“We’re starving for data!” This is something I regularly hear as I meet with stakeholders from companies large and small. Perhaps the most painful message came from the Director of Marketing of a large restaurant chain. …

Happy Star Wars Day! It is hard to deny that the “Star Wars” movie franchise changed the way we imagined the future. The technology showcased “in a galaxy far, far away” may seem merely science fiction, but we have made significant technological advances since the world was introduced to “Star…

War room, business operations center, command center, mission control, Houston … No matter what your company calls it, you have one. — It’s the central hub of activity that monitors your entire business, delivering critical updates to key people across the company. Running an effective war room traditionally requires massive amounts of data and a critical 24/7 team that can translate the abstract to the actionable.

The days of static dashboards and reports are gone. Data visualization tools make revealing insights easier than ever before… but you need to distinguish the signal from the noise. WATCH: Unleashing your data through UX webinar The capabilities and flexibility of data visualization tools like Power BI are truly game-changing…

The current business landscape requires finding more and better ways for teams to collaborate while working remotely. During its Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft made some big announcements for Teams, which come less than six months after the improvements announced at the last Ignite conference in September. But internal Teams upgrades…

Although the localization team at Blueprint is no stranger to working from home, the transition to full-time remote work presented some challenges. In the first week of March, before the official stay-at-home order was issued in Washington state, the localization team at Blueprint already had a contingency of remote team members working from home across the country. …

Blueprint declared August “Hackathon Month,” joining forces with Databricks to host three week-long regionally focused hackathons in one month. While Blueprint has hosted hackathons in the past, they’ve always been in person, so pivoting to a virtual experience in the age of COVID-19 came with a steep learning curve. …

What if you could give your video call the look of a news broadcast? At Blueprint, we recently hosted the Innovation Cup 2020 and as the MC, I wanted my video to really pop and be something special. In this tutorial, I will show you how to take your Microsoft Teams video meetings to the next level. …