The Hard Exam of Technology Industry with Corona (Covid-19)

The Corona virus -which started to spread rapidly from Wuhan, China- affected the economic situation of many countries. While international events, seminars, conferences and concerts were canceled, entry and exit to countries came to a standstill. The virus, which negatively affects every area, also created negative consequences for the technology sector. Facebook has canceled the Global Marketing Summit, which was going to be held in San Francisco between 9-12 March, due to the Corona virus. In addition, many leading companies in the industry such as Amazon and Microsoft postpone or cancel their activities one by one. One of the most important of the canceled congresses was the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held every year in Barcelona on February 24-27. These cancellations remind us every time that we are on the brink of Pandemic.“In the statement made by the WHO stated that the world is not ready for the new type of corona virus and that China has gained experience by fighting with SARS and that this situation will be difficult in countries where there were no virus cases before.”

The Impact of Corona (Covid-19) Virus on the Technology Industry

In China, which is the heart of technology equipment production, new hardware investments have been difficult, and the procurement process of spare parts orders for broken parts of the hardware in the hands of companies has been very long. Prolonged hardware supply and uncertainties regarding the future negatively affect the shares of major hardware manufacturers in Nasdaq.

While production came to a stop, many equipment were also banned from entering countries. In the canceled meetings, summits and events, the business processes of the companies have come to the point of stopping. As much as possible, employees of technology companies canceled travel plans within the country as well as travel between countries. Even in European countries where Corona is not common, employees prefer to work from home. Companies trying to continue their business have started to organize their communications through online platforms.

While working from home was possible for white-collar workers, many factories had to be closed because the option of working from home was not possible. While working from home used to be seen as a way of working and a privilege that many employees embrace, this has become a necessity for many countries where Corona has spread.“Samsung closed its factory –where it produces mobile devices in the city of Gumi, South Korea- after an employee was infected with a virus in the factory .”

Companies want their employees to work from home

Companies that do not endanger the health of people against the risk of infection, but have to continue their business processes on the other hand, have started to continue their business from platforms where they can communicate with applications such as Teams.

It is possible to say that Corona (Covid-19) was the first serious test of collaborative platforms such as Microsoft Teams worldwide. We can say that business continues in institutions that can continue to communicate and collaborate through these platforms. In fact, Microsoft decided to offer its Office 365 E1 license free for 6 months due to Corona, which is an admirable behavior.

In this process where travel is not possible and meetings are canceled, it became important to provide video communication. Employees can continue to work from home as long as they can communicate by video and hold their meetings online. In this way, they can organize their work processes independently of time and place through platforms where they can work on the work file at the same time, exchange documents between teams, and chat and make video conferences.

Twitter announced that it “strongly encouraged” all of its nearly 5,000 employees globally to work from home. As employees are not able to go to their offices, the importance of communication via online platforms is increasing in order for the communication not to be interrupted and for the economy not to get affected further.

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You can click on the report to follow the current distribution of the Corona virus within countries.

In and Out Animations with Buttons

You can try different method to make a more effective presentation. This way, you can present in a more catchy way visually and more effectively.

The enveloped move outward when you click the mail box in the animation above.

We can start by adding images.

We choose all of the envelope items that need to move when we click the mail box. Click the Add Animation button from the Animations tab and choose More Motion Paths. We add the animation by choosing Right.

When you add the animation it will look like the image below. The road map of the animation is shown with the dotted lines. Green dots are the start of the motion and the red dots are the end of the motion.

We change the start and end motion of the animation by dragging the green and red dots.

We drag and leave the green dots (starting points) to one point in the box since we want the envelopes to move outwards from the mail box. You can leave the end points the way you want.

Now, for the envelopes to move when we click the mail box let’s choose all the envelopes and click Trigger button next to the Add Animation button and then choose the mail box image within On click of. (If you don’t know the name of this image, or if there are multiple images and you don’t know which one, you can track the items with the Home Tab- Editing-Select.)

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40% of the Hardware is Coming to an End / Hürriyet

40 percent of the hardware in the hands of institutions is coming to an end

With the digital transformation, the competitive environment in the field of technology is reshaping. This competitive environment further strengthens the position of CIOs. CIOs, who need to prepare their organizations for the world of innovation, have a very difficult job in institutions that are hesitant to the cloud transition process. Because these institutions cannot go beyond traditional network connections.

