Author: Seán Deasy

Joining Micromail in 2008, Seán headed up the Education Licensing Team until 2022, primarily in the Microsoft and Adobe space. Sean has now brought his extensive vendor and framework knowledge to the Micromail Enterprise Agreement team, managing agreements for large Commercial and Public Sector customers. He holds a 2:1 Degree in Sociology and Philosophy from UCC, as well as all the relevant Microsoft MCP exams since 2011.

Adobe Sign is now available to purchase via Micromail through the Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP) program, enabling you to manage and align purchases across the Adobe product stack, on a single console.

Eliminate manual document processes and accelerate approvals with Adobe Sign, the trusted e-signature solution from the global leader in secure digital document solutions. Now you can reduce the time it takes to onboard employees, sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), close sales deals, and more – from days to hours, or sometimes even minutes. Adobe Sign makes it easy for anyone in your organization to send documents for legal e-signatures with just a few clicks, then track the status in real time. And signing is just as simple. Recipients can sign on the dotted line from anywhere using a web browser or mobile device – no account setup or software downloads required. As Microsoft’s preferred e-signature solution, Adobe Sign is deeply integrated across the Microsoft’s Office 365 family of applications. Adobe e-signatures are legally binding and enforceable in almost every industrialized country in the world. Furthermore Adobe Sign is now available through the Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP) so you can manage all your licenses – including Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Creative Cloud – through one central admin console.

Available in two flavours (Business and Enterprise), Adobe Sign Enterprise offers prebuilt integrations with your existing business systems, such as Salesforce, Workday, SAP, Ariba, Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint and more – without coding. Plus visual design tools let you create custom templates and signing workflows that streamline manual workflows, so your organisation can reduce errors and improve compliance. By purchasing Adobe Sign for enterprise through the Adobe (VIP), you get enterprise-level features such as Federated ID/single sign-on and enterprise support. Plus you can manage all your licenses in one central admin console.

Licensed either per user/per year, or ‘per transaction’, please reach out to Micromail today to discuss which option is best for your use case. As Ireland’s only Adobe Platinum Partner, and the largest Irish Microsoft Licensing Solutions Partner (LSP), we are well positioned to shape and optimise your eSignature solution today.

Email our dedicated Adobe Team at adobe@micromail.ie or your regular Micromail contact.

With Christmas fast approaching now is a good time to reflect on last month’s HEAnet Conference in Galway.

Expertly curated and managed by the HEAnet team as always, this year’s focus was “Shared Services & Digital Transformation”, bringing together a balanced mix of industry solutions and real-world stories from Higher and Further Education. After the opening remarks by Seán Canney TD and HEAnet CEO Kerrie Power, we explored the challenges of building collaborative research practices in Swiss institutes (including CERN).

Sebastian Sigloch, SWITCH

Throughout the day we heard real world stories about unlocking the potential of the Office 365 stack across heterogenous organisations, as well as using Microsoft technologies to protect from malicious attacks. Cork Institute of Technology gave a very timely talk entitled “The Cost of an Office 365 Breach in an Educational Organisation” which covered the steps they have taken to mitigate against future attacks which included taking an in-dept look at their complete Azure MFA rollout, putting in place conditional Access rules and awareness campaigns have been introduced.

The HEAnet Conference is always a great place to see new technologies and hear from Irish success stories. Micromail was were very happy to see our friends in FlowForma have a presence at the conference for the first time and there was a great deal of interest on their “no code” Process Automation solution.

Ursula Cullen, FlowForma

The whole event was a great success as usual and was a great chance to meet with people who we have worked with remotely all year. This year we took the opportunity to co-ordinate with our Ergo colleagues (Kevin Greene and James Callaghan), running an Azure Cost Management in advance of the Conference. We then followed up onsite with 1:1 meetings where we could explore individual challenges and offer advice on Governance and Cost Management. HEAnet make all the talks and slides available to view here https://conferences.heanet.ie/2019/talk.

Sean, Gareth , Kevin and James from Micromail and Ergo. 

If you would like to hear from the team here on how to optimise your Azure Cost Management, or any of the other topics touched on above, please feel free to reach out today – sean@micromail.ie.

Microsoft has quietly extended a free upgrade offer that will allow some buyers of Windows 10 S to move to Windows 10 Pro.
MPSA and Select Plus Customers who purchase devices licensed with Windows 10 Pro in S Mode (Windows 10 S) with an Intel Core or AMD A8 or higher processor by March 31, 2018 may acquire a license to switch those devices to Windows 10 Pro for no additional charge.