Everyone knows the drudgery of having to change their passwords - capital letter here, number there, and oh, I have to include a special character now?  I'm not going to remember that.

Ever get frustrated with your phone's personal assitant not being able to understand you?  Or have you received a transcribed voicemail that made no sense?  Those days are numbered thanks to innovations at Microsoft - their AI's voice recognititon engine error rate has now reached an all time low of 5.1%; comparable to the error rate of humans' comprehension of speech.  Microsoft credits "neural-net based acoustic and language models" for this improvement, as well as giving its AI the ability to analyze context when deciphering speech.

One of the most terrifying crises an enterprise will face is the hacking of their data or the hostile takeover of their servers, a practice carried out with malicious code known as ransomware.  Production coming to a halt is the smallest worry of these situations - costs to repair, replace, and reformat drives can be extensive and even then is no guarantee that all data will be recovered.  And, in some industries there are serious legal and business consequences in response to breaches of customer data.  But what about cloud data storage?  That offsite data can be the most vulnerable.

Many businesses and schools have taken advantage of the comprehensive tools available in Microsoft 365, and the introduction of Microsoft Teams to the suite expands this functionality even further.  Microsoft Teams is designed to improve communication within an enterprise by "bringing people, conversations, and content together" - including video and voice communications as well as threaded conversations organized by user-created topics and tabs.

Gartner has released its most recent Magic Quadrant report on the state of the Enterprise Content Management industry.  In it they have found:

• By 2018, 50% of enterprises will manage their content using a hybrid content architecture.

• By 2018, more than 20% of the enterprise content management solution sales will address multiorganization "ecosystem" content.

• By 2018, enterprise file synchronization and sharing will be a standard capability of enterprise content management and collaboration offerings.