Nov 19, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps, People and Process
Predictions are that New Zealanders will soon be storing most of their data on the Cloud. Will there be trade-offs? There’s really no question about Cloud computing’s enablement of increased profitability and wider economic growth, but New Zealanders would be forgiven...
Jul 2, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps, ERP
Maybe its a trait, maybe it started with my Dad making me eat everything on my plate as a child, whatever the reason I have a real dislike of waste. Under utilising, whether it be the leftovers at dinner, excess building materials after a DIY project or not using your...
Jun 16, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps, ERP
In an excellent move Microsoft announced that businesses running Dynamics NAV Solutions on premise could move to the CSP (Cloud Service provider) licencing program. So what does this mean? For these customers it is the paying of an annual licence fee for their...
May 4, 2020 | BI and Reporting, Cloud and DevOps, Data
With the proliferation of analytics platforms and tools (on Azure and off), organisations looking to modernize their BI workloads are unsure about how to proceed. Walkerscott ran a few webinars earlier this year where we shared our view of moving Business Intelligence...
Apr 28, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps, Data, ERP
For Business Central online, there is a limit to how much data we allow each tenant to store in the environment (database). If a tenant exceeds this limit, we contact the partner and work with them to reduce the size of the data. The limit for the size of each...
Apr 16, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps
Azure Functions are Microsoft’s solution for the execution of code in a “serverless” environment – that is, where you worry about the code, and leave the Azure Functions service to worry about the hosting infrastructure. There are three hosting plans for Azure...
Mar 25, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps
In a previous blog around Azure Governance we spoke about standardisation of configuration and deployment. This leads us into another topic – Infrastructure as Code (IaC). What is Infrastructure as Code? As soon as you hear the word code, people tend to think...
Mar 11, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps
A frequent question we get asked is how to articulate a business case for Azure Governance in an existing environment? Why spend the time, money and effort doing this when systems are already operational? It’s important to understand what we mean by Azure and Azure...
Mar 4, 2020 | Cloud and DevOps
We were asked by a client about how to choose between Microsoft’s Azure Logic Apps or Azure Functions for an integration project. This post is the response that we gave to our client and will help you compare and choose between the two. How do you choose which one is...
Nov 13, 2018 | Cloud and DevOps
Migrate Your Application to Azure with Confidence Register Today Walkerscott looks at four companies: ASOS, British Airways, Rockwell Automation & GEICO. Learn how the Microsoft Azure cloud helps them succeed in their respective industries. Although each of these...