Modernize Communication Workshop
Modernize Communication Workshop
Showcase modern calling capabilities and
build a plan to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Phone
About the workshop
Now more than ever, businesses need a modern voice solution and phone system capabilities that combines unified communication and teamwork. Microsoft Teams Phone provides the features organizations need to deliver seamless, collaborative experiences for employees, business partners, and customers. Because implementation of calling solutions can be complex and involves network remediation, Microsoft 365 service deployment, telephone number provisioning/porting, and device deployment, customers need partners with this highly specialized skillset.
Introducing the Modernize Communications Workshop – a modular engagement to experience the vision for Microsoft Teams Phone and advanced communication scenarios.
This workshop is designed to guide you through the process of a simplified enterprise voice solution with reliable, high-quality, integrated calling. Through ‘Art of the Possible’ demonstrations, use-case design, and deep-dive planning you will obtain actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams phone.
Assess
Gather information on the current environment and practices for calling
Art of the Possible
Showcase modern calling capabilities powered by Microsoft Teams Phone
Build the Plan
Build the plan for how to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Phone
- An evaluation of your current telephony and
PBX needs - Environmental and workload analysis, including existing infrastructure and telephony state
- Demonstration of the end-to-end Microsoft Teams calling experience to showcase Microsoft Teams Phone as your telephony solution
- Direction on how to transition various user profiles into a modern collaboration and communication environment
- Showcase the rich portfolio of third-party applications and devices that can complement the Microsoft Teams Phone experience
- Customized, actionable recommendations
you can follow to enable and adopt
Microsoft Teams Phone
This workshop is funded by Microsoft and delivered by FITTS
When it comes to compliance, you need an experienced partner. Request a fully funded Modernize communication Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria.
Fully Funded Workshops
Workshops
Book your workshops to help realise the value of technologies in your business, gain maximum value from your investment and transform the way employees work.
Every workshop is tailored to your organisation’s situation to include an assessment and/or training, based on identified needs and objectives. At the end of a workshop, you will have improved insights into your opportunities and risk, with recommendations and a roadmap of actionable next steps.
Workshop benefits:
- Better resource management
- Improve collaboration
- Increases productivity
- Reduce cyber/ransomware risk
Browse workshops below – See your workshops, including what each will address, how they will be delivered and what your organisation will gain from your invested time.
Why FITTS?
FITTS has been handpicked by Microsoft as a training partner and these high-quality workshops are led by our expert certified architects and consultants. As a leading UK Gold Partner, holding four gold and six silver competencies across the Microsoft 365 and Azure solution stack, we have extensive experience in helping organisations access exclusive resources including, training, workshops, assessments and funding.
Our range of workshops cover every aspect of the modern workplace including productivity, collaboration, identity, security and compliance, and communication, with interactive and engaging sessions that bring the art of the possible to life.
Security Workshops
FITTS can support your digital transformation by providing security, privacy, and compliance solutions. Leverage Microsoft funded workshops to learn how Microsoft 365 and Azure technologies could help you keep data safe, identify and mitigate risk, manage access, and strengthen security management.
Defend against Threats with SIEM plus XDR
We can help you develop a strategic plan customized for your organization and based on the recommendations of Microsoft experts in security. You’ll gain visibility into immediate threats across email, identity, and data, plus clarity and support on how to upgrade your security posture for the long term.
Executive Order 14028
Identity is today’s control plane for digital transformation. Organizational barriers are blurring between who is in and out of your network. Cloud apps and the increasing use of personal devices and remote work mean that data is no longer centralized behind traditional network security.
Mitigate Compliance & Privacy Risks
For the majority of organizations, external cybersecurity risks have been top of mind for many years. But these organizations are now considering the risks posed by trusted insiders as an equal or even bigger threat. Organizations are beginning to recognize the importance of establishing controls that enable them to quickly identify and manage insider risks.
Protect & Govern Sensitive Data
Protecting information—wherever it goes—is critical to ensuring trust and meeting compliance requirements. But first, you need to know what data you have, where it is, how it’s being used, and compliance risks that may exist.
Secure Identities and Access
Given the complexity of identities, data, applications, and devices, it’s essential to learn how to ensure the right people are accessing the right information, securely. In this workshop, we’ll show you how identity is the fundamental pillars of an integrated security philosophy and end-to-end security strategy
Secure Multi-cloud Enviroments
We can help you develop a strategic plan customized for your organization and based on the recommendations of Microsoft experts in security. You’ll gain visibility into immediate threats and vulnerabilities across Azure, on-premises and multi-cloud environments, plus clarity and support on how to improve your security posture for the long term.
