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Managing Software Development Risk
A software development project can be a significant investment so it makes sense to manage your risk with strong project management. The traditional waterfall method is relatively inflexible and can increase that risk, though there are times when that strict approach is warranted. Another project management technique called agile is much more flexible and has become…
Improving your Business Intelligence with Power BI
The ability to unlock the data you need in an accurate and timely way is an important part of making good business decisions. This can be challenging when your data is stored in an ever increasing number of places. How can you get the information you need, when you need…
SharePoint Metadata vs Folders
In this post we compare Metadata with Folders for organising content in SharePoint Document Libraries. The use of Folders in SharePoint is a contentious topic but the right choice isn’t always clear cut. There are in some cases good reasons to use Folders, however this should be well thought out. Metadata…
Stratos Wins Inflammatory Bowel Disease Project
Christchurch based Stratos Technology Partners has won a contract from the Australian charity, Crohn’s Colitis Cure (CCC), to develop a software system for a research project studying Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) sufferers in Australia and New Zealand. The research project involves 12 major hospital sites and is the largest and…
Stratos on the Move
Stratos Technology Partners, an IT services company providing software development, business intelligence, SharePoint and IT consulting services is relocating its offices to 167 Madras Street, Christchurch, effective from Monday July 13. “Moving into the CBD will help attract and retain talent to support our growth. Over the last year we…
Introducing Greg Jackman
Greg Jackman has been a software developer with Stratos for over four years making him one of our longest serving team members. Over that time he has worked on numerous projects for clients such as Electionz, The Nanny Company, CropLogic, ECAN and CDHB to name a few. Greg’s proactive attitude…
Power BI Makes Dashboards Easy
Microsoft has recently introduced a new cloud based Business Intelligence service designed to compete with other self-service BI Products such as Tableau. Unlike other products on the market Power BI has some unique features that may make it particularly useful to the New Zealand market. In short Power BI is…
5 Steps for Successful Document Migration into SharePoint
Migrating Process Oriented Documents One of the challenges with SharePoint projects is content migration. It can be a daunting task with both technical and human challenges. This post discusses a five step methodology for migrating content from a file server into SharePoint. This strategy revolves around identifying the documents that…
SharePoint Training Courses: Winter Special
Our training partner, ShareThePoint, is offering 1-day SharePoint training courses at a special winter price. Regularly priced at $750+GST, register for either of their June courses and pay just $400+GST. Christchurch courses will be held on 16 June (Understanding SharePoint) and 26 June (Progressing SharePoint). These courses are great for beginners as well as people with a…
Christchurch Charity-It Hackathon Pulls It Off
The Christchurch Charity-IT Team, from Left to Right: Althea Carbon (National Team Representative), Amgad Hanna, Tasneed Gould (Orion Health), Piyush Misra and Rebecca May Stratos Technology Partners are proud to have sponsored the first Charity-IT Hackathon event in Christchurch in May. In one weekend, volunteer IT professionals knocked out technology…