This new partnership expands DMC’s ability to help organizations modernize financial and operational processes with one of the leading cloud ERP platforms on the market.

What Does Becoming an Acumatica VAR Mean?

As an Acumatica VAR, DMC is authorized to sell, implement, configure, integrate, and support Acumatica ERP solutions. More importantly, it means our clients can work with a team that understands both the software and the business processes behind it.

Many ERP partners focus primarily on software deployment. DMC brings a broader perspective. Our teams have experience in manufacturing operations, custom software development, systems integration, reporting and analytics, automation, and business process improvement. This allows us to help clients not just implement a new system but build a stronger operational foundation for growth.

Whether you’re evaluating ERP platforms, planning a migration from QuickBooks, or looking to connect finance and operations better, DMC can support every stage of the journey.

How Our Clients Benefit

Many organizations reach a point where disconnected systems, manual data entry, and spreadsheet-based reporting become difficult to manage. ERP projects are meant to address these challenges, but successful implementations require an understanding of both technology and business operations.

By partnering with DMC, clients receive access to:

• ERP implementation expertise designed for project-based, manufacturing, and technology-focused organizations
• Custom integrations that connect ERP data with existing business systems
• Business process optimization to increase efficiency and visibility
• Reporting and analytics solutions that support better decision-making
• Long-term support and enhancements as business needs evolve

Because DMC’s engineering and software teams regularly solve complex integration and data challenges, we can help clients maximize the value of their ERP investment beyond the initial implementation.

Why Acumatica?

Acumatica is a modern cloud ERP platform designed to help organizations unify finance, purchasing, inventory, project accounting, and operations. Its flexible architecture and extensive integration capabilities make it a natural fit for growing businesses that need more than traditional accounting software can provide.

For organizations managing projects, manufacturing operations, inventory, or multiple business units, Acumatica offers the visibility and scalability needed to support future growth.

Our ERP Journey Comes Full Circle

Becoming an Acumatica VAR is a natural next step for DMC. Through our own ERP modernization initiative, we gained firsthand experience with the process of evaluating, implementing, and optimizing a modern ERP platform. That experience gives us practical insight into the technical, operational, and organizational challenges our clients face, helping us deliver more effective Acumatica solutions from day one.

Scaling Beyond Accounting Software with Acumatica ERP

When QuickBooks Couldn’t Keep Up, DMC Made the Move to Acumatica and Unified Their Operations

As DMC grew, disconnected systems, manual reporting, and limited visibility created operational challenges. By implementing Acumatica ERP, we unified finance, purchasing, inventory, project accounting, and CRM into a single scalable platform, improving reporting, collaboration, and decision-making across the business.

Learn how our firsthand migration experience helps organizations modernize with confidence.

Read the Case Study

Looking Ahead

ERP projects are about more than software. They’re an opportunity to improve business processes, connect critical data, and create systems that support long-term growth.

As a certified Acumatica VAR partner, DMC is excited to help organizations evaluate, implement, and optimize ERP solutions that match their business goals.

Whether you’re beginning to explore ERP options or are ready to migrate from your current platform, DMC can help you navigate the process from start to finish.

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Access needs to be granted, equipment prepared, documentation completed, and teams aligned long before day one. As a result, onboarding success depends less on how employee data is stored and more on the ability of an organization to collaborate across teams.

This is where SharePoint and Power Automate can play a critical role.

At DMC, we have evolved our own onboarding approach over time, moving from SharePoint Designer workflows to a more modern solution built on Power Automate, SharePoint lists, and Modern Pages. This approach has allowed our organization, as well as clients we’ve assisted, to create a more flexible and maintainable onboarding system aligned with current Microsoft 365 best practices.

If you are considering a SharePoint and Power Automate solution because you’ve outgrown the capabilities of your HRIS or you want to add some rigor to current manual processes, there are some important considerations to make before making the switch.

1. Consider Where HRIS Platforms Add Value and Where They Fall Short

HRISs play an essential role in onboarding. They are designed to manage employee records, benefits, and compliance-related processes, and they do this very well.

However, HRIS platforms are not typically built to orchestrate dynamic, cross-department workflows.

Common limitations include:

• Rigid, one-size-fits-all workflows.
• Limited configurability without vendor involvement.
• Lack of visibility for non-HR teams.
• Weak integration with the tools employees use every day, such as Teams and SharePoint.

As a result, teams often fall back on email, spreadsheets, or ad hoc tracking methods to fill the gaps.

