Barhead Solutions

We are thrilled to announce Barhead Solutions has been named the 2024 Microsoft ANZ Social Impact Partner of the Year! Barhead was recognised for the 4th time at the Partner of the Year Awards for our work with Marrickville Legal Centre, Environmental Defenders Office and Women's Legal Service Queensland in developing Consensus for Purpose, a legal practice management system aimed at helping community legal centres (CLCs) provide legal representation in disadvantaged communities. It is an honour working with our partner CLCs, led by Vasili Maroulis, Nadia Bromley and David Morris, to improve access to justice in Australia. A big thank you to Microsoft ANZ Managing Director Steven Worrall and Chief Partner Officer Vanessa Sorenson for their executive support! Special thanks to the Microsoft Not-for-Profit team Justin Spelhaug, James Hutchinson, Glen Hoagland and Emma Tomlin for their invaluable support! And congratulations to our Co-founder John Orrock, CEO Ken Struthers, Marketing Director Alvin Paronda and the Barhead team on this achievement – all the team's hard work has paid off!  Read more: https://lnkd.in/g9w4ipnB #MSPartner #PartnersMakeMorePossible #communitylegalcentres #legaltech #legalinnovation #BarheadSolutions

For #AI to improve customer and workforce experiences, what do businesses need to do? To drive business value with AI, organisations need to: ☑️ Upgrade tech architecture with a focus on data readiness. ☑️ Familiarise themselves with generative AI use cases and how they might support your business needs. ☑️ Assess the number of business units and processes, length of time in production, and age of deployments in your organisation to reveal patterns that may point to opportunities or blockers. ☑️ Define objectives for each use case, weigh ‘build versus buy’ strategies, and partner with trusted providers that can help navigate the intricacies of establishing AI-centric operations. ☑️ Create supportive operating models that foster a culture of agility and experimentation and are backed by leadership support. To learn more about #AIreadiness and #AIenablement, download this Microsoft ebook: https://lnkd.in/gzdzcj9c #technologystrategy #BarheadSolutions 

Barhead Solutions, an award-winning Microsoft Partner, is #hiring! Our Global Delivery Centre in Manila is looking for an Application Support Developer (D365 F&O) to join our team. To apply, click here: https://lnkd.in/gwP4Crs4. Or you can send your CV to recruitmentph@barhead.com Duhanni Rose Marin | Iris Cuabo

🎦Microsoft Copilot Studio explained in under 10 minutes: https://lnkd.in/gGtg8VGW In this video, Microsoft MVP and Barhead Solutions Tech Evangelist Lisa Crosbie takes you through #CopilotStudio, a low-code tool that you can use to build your own standalone Copilot for internal business use or external customer facing scenarios, or to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot to connect to other business systems. The explainer video goes through: ☑️ Comparison between Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio ☑️ Copilot Studio's place in the Copilot stack ☑️ Copilot Studio's core capabilities and use cases If you want to learn more about the latest #Copilot Studio capabilities, Microsoft MVP and Barhead Tech Evangelist Rishona Elijah will be exploring the latest features in a webinar on Thursday this week. 🔗 Register for this week's webinar on 'Leveraging Microsoft Copilot Studio at Work' here: https://lnkd.in/gfwBZePZ #microsoft365 #aienablement #BarheadSolutions

Great insights on #AI, #cybersecurity, and #customerexperience from Cura Day Hospitals Group, Telstra, ENTAG and Microsoft at last week's 'Voice of Your Customer' workshop in Brisbane. Barhead Solutions' very own Lisa Crosbie was at the event to share insights on transforming customer and employee experience with Microsoft Copilot. Congratulations to Microsoft, Entag and Telstra on the successful event! #VoiceOfYourCustomer #BarheadSolutions Jarrod Jones

It takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to resume a task after switching applications, showing the impact of 'context switching' on productivity. Consensus, a complete contract and matter management solution built on Microsoft, reduces the need for legal teams to switch between applications, enabling them to request contracts with a Microsoft Copilot Request bot and collaborate to review them — all without leaving Microsoft applications. Here's a quick overview: ☑️ Contract request in Microsoft Teams - The Copilot request bot created allows users to initiate matter and contract creation requests in Teams without switching applications.  ☑️ Contract creation in Microsoft Outlook - Users can create contracts within Outlook and initiate reviews for them based on set rules.  ☑️ Contract edits in Microsoft Word - Created contract templates can then be opened directly in Word for real-time collaboration and saves automatically to SharePoint, maintaining a version history in the application. To learn more about Consensus, visit https://lnkd.in/gDcdAMDt #copilot #contractmanagement #mattermanagement #legaltech #BarheadSolutions

The Barhead Solutions team had an incredible time at the Local Government Association of Queensland Conference, where we connected with industry leaders from Microsoft, ENTAG and Telstra. It was a fantastic opportunity to share insights, explore innovative solutions and strengthen partnerships. #LGAQ #BarheadSolutions #Microsoft #ENTAG #Telstra

Richard Evans, Barhead's Sales Director, on the biggest challenge facing business leaders when it comes to AI: 'Where do I apply #AI to deliver value to my organisation?' Barhead Solutions, an award-winning Microsoft partner, offers AI readiness services, including data readiness and Microsoft 365 Copilot awareness and adoption services. To learn more, visit https://lnkd.in/g3eNp9w6 #microsoftcopilot #aireadiness #datareadiness #BarheadSolutions

A rethink of how organisations approach solution design is imperative to harnessing the full potential of #GenAI copilots. In next month's AI meet-up hosted by Doug Maloney, Kostadin Solakov, Microsoft ANZ's Business Applications Lead for SMBs, will be exploring how organisations can adopt an AI-first mindset and harness #AI tools, delving into: ✳️ How to rewire your mindset to keep Copilot reasoning engines at the forefront of system design ✳️ How envisioning the system with advanced AI tools as the centerpiece can transform your approach, ensuring that all other functionalities are designed to complement and enhance the capabilities of GenAI Copilots ✳️ How to architect solutions that fully leverage AI technologies, driving significant business value and delivering superior user experiences To save your spot at the meet-up on Thursday, 14th November, register at https://lnkd.in/gDmdf9Mi #copilot #aienablement #BarheadSolutions

Microsoft announced a new set of capabilities for Copilot Studio that will allow users to create autonomous agents that understand the nature of their work, can act on their behalf and provide support across teams and business roles. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g_Y5yjBh The new capabilities will be in public preview at Microsoft Ignite 2024, from 19th to 21st November. You can register for #MSIgnite here: https://lnkd.in/dyX5hiwc If you want to learn more about how Copilot Studio can be leveraged at work, Microsoft MVP and Barhead Solutions Tech Evangelist Rishona Elijah will be delving into this and Copilot Studio's latest features in a LinkedIn event on Thursday, 31st of October. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gfwBZePZ #microsoftcopilot #copilotstudio #ai #BarheadSolutions