and security with Microsoft 365 and Surface—powerful hardware and software that work together. Achieve more with better remote meetings and collaboration made possible by best-in-class cameras, mics, and speakers. All this and more is possible when you deploy Surface throughout your organization:

Government
Secure communication and collaboration are crucial to your staff. Surface gives government employees the processing power and online threat protection they need to stay informed and move forward with their decisions. They can use Surface to take shareable notes, authorize and provide services on-location, and run programs wherever their work takes them. And when you combine Surface with Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, you can offer a secure roadmap to productivity.

Education
Surface allows teachers, students, and staff to do their best work from anywhere, with modern devices that let them connect, collaborate, and communicate in new ways. Surface can also make it easier for teachers to streamline lesson plans, create and grade assignments, and meet one-on-one with parents.
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Better Data Security for Less Cost

Better Data Security for Less Cost

There are more remote workers than ever before. As collaboration continues to be at an all-time high—and users access data from a variety of devices—Connection and Microsoft advise that businesses update their data security strategy to help safeguard data anywhere it lives. As a formidable and evolving challenge, it's important to understand where your data lives, prevent data loss with the right policies, and manage insider risk.

Uncover the right Microsoft security solution for your organization by participating in our Data Security Engagement. Our experts will evaluate your posture, analyze risk, and recommend next steps. Forget the time-consuming research. We’ll help you understand, address, and protect your business-critical data.
Microsoft 365 Defender

Microsoft 365 Defender

As threats become more complex, it’s important to secure users with integrated threat protection, detection, and response across endpoints, email, identities, applications, and data. Microsoft 365 Defender offers a unified enterprise-class defense suite that comprises of the tools and applications to automatically prevent cross-domain attacks and layer security against future attempts.

These best-of-breed protection and productivity tools can empower your organization to increase security and efficiency across the board:
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Defender for Identity
  • Defender for Cloud Apps
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