Built into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Bookings enables your organisation to allow customers to book an appointment with your organisation. This is truly an amazing feature which can help reduce administration processes for your organisation and individuals within it. Being part of Microsoft 365, it is a web based application that is accessible by any modern web browser, highly secure and very easy to configure. It works seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange and other Microsoft 365 products which makes it a worth while solution for many businesses.

Microsoft Power Apps seems to be the next evolution for mobile development. This technology not only allows business to develop cross platform applications, but it also allows applications to be built very quickly. As with all business requirements, a proper analysis has to be conducted in order to evaluate whether or not this technology is suitable for your business.

A Content Management System (CMS) is software that allows a dedicated team or group of different users to publish, edit and approve digital content. CMS technologies are used internally within business but it is also used on publicly facing websites. The main purpose of a CMS is to allow digital content to be updated by business user's quickly and efficiently, without the need for specialized web developer skills.

Here at Dingbat Studios, we prefer Umbraco to create websites for our clients and it is our primary CMS used internally too. We have had experience with most other CMS technologies on the market, however, we think that Umbraco is the perfect solution for any sized organisation. Our experience with this technology has been amazing, not only because of its flexibility, power, speed and ease of development, but because its free, built upon Microsoft .NET and its open source.

Most software development teams use the Agile methodology or some variant of it in their development cycle, but what actually is it? Agile methodology is a type of project management process, mainly used for software development delivery, where work and associated solutions are developed through the collaborative effort between the "self-organising" teams (e.g. developers) and cross-functional teams and their customers (e.g. Business stakeholders). Well what does this mean?