Modern Work Workshops
If there’s one thing we know, it’s that hybrid work is here to stay. From Modernise Communications to Next-Gen Endpoints and beyond, Microsoft funded workshops are designed to help you use Modern Work solutions to adapt, evolve, and thrive in a new era of flexible work while maintaining the security and integrity of your business systems and data.
Modernize Communication
This workshop guides you through the process of a simplified enterprise voice solution with reliable, high-quality, integrated calling. Through ‘Art of the Possible’ demonstrations, use-case design, and deep-dive planning you will obtain actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams phone.
Hybrid Meetings and Rooms
Hybrid working is here. This workshop showcases the ‘art of the possible’ with hybrid meetings, including actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Meetings and Microsoft Teams Room.
Microsoft 365 Digital Workforce
Productivity and teamwork are fundamental to build resilience for your people, teams, and organization.
Learn how to empower people to be more productive and secure as they adapt to new ways of working with Microsoft 365.
Endpoint Management
Today’s users are looking for more ways to remain productive while working on any device. 95% of organisations allow personal devices in the workspace. All these devices add additional risks, when you consider that 70 million smartphones are lost every year.
Enable Frontline Workers
As the hub for teamwork, Microsoft Teams is designed to help organizations improve collaboration and increase efficiency by automating key business processes. With the Enable Frontline Workshop, FITTS will work through various frontline worker challenges and pain points to identify top prioritized scenarios for their frontline workforce.
Microsoft Viva
In today’s world, employees want more flexible remote work options, and meaningful in-person collaboration. Empowering people to thrive in a more flexible work world requires rethinking everything—from how you empower managers, to how you create culture, to how you reimagine the employee experience.
Microsoft Viva Insight
In today’s world, employees want more flexible remote work options, and meaningful in-person collaboration. Empowering people to thrive in a more flexible work world requires rethinking everything—from how you empower managers, to how you create culture, to how you reimagine the employee experience.
Next Gen Windows
In our new world of work, the endpoint is the new workplace, and hybrid work is driving the endpoint strategy. The shift to remote and hybrid work represents a shift in how we think about providing people with the tools they need.
Microsoft Syntex
Syntex integrates content seamlessly into collaboration and workflows – turning content from a cost, into an advantage. It automatically reads, tags and indexes high volumes of content and connects it where it’s needed – in search, applications, and as reusable knowledge. And it manages your content throughout its lifecycle, with robust analytics, security and automated retention.
Do More with Less Workshops
Navigate market uncertainty by empowering your people to Do More with Less
Do more with less
Today’s leaders are looking not just to create impact faster, but to prioritize the investments that will drive the most important and meaningful business outcomes for their organizations. They are optimizing and streamlining so they can succeed where it matters most. At the same time, pressures from the evolving global economy are requiring organizations to reduce costs and optimize operations as they continue to shift to a world of hybrid work.
Secure remote working
The workshop addresses agile work scenarios and how to enable employees to be productive and secure with Microsoft 365 whether working onsite or remotely.
Security, Identity & Compliance
Improve your security posture with a Microsoft Security Workshop and learn how to put next-generation security operations to work for you with the Azure Sentinel add-on module.
Teams calling
Understnad calling capabilities through immersive experiences, use-cases, and deep-dive planning, resulting in actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Calling with Phone system.
Teams meetings
Identify and understand your organisations priorities while focusing on specific scenarios that drive meetings culture transformation.
Office 365 Change Readiness
Discover the ways of working by people across your organisation and how the changes being introduced can be mitigated to impact people and the business.
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Want to explore how FITTS can meet your needs with digital transformation that truly matches your business? Contact us today and let’s get started.
Let's talk
Want to explore how FITTS can meet your needs with digital transformation that truly matches your business? Contact us today and let’s get started.
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Secure Remote Working Workshop
Secure Remote Working Workshop
This two-day remotely delivered workshop is focused on identifying secure work from anywhere scenarios that align to your business needs, addressing Microsoft Teams, the foundations of Identity and Security as well as securing mobile access.
We’ll discuss the most critical scenarios to enable secure work from anywhere available with Microsoft 365. We’ll evaluate your options and leave you with a concrete deployment plan and next steps.