HRIS systems are designed to manage employee data, not to coordinate operational tasks. And when those tasks apply to different teams across departments, HRIS systems can really fall short. This is not a shortcoming of HRIS platforms; it’s simply a matter of scope.

That said, the most effective approach is not to fully replace an HRIS but to extend it. This is where SharePoint and Power Automate can act as a flexible coordination layer, connecting people, tasks, and systems across the onboarding lifecycle.

2. Assess Your Current Onboarding Process and Requirements

Before designing a solution, it is important to understand how onboarding actually works in your organization today.

As we’ve mentioned, onboarding is not a single workflow. It is a collection of tasks owned by different teams, each with its own processes, timing, and requirements.

So, it’s important to ask some of the following questions before designing a new onboarding system:

• Who is responsible for each task? Responsibility often varies depending on the task and the employee. For example, setting up IT credentials may be handled centrally by a single team member, while preparing a desk or workspace may depend on local office staff.
• What tasks are required for different types of hires? Full-time employees, contractors, and remote workers may all follow different onboarding paths.
• How do onboarding tasks vary by office location? On-site onboarding tasks often differ from office to office. For example, one location may need to coordinate building access and employee badging, while another may need to prepare a parking space or other workspace accommodations.
• What documents, approvals, or systems are involved? Consider offer letters, compliance forms, equipment requests, and system access.
• How is progress tracked today? Many teams rely on email threads, spreadsheets, or disconnected tools, which can make it difficult to maintain visibility.

An effective onboarding system must reflect this complexity and variation. It needs to support cross-functional ownership while providing a single, clear view of progress.

3. Evaluate the Tradeoffs of Hard-Coded Onboarding Workflows

When HRIS platforms fall short in coordinating tasks, organizations often turn to custom workflows.

In many cases, these workflows are hard-coded to define:

• Which tasks are created.
• Who each task is assigned to.
• When tasks are triggered.
• How dependencies and due dates are structured.
• Which onboarding stage initiates the work.

This approach can work initially, especially for straightforward onboarding processes. However, onboarding rarely stays static.

As organizations grow and evolve, certain changes are inevitable. HR might introduce new compliance steps; a team may suddenly need to reassign responsibilities; new office locations may require different onboarding activities; a start date or timeline changes, etc.

When these rules are embedded into a workflow, even small changes call for developers to update, test, and redeploy every solution. Over time, this approach slows system improvement, increases maintenance, and introduces risk. Over time, this slows down improvement, increases maintenance overhead, and introduces risk.

The more rigid the system, the harder it becomes to adapt.

4. Consider a Configurable, Template-Driven Approach with SharePoint and Power Automate

A more flexible approach is to separate workflow logic from task definition.

Instead of hard-coding tasks into Power Automate flows, onboarding tasks can be stored as configurable templates in SharePoint lists. Each template defines the task, its owner, timing, and any relevant dependencies.

Power Automate can then dynamically read these templates and generate tasks based on the specific onboarding scenario.

This approach offers several advantages:

• Business users can manage the process without modifying workflows.
• Changes do not require redeployment, reducing dependency on developers.
• Onboarding can scale more easily across roles, locations, and employee types.
• Variations can be handled dynamically, rather than through separate workflows.

This model also complements HRIS platforms well. HRIS systems remain the source of truth for employee data, while SharePoint and Power Automate handle task coordination and execution.

5. Plan for Visibility, Ownership, and Adaptation

The most effective onboarding systems make work visible and ownership clear.

Key design considerations include:

• Role-based views for HR, IT, managers, and employees.
• Clear task ownership, so nothing falls between teams.
• Real-time status tracking, reducing the need for follow-ups.
• Scalability, to support new roles, locations, and hiring volume.
• Reusability, allowing the same framework to support offboarding and other workflows.

When teams can see what needs to be done, who is responsible, and what is complete, onboarding becomes more predictable and less dependent on manual coordination.

A Flexible, Modern Approach to Onboarding

HRIS platforms are essential for managing employee data and meeting compliance standards, but can fall short when it comes to onboarding task management. SharePoint and Power Automate can help coordinate teams through essential onboarding tasks, from the moment a new hire signs their offer letter to long after their first day.

Whether you’re looking to extend an existing onboarding process or build something new, DMC can help! We’ve assisted organizations in moving from spreadsheets and email-driven processes to scalable, automated onboarding systems built on Microsoft 365. By combining these tools and adopting a configurable, template-driven approach using SharePoint and Power Automate, organizations can build onboarding workflows that adapt over time and grow with the team.

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Pros: The Share Button is Convenient 

If you’ve used SharePoint Online or OneDrive, you’ll recognize the share button located in the navigation ribbon above your document library. This button appears as a default unless you turn it off on a tenant level. 

When you click the share button, it prompts you to type the name, group, or email of the party you would like to send the document to. It also offers a field to send a message along with the file. An automated email containing the file and any message you included will arrive in the recipient’s inbox. Users appreciate how easy it is for any employee to share content with other people inside or outside of their organization using the share button.   

Cons: The Share Button Can Cause Permissions Issues 

While Microsoft’s share button is convenient for users, it can cause some unanticipated issues on the backend. When people use the share button, it creates a unique set of permissions for that one file or location. Then, permissions are managed at the level of the individual name of the user who received it rather than at a companywide level. 

This can become an issue when a change happens. Instead of managing permissions in Active Directory by team, you may have to edit permissions for every user who received the file via share button. This can cause headaches for IT and cost extra time for maintenance.  

For example, if someone shares the OneNote file for Project Awesome with Jane, Jamal, and Jennifer using the share button then permissions are created at each of their individual name levels. If this option is continuously used, the organization could have a permissions web on their hands. Instead, users should share the file with the Project Awesome Team and that team should be defined as containing Jane, Jamal, and Jennifer. In this instance, future changes can be addressed at the Project Awesome Team level rather than every individual member. When you’re making sitewide changes this time savings can add up.  

 
Sharing documents at a team level (right) is preferred over sharing documents at an individual level (left.

Best Practices for Sharing Files 

The best practice for sharing files within your organization is to consider a companywide strategy. In general, permissions should be handled at the organizational level and not be managed by individuals.  

There is a configuration setting at the site collection level that allows you to only share with people who already have permissions. This will allow users to send an email sharing the document and it does not alter the permissions. As part of your organizational strategy, consider choosing this option by default and being cautious about where to leave the share button feature on. 

The share button can be useful if you need the ability to share documents with users outside of your organization. However, it should be used judiciously. DMC can help you set this up. 

Use the Copy Link Option to Share Files 

Fortunately, Microsoft offers more than one way to share files. Rather than use the share button, users can copy a link to the file and share it with others.  

Select your file and click the three dots or overflow menu to the right of the file name. A navigation window will appear.

After you click “copy link,” you can paste the link into an email or chat window. This method has the added benefit of being able to customize your message to the recipient when including the document link, rather than generating an automated email.  

If you need to further customize the permissions, click “Settings” on the “Link copied” window. This will display additional options for sharing the document link if they are available per your organization’s link-sharing strategy.  

While Microsoft makes it easy to share documents between users, the method that users choose may have unintended consequences for permissions at the user level. Considering a companywide strategy for document management permissions and communicating best practices to your users can save your IT team time and keep your organization productive.  

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• Note:  If you are communicating with a client and you see the word ‘(Guest)’ next to their name, it means that they must sign into your organization’s tenant in order to receive your messages. 

• If you see ‘(External)’ or nothing next to their name, it means they can communicate with you from their own tenant.

• There are multiple ways to chat, but chat capability will be limited by the settings of the client tenant.  Use options 1-3 if your IT department is unable to update the client’s settings.  

• Option 4 is the best interface for you and your client but will require them to update their settings.

Short term client – Client Tenant Teams is locked down (cannot update Teams settings or highly restrictive):

Option 1 – Start and pin a group chat 

The benefit of this option is that both users will be able to view the chat in their own tenant. However, it doesn’t allow for threaded conversations.

On the chat page in teams, click on the pencil edit icon to start a new chat and enter the client’s email address. 

If their settings allow for communication, Teams will find the user and display ‘(External)’ next to their name so you can start a chat which allows both of you to stay within your own tenant. 

If you need to add multiple team members you can include members from other organizations. Teams will notify everyone in the group when you send a chat depending on their settings.  Pin the chat by clicking on the 3 dots and selecting ‘Pin’.

Option 2 – Invite your client to a Team in your Tenant

This requires your organization’s tenant to allow external users. The benefit of this option is that you can share project documents and other content as needed and have threaded conversations in Microsoft 365. But users will be required to switch from their own tenant to yours, which is an inconvenience. This can be accomplished by switching tenants with the drop-down next to your name in the Teams interface, or by opening Teams in a private browser session.  Make sure you have permissions accounted for before taking this step to ensure that clients only have access to content you want them to have access to.

Create a Team by clicking on the left icon from the project’s SharePoint site and invite them as a guest to your tenant.