About the workshop
- Evaluate your secure work from anywhere options and business implications
- Envision and enable secure work from anywhere scenarios
- Concrete deployment plan, timelines and next actions
With this two-day remotely delivered workshop, we’ll show you how you can use Microsoft technologies to:
- Provide meeting experiences to connect teams remotely and onsite
- Simplify day-to-day work with apps and workflows
- Connect people to drive culture, change and communication
- Manage and secure any device
The workshop is intended for security decision-makers such as:
- C-Suite Business Descision Makers
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Security Officer (CSO)
- Data Protection Officer
- Data Governance Officer
- IT Security
- IT Compliance
- Data Governance
- IT Operations
Teamwork and collaboration are fundamental to build resilience for your people, teams, and organization. Our goal is to empower people to be productive and secure as they adapt to new ways of working with Microsoft 365. We’ll work with you to:
- Understand your secure work from anywhere goals and objectives
- Envision priority scenarios with a customer immersion experience
- Define your existing and desired work from anywhere scenarios
- Identification of potential blockers and challenges
- Environmental and workload analysis
- A list of actionable recommendations to implement
- Develop a joint action plan based on key results, recommendations, and next steps
- Teams and security adoption kit, including end-user training, workload introductions, and support resources.
This workshop is funded by Microsoft and delivered by FITTS.
When it comes to secure, remote work, you need an experienced partner. Request a fully funded Microsoft Secure Remote Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria
Empower your people to be productive and secure from anywhere with a Secure Work from Anywhere Workshop.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria
Microsoft Teams Meetings Workshop
Microsoft Teams Meetings Workshop
Get to know modern meetings like you have never seen before with the Microsoft Teams Meetings Workshop.
Today, organizations rely on teamwork with employees working on twice as many teams as they did just five years ago, and information workers spending 50% more time collaborating with co-workers, outside contractors, suppliers and customers. To succeed, you need collaboration and communication tools that empower your workforce to be more agile, efficient, secure so they can stay connected.
About the workshop
- Gather information on the current environment and practices for meeting
- Showcase modern experiences powered by Microsft Teams
- Build the plan to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms
Introducing the Meetings and Meeting Rooms Workshop – a modular engagement to identify and understand business priorities while focusing on specific scenarios that drive meetings culture transformation. This workshop engagement is designed to showcase modern meetings through ‘art of the possible’ immersive experiences, use case design and deep dive planning resulting with actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms.
Today, organizations rely on teamwork with employees working on twice as many teams as they did just five years ago, and information workers spending 50% more time collaborating with co-workers, outside contractors, suppliers and customers. To succeed, you need collaboration and communication tools that empower your workforce to be more agile, efficient, secure so they can stay connected.
The way we work has evolved and meeting needs have changed with employees being more mobile and working remotely. In fact, 56% of meetings have at least one remote attendee and 38% of remote attendees join via mobile. Microsoft Teams delivers a unique end-to-end meeting experience that brings back the human element of face-to-face interaction while helping people stay focused before, during and after the meeting.
Across this three-day workshop delivered remotely over a few sessions, we’ll partner with you to strengthen your organization’s approach to effective meetings through Microsoft Teams.
It’s our mission to help you achieve greater business value through the usage and adoption of Microsoft Teams and participating in this workshop tailored for your organization. Workshop deliverables include:
- An evaluation of your current meetings and meeting rooms capabilities
- Art of the Possible immersion experience to showcase Microsoft Teams as your meetings and rooms solution
- Direction on how to transform meetings and audio conferencing across your entire organization
- Customized report-out with actionable recommendations you can follow to ensure your employees and suppliers can meet seamlessly and share information securely in a modern meetings environment
This workshop is funded by Microsoft and delivered by FITTS.
When it comes to the complexity of Microsoft Teams, you need an experienced partner. Request a fully funded Microsoft Teams Meetings Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria
When it comes to compliance, you need an experienced partner. Request a fully funded Microsoft Security Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria
Microsoft Teams Calling Workshop
Microsoft Teams Calling Workshop
Now more than ever, businesses need a modern voice solution and phone system capabilities that combines unified communication and teamwork. Calling in Teams provides the features organisations need to deliver seamless, collaborative experiences for employees, business partners and customers. Because implementation of calling solutions can be complex and involves network remediation, O365 service deployment, telephone number provisioning/porting and device deployment, you need a partner with this highly specialized skillset.
About the workshop
- Gather information on the current environment and practices for calling
- Showcase modern calling capabilities powered by Microsoft Teams
- Build the plan for how to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Calling
Introducing the Teams Calling Workshop – a modular engagement to experience the vision for Microsoft Teams with Phone System capabilities and Advanced Communication scenarios. This workshop is designed to guide you through the process of a simplified enterprise voice solution with reliable, high-quality, integrated calling. Through ‘art of the possible’ demonstrations, use-case design, and deep-dive planning you will obtain actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Calling with Phone system.