Once your team is created, click on the ‘…’ next to the team name, select ‘Add Member’, and type in the client’s email address.

Option 3 – Be invited as a guest to their tenant’s Team

This option is simplest for clients but requires you to sign into their tenant. You will be required to switch between tenants for meetings or communication with other clients. 

When entering a Teams meeting while using the client tenant on your desktop, the app will treat you as an external user and client permission will be required to enter meeting rooms. The client’s settings will need to allow for this, but once admitted, you will have a shared collaboration space. 

Tip: Use Teams in an incognito browser to simultaneously keep both tenants open without having to switch back and forth for Teams Meetings. 

Long term client, can update Teams setting to allow for collaboration.

Option 4 – Create a Shared Channel 

This option is the best for all parties, as you can each work in your own tenant. It gives you access to threaded conversations, ​shared documents, and content without having to worry about permissions. This method only provides access to content in one specific channel and creates a separate space for documents, but it requires the client’s IT to update their tenant to allow collaboration with your domain. 

Step 3 – Create the Teams team​ as shown in Option 2 above.

Step 4 – Create a new channel in the Team and use the shared channel option.  Add the email addresses of your clients once step 1 has been completed (this will take a few hours to take effect).  If the settings are not correct, you will not be allowed to invite them.

 Whether it’s real-time messaging, virtual meetings, file sharing, or integrated project management, Microsoft Teams empowers you to collaborate seamlessly with those outside of your organization. 

DMC is a Microsoft Solutions Partner. Learn more about our Microsoft Teams expertise and contact us for your next project.

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Onboarding employees seamlessly and with no stress is crucial to employee success. As DMC has grown throughout the years, we’ve automated this process, so tasks don’t get forgotten and there is less time spent tracking down the status of these tasks.

In the past, we have automated the process of creating onboarding tasks and assigning those onboarding tasks using a SharePoint Designer workflow, in conjunction with SharePoint of course. As SharePoint Designer is being phased out, we have switched to using Power Automate, modern SharePoint lists, and page views to make this solution more robust and keep up with the current Microsoft technology practices.

The Onboarding Process

Onboarding is a process that happens over time both before an employee starts and continuing well into their first few weeks or months. In SharePoint, we create a custom list to track the status of each new employee depending on what stage they are in. We add new employees to the list as soon as they accept an offer, and then the workflow is immediately started. The different stages are defined based on how many days until or after the employees start date. Our workflow allows for these stages to be dynamic and allow for changes over time.

Once the stages are defined, the super users of this solution can define the different tasks that need to be assigned to different people throughout the onboarding process. These tasks have expiration dates relative to the start dates of the new employees.

These tasks are configurable and customizable to your company. There are many small details that go into the onboarding process, and these details are always changing. We create a SharePoint list that acts as the "template" for all onboarding tasks. This ensures that your team can update the process when needed. The workflow uses this template to automatically copy and assign the specific tasks needed for the new employee into the Onboarding Task List. 

When the new employee falls into the defined stage, depending on how many days they are from their start date, the different tasks will be automatically added into the Onboarding Task List and notify the employee assigned to each task that they have new onboarding tasks to complete. The email includes a link leading directly to a view of their tasks. Users can sort/filter their view at their convenience and check a box to mark tasks as complete when done.

Building the Workflow

DMC builds this custom workflow using Microsoft Power Automate combined with SharePoint. There is no custom code. We only use the features that come with both Power Automate and SharePoint. The structure of this workflow works great for any company that is looking to streamline the process of onboarding their employees.

Learn more about our Digital Workplace Solutions and contact DMC today for help implementing your own workflow process!

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Templates

Both tools have templates available out of the box to get you started.

SharePoint:

Monday:

You can choose to work from a template or start with a blank list with either tool. Let’s go over some basic features that you might be looking for:

Adding/Modifying a Column

You can easily add a column directly from either user interface. Previous iterations of SharePoint required configuration knowledge to set up a SharePoint list. With the modern list, a lot of settings are easily found on the user interface. You can also move around columns and change their size in both tools easily.

SharePoint:

Monday:

Adding Comments

Both tools allow you to easily thread comments regarding a specific item and tag users; however, in SharePoint Lists, since your users are already present in the Office 365 suite, they will be more likely to have the ability to access your list. The SharePoint user experience notified us that Natalie did not have access, and allowed me to grant it to her.

SharePoint:

Monday:

Version History

This is used if you want the ability to see how the item has changed, who changed it, and when you would utilize the version history.