“The main driver was modernizing the workplace to improve user productivity. We wanted everything, including voice, in one place and to give users something they would really like. “ – Architect, beverage
Now more than ever, businesses need a modern voice solution and phone system capabilities that combines unified communication and teamwork. Calling in Teams provides the features organizations need to deliver seamless, collaborative experiences for employees, business partners and customers. Because implementation of calling solutions can be complex and involves network remediation, O365 service deployment, telephone number provisioning/porting and device deployment, customers need partners with this highly specialized skillset.
This workshop is designed to guide you through the process of a simplified enterprise voice solution with reliable, high-quality, integrated calling. Through ‘art of the possible’ demonstrations, use-case design, and deep-dive planning you will obtain actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Calling with Phone system.
During this one-day workshop delivered remotely over a few sessions, we’ll partner with you to help you evaluate your current telephony and PBX needs. The key deliverables include:
- Environmental and workload analysis, including existing infrastructure and telephony state
- Demonstration of the end-to-end Teams Calling experience to showcase Microsoft Teams Calling as your telephony solution
- Direction on how to transition various user profiles into a modern collaboration and communication environment
- Showcase the rich portfolio of 3rd party applications and devices that can complement the Teams Calling experience
- Customised, actionable recommendations you can follow to enable and adopt Teams for Calling
This workshop is funded by Microsoft and delivered by FITTS.
When it comes to Teams, you need a specialised partner. Request a fully funded Teams Calling Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria
When it comes to compliance, you need an experienced partner. Request a fully funded Microsoft Security Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria
Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Workshops
Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Workshops
Delivered by FITTS with Microsoft funding available for eligible customers, our workshops are underpinned by the Microsoft Commercial Incentives [MCI] Programme and are designed to help you realise the value of Microsoft technologies in your business, gain real value from your investment, and transform the way you work.
Our range of workshops cover every aspect of the modern workplace including productivity, collaboration, identity, security and compliance, and communication, with interactive and engaging sessions that bring the art of the possible to life.
Browse our workshops below.
Security funded workshops
FITTS can support your digital transformations by providing security, privacy, and compliance solutions. Leverage Microsoft cloud accelerator workshops to learn how Microsoft 365 and Azure technologies could help you keep data safe, identify and mitigate risk, manage access, and strengthen security management.
Threat Protection
Businesses today are managing a growing volume of data and alerts while dealing with tight budgets and vulnerable legacy systems. Get help achieving your broader security objectives—and identify current and real threats—by scheduling a Microsoft Threat Protection Workshop.
Discover Sensitive Data
Protecting information—wherever it goes—is critical to ensuring trust and meeting compliance requirements. But first, you need to know what data you have, where it is, how it’s being used, and compliance risks that may exist.
Endpoint Management
This workshop will show you how to leverage intelligent security, risk-based controls, zero-touch provisioning, advanced analytics, and deep integration to the Microsoft products you already use.
Hybrid Cloud Security
Given the volume and complexity of identities, data, apps, endpoints, and infrastructure, it’s essential to learn how secure your organisation is right now, and how to mitigate and protect against threats moving forward.
Modern Work funded workshops
If there’s one thing we know, it’s that hybrid work is here to stay. From Modernise Communications to Next-Gen Endpoints and beyond, Microsoft cloud accelerator workshops are designed to help you use Modern Work solutions to adapt, evolve, and thrive in a new era of flexible work while maintaining the security and integrity of your business systems and data.
Modernise Communication
This workshop guides you through the process of a simplified enterprise voice solution with reliable, high-quality, integrated calling. Through ‘Art of the Possible’ demonstrations, use-case design, and deep-dive planning you will obtain actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams phone.
Hybrid Meetings
Hybrid working is here. This workshop showcases the ‘art of the possible’ with hybrid meetings, including actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Meetings and Microsoft Teams Room.
Transition to Cloud
Learn how to empower people to be more productive and secure as they adapt to new ways of working with Microsoft 365. We’ll discuss the scenarios available with Microsoft 365 to enable secure work from anywhere. We’ll evaluate your options and leave you with a concrete deployment plan and next steps.
Secure remote working
The workshop addresses agile work scenarios and how to enable employees to be productive and secure with Microsoft 365 whether working onsite or remotely.
Security, Identity & Compliance
Improve your security posture with a Microsoft Security Workshop and learn how to put next-generation security operations to work for you with the Azure Sentinel add-on module.