SharePoint:

Monday:

Many other features have parity between the two:

• Custom permissions levels and access for internal and external users per board
• No code is required for automations (send emails on triggers, update items)
• No code forms for inputting data
• Data visualization within a click of a button
• Creating views with filters, sorting, and summing
• Bulk or Batching Editing
• Attachments

When you complete your board, you will have a professional-looking board that you can use for a variety of purposes.

SharePoint:

Monday:

So, Why Choose SharePoint?

SharePoint is a great software tool to use for integration with other Microsoft platforms. You are already in Office 365, so you can easily integrate your data, documents, and users right into the boards without additional configuration. For example, Microsoft Teams integrates with Microsoft Lists seamlessly, so you can keep the conversation and the items in the same user interface.

You can hover over an individual and automatically pull in their photo, contact information, title, and other important information right from Active Directory without advanced configuration, since we are in the Office 365 suite.

Depending on how many columns you have, you might need to display them in a way that is more digestible to your users.  For example, here is an example of an onboarding process that is used to see where a new client is within the stages using advanced formatting.

Once you need SharePoint for advanced configurations that are beyond the scope of what an individual can do, DMC can help!

Customization possibilities are endless in SharePoint. Using either advanced configuration or complete custom application development, with SharePoint, anything is possible. DMC is a leading expert in SharePoint and can help with these advanced needs, like creating advanced custom forms, implementing complex workflow management, and complicated data analytics.

One of the most overwhelming differences between SharePoint and Monday is the price. Following the trial period, the price of Monday significantly increases as they use a tiered, per-user pricing method. This can become especially expensive for larger companies. Monday may start free, but it does not stay free if you want to use the platform for your business.

Regardless of how you are using either tool, you want to keep permissions in mind and think about your governance. To prevent people from editing your lists or making other changes, you should create a plan for how you are going to maintain your content moving forward.

Microsoft is always working to update the platform and keep it modern, and the added feature in Modern SharePoint Lists has brought it to the next level.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we pride ourselves on our SharePoint expertise and want to help you organize your company’s information in the best way possible.

Learn more about DMC’s SharePoint expertise and contact us today for your next project.

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For many organizations, the need to adapt quickly during the pandemic prevented them from taking a thoughtful approach to introducing users to these new applications. We are now seeing many clients reach out to DMC for assistance with re-thinking and trying to optimize their Office 365 platform.  As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, DMC is ready to help your team redesign and apply best practices to your Office 365 solutions. To encourage adoption and facilitate the transition, DMC also provides training for many of the Office 365 applications.

Below you will find descriptions of the apps and tools that are included with most Microsoft Office 365 Licenses:

SharePoint

Organizations can use SharePoint to create a secure intranet to store, organize, share, and collaborate on files and other information. Files and other content saved to SharePoint is securely stored with a version history that captures each edit made to the content. You can even revert to a previous version of a file or quickly recover a file that you accidentally deleted. From asset lists to standard operating procedures, SharePoint stores information and then makes searching for something as simple as typing key phrases into its search bar. In addition to collaboration capabilities, SharePoint also makes it easy to create and update intranet sites for top-down messaging. This is great for keeping your organization updated on internal news.

OneDrive

OneDrive is the Office 365 tool that allows users to securely store files in the Microsoft cloud and provides access to these files from multiple devices (e.g. PC, tablet, mobile phone, etc.). Like Dropbox, OneDrive is a place to store your personal work files that probably won’t need to be accessed by a larger group of people (though OneDrive does provide the ability to share files with others inside and outside your organization).  This is in contrast to SharePoint which is designed for team, department, and companywide storage and sharing (and potentially with external users as well). Think of OneDrive as your personal file storage tool that can be accessed from multiple devices.

Teams

Organizations can keep their conversations going with Teams. Through Microsoft Teams, you can take a text-based chat with other individuals or a group of people and seamlessly transition the conversation to a virtual meeting with the click of a button. The integration with other tools like SharePoint, Planner, Power Automate, and Calendar makes Teams a top choice if you were to select only one Microsoft 365 application to get started with. Files stored in Teams actually use SharePoint features to make collaborating on a shared document easy for anyone in the group. A team can set up their workspace with integrated apps to show Power BI dashboards, SharePoint lists, OneNote notebooks, and much more. Teams facilitates communication both internally and externally, making it the ideal communication hub.

OneNote

This free-form note-taking platform allows for a team to easily capture information, make drawings, and save screenshots or audio commentary in a collaborative notebook. These notebooks can then be linked to a project site, Teams group, recurring meeting, or stand alone within a personal OneDrive.

Planner

Using the Kanban method to manage tasks, Microsoft Planner allows users to arrange tasks in a block formation. These boards use checklists, labels, and more to make the board content-rich and user-friendly with drag and drop options for collaboration.

Power BI

Power BI visualizes data analytics with dashboards. It can link data with over 200 other connectors like CRM, Salesforce, SQL databases, ERP, marketing analytics, and SharePoint to display visual representations of the data.

Power Automate

An organization can create automated processes for business workflows using Power Automate. These workflows can vary from onboarding workflows, time off approvals, document approvals, and creating storage locations in a structured way.

Power Apps

This tool allows a user to create no-code/low-code applications in minutes. It connects to hundreds of data sources and has step-by-step tours to teach users how to make simple apps for an organization’s needs, such as creating digital forms to capture data from others. Power Apps data is stored securely and requires authentication to access its forms and data.  Power Apps forms are often paired with Power Automate workflows to streamline business processes.

Forms

To very quickly and easily collect survey data from participants internally or outside of the organization, Forms allows either authenticated or unauthenticated users to respond to requests for information.  The responses can be captured either anonymously or not. Forms allows the captured data to be viewed in a variety of ways, including Excel file format, web form, or visually represented in charts. Like Power Apps, Forms can be supplemented with Power Automate workflows.

With Microsoft’s intuitive Office 365 platform, users can easily adopt its applications and tools into their daily work routine. As use of these tools grows within an organization, the more important it is to design and plan the processes and best practices that govern use of this powerful platform. Without understanding how all of these applications and tools fit together within the Office 365 platform, an organization is likely to face problems with efficacy, user adoption, governance, security, and solution redundancies.

How Can DMC Help?

DMC can help customers at all levels of the Office 365 experience. If your company is just starting to use Office 365, DMC can construct a future-proof architecture to set up your department and/or your entire organization for success. Or, if you have been using Office 365 and are learning that something has not been designed properly or not optimally structured, we are well-versed in finding and resolving these types of issues.

At DMC, we start with a Discovery phase. During this phase, we work with the client to learn how the company currently uses or wants to use each of the tools. Once we learn about the organization’s needs and methods of use, we create a tailored approach to address the challenges the client is facing. Our team of subject matter experts will architect a solution for the future that can grow as your organization’s adoption of Office 365 grows.

When we’ve finished helping to optimize the organization’s Office 365 platform, we can provide various trainings to help your users adopt best practices when using these tools. Keep an eye out for some of our webinars in the future!

Learn more about DMC’s Microsoft 365 Solutions and contact us to start your next project. 

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With so many tools available, we recommend that our clients plan their project management approach in advance. We help them discuss your internal and external needs and think through how to best utilize the Office 365 offering. 

In this video, I cover the pros and cons of the various ways to store project documents in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud platform. I compare Microsoft Teams vs. SharePoint and using libraries vs. metadata. I will also review some best practices and pro tips for planning project management tools effectively.

Learn more about using Teams and SharePoint for project management. 

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As co-chair of the Chicago WIT chapter, I am especially excited to further WIT’s mission:

• Build a global community of like-minded women who meet regularly.
• Increase the number of young women pursuing careers in technology.
• Grow opportunities for women working at every level of the industry.
• Scale our reach to empower the women across the world who need it most.

Both women and men are invited to join and participate in the WIT Network. Below are the details for our first Chicago event. 

Event Registration and Logistics

You’re Invited! Join the Woman In Technology – Chicagoland Chapter for a night of networking and wine on October 23! The WIT Network is a proud community of professionals across the world that believe in making it easier for women to imagine, begin and develop a career in technology.  

October 23, 2018
4-6 p.m. CST

D.O.C Wine Bar
326 Yorktown Shopping Center
Lombard, IL 60148

Agenda

• 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Presentation: What is the WIT Network?
• 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Open Discussion: Recommendations for future topics and feedback on what you hope to gain from the community
• 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – Networking: Meet the members over drinks and appetizers.

BONUS! The WIT Network is extending a one year free membership through October 31st. This will be available for all men and woman in our community. Register here to take advantage of this offer.

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Document Management in SharePoint allows you to find documents easily and determine information about the document before you open it. For example, using metadata allows you to tag documents with two different categories without having to make duplicates into two different folders.

I created this quick video to further explain how to simplify your document management with SharePoint metadata. I hope you find it useful!
 

Learn more about DMC's SharePoint solutions. 

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