Teams calling
Understnad calling capabilities through immersive experiences, use-cases, and deep-dive planning, resulting in actionable recommendations to deploy and adopt Microsoft Teams Calling with Phone system.
Teams meetings
Identify and understand your organisations priorities while focusing on specific scenarios that drive meetings culture transformation.
Office 365 Change Readiness
Discover the ways of working by people across your organisation and how the changes being introduced can be mitigated to impact people and the business.
Let's talk
Want to explore how FITTS can meet your needs with digital transformation that truly matches your business? Contact us today and let’s get started.
Let's talk
Want to explore how FITTS can meet your needs with digital transformation that truly matches your business? Contact us today and let’s get started.
Executive Order 14028 Workshop
Executive Order 14028 Workshop
Are you aware of suspicious user and sign-in behaviour in your environment? Are you threatened by ongoing suspicious requests?
About the workshop
Identity is today’s control plane for digital transformation. Organizational barriers are blurring between who is in and out of your network. Cloud apps and the increasing use of personal devices and remote work mean that data is no longer centralized behind traditional network security.
With identity attacks on the rise, this workshop will show you how to stop tomorrow’s data breaches by securing identities today.
We will help you find identity risks happening now in your environment, gain insights into your application landscape, and improve your identity security posture.
- Understands how Azure Active Directory address the Executive Order 14028 requirements
- Gain insights into apps used in your environment – even ones unsanctioned by IT
- Understand how to prevent identities from being compromised
- Learn how to reduce costs and improve business agility and security with simplified app access
- The workshop fee is funded by Microsoft and delivered by FITTS consultants
The foundation of cybersecurity is to quickly and accurately identify authorized users and give them proper access to the information and tools they need to do their job. Our goal is to provide you with tools to protect your authorized users’ identities so you can authenticate credentials and manage file access while still giving users the freedom to collaborate with others.
We’ll work with you to:
- Mitigate your access risk by protecting, monitoring, and auditing access to critical assets through identity governance
- Outline strong authentication methods like native certificate-based authentication and phishing resistant multi factor authentication
- Help you understand situations where your identity might be compromised with remediation steps
- Improve migration and governance to align with Executive Order 14028 guidance
The workshop is intended for security decision-makers such as:
- C-SUITE
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Security Officer (CSO)
- Identity and or Application owners/decision-makers
- IT Security
- IT Operations
- Security Architect
- Security Engineers
- Application business owners
This workshop is funded by Microsoft and delivered by FITTS
When it comes to compliance, you need an experienced partner. Request a fully funded Executive Order 14028 Workshop today.
*Microsoft funding of $2,500 based on meeting Microsoft's eligibility criteria.
Office 365 Change Readiness Workshop
Office 365 Change Readiness Workshop
Every change in your business has an impact. A new tool, process, or requirement affects your employees. To make your change meaningful (and successful), employee adoption is crucial. We believe people drive change, not organisations. That’s why we make sure your people are firmly at the centre of your business change strategy. With our people-first adoption change management solution (ACM), you can ensure your business change investment is truly realised.
About the workshop
- Identify the key areas in which change needs to take place
- Understand how to apply change and when
- Assess the impact of changes to your business
- Define the change actions required to mitigate impact
The purpose of the workshop is to discover the ways of working by people across your organisation and how the changes being introduced can be mitigated to impact people and the business. This free, 2 hour, remotely delivered session aims to:
- Understand the Office 365 applications being rolled-out and how they can help improve employees work by way of collaboration and communication.
- Successfully transition people from the applications they are using now, to Microsoft Office products in order to encourage an aligned workplace.
- Explore the business scenarios potentially impacted by the new functionality.
- Identify specific impacts to the business including (but not limited to) people, process, organisation, policy/rules, technology, data and third parties.
- Suggest mitigation actions to minimise disruption to impacted audiences and aid change acceptance to ensure the transition and adoption of technology is straightforward.
An adequate representation of your business workforce is needed to successfully identify and analyse the change impacts. Attendees should represent key core functions of the business and functions that will potentially be highly impacted by the solutions being delivered such as Hr, IT, Finance, Marketing to name a few.
- The suggested Change Actions articulated by participants – recorded for each impact
- A list of Change Actions that could be transferred and communicated to your communications team to inform the communications plan or incorporated into a project plan with actions
- Recommended change artefacts including guidance materials, FAQs etc to ensure maximum adoption and employee satisfaction.
Request your free Office 365 Change Readiness Workshop today and start realising your technology investment.
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