According to IDC’s Turkey survey results; In Turkey, 78 percent of CIOs think that cloud computing companies are critical in terms of digital transformation strategy. The first factor that lead companies to consider cloud services is that 40 percent of their hardware is approaching the end of their lives. The second is that 29 percent of data centers require update or replacement, and the third is that 26 percent of organizations demand more agility / speed from IT.

Evaluating the survey results, PEAKUP CEO Ahmet Toprakçı explained what CIOs should pay attention to when determining digital strategies. Stating that almost half of the hardware in the hands of corporations has expired, Toprakçı says that cloud investments will show a rapid transition towards SaaS services in the coming years, and the SaaS market is growing by 20 percent every year.

What should CIOs do for the right digital transformation strategy?

Stating that cloud services are of great importance in digital transformation, Toprakçı said, “It is vital to set up the right cloud strategy in terms of digital transformation strategy. To acknowledge the cloud reality and create a strategy accordingly, CIOs should pay attention to the following:

They should carefully examine the sector in which their company is located and the practices and strategies of similar institutions abroad.

They must identify and be prepared for the challenges they will face in the transition to cloud.

There should be solutions on how to avoid being dependent on providers in large clouds.

They should plan how compliance and data management issues should be.

They should investigate if they can combine the multiple cloud backends they have.

As the scale grows, they should find an answer to the question of whether or not they should or need to adopt payment-based consumption models.

Stating that there is a $100 billion SaaS market in the world according to Gartner, Toprakçı said, “SaaS market is growing by over 20 percent every year. So, while many workloads are shifting to SaaS infrastructures in the cloud, basic systems such as e-mail make up some of them. According to the research of SaaS-Powered Workplace, by 2022, organizations will host more than 80 percent of their applications in SaaS infrastructures. At the same time, according to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, SaaS applications will create 74 percent of all cloud workloads as of this year. As a result, 40 percent of the hardware in the hands of institutions is coming to an end. Considering all these trends, hardware shifts to the cloud and cloud investments to SaaS are among the most important trends of 2020. “In the future, there are machine learning and artificial intelligence that are waiting for us on our way.”

 

Manage Items Centrally by Using Properties

You might feel the need to manage the items on the screen from a center while developing a Power Apps application. When the properties of a certain item change, the features like the color, size, place can be managed for the related items on all screens.

There are two existing methods for central management.

  1. Method 1: Managing by using the item properties on the formula bar.
    Since the actions are executed through formulas, it is the most stable method. You can use all the features in the Properties window like color, position and size. This method is one of the first actions you need to execute while you’re developing an app. It can be hard to execute this action on an existing app, but it will help to do it.
  2. Method 2: Components (Experimental)
    Since this method is experimental, it doesn’t work in a stable way. Compared to the formula method, it is way easier to use.

Manage Items Centrally with Formulas

You might have heard in a lot of places that Power Apps works with the Excel logic and the formula structure is similar.

We write =A1+A2  into the formula bar in Excel to sum up two cells. In this action, we use the cell names directly in the formula and thus call and sum up the value in the cell directly. This way, whenever the value in the cell changes; the sum value gets recalculated.

When we want to execute the same action on Power Apps, we can use items like Text Box and Label. For example, we can calculate and display the sum of values entered in 2 Textboxes in a Label.

The Label item on the screen is named as Toplam (Sum), and the TextBoxes are named as Sayı1 (Number1) and Sayı2 (Number2).
We can display the sum value by writing the =number1. Text + Number2.Text into the Text property of Sum.

It means: Get the Text data of the Number1 item   +   Get the Text data of the Number2 item.

Right with the same logic of this examples, the item properties can be used in order for the items to imitate each other.
Actually, we are going to execute the action by assigning the properties of an item to another item.

Action Steps

Add two Label items to the screen.

Label1–> will stay as Label1
Label1–> will be renamed as Item_dependentto_Label1

Label1
Its features like fill color, text and border color are changed and thus, it is customized.

Item_dependentto_Label1

The properties are changed with the formulas below for this Label.

Fill –>  Label1.Fill  (Gets the fill color of Label1)
BorderColor–>  Label1.BorderColor  (Gets the border color of Label1)
Text–>  Label1.Text  (Gets the text of Label1)
Width–>  Label1.Width  (Gets the width of Label1)
Height–>  Label1.Height  (Gets the height of Label1)

Like it was written in the formula, this item is now dependent to Label 1. When the features of Label1 change, the dependent item will change.
You can distribute the dependent item to screens with copy-paste.

Manage Items Centrally by Using Components

You might feel the need to manage the items on the screen from a center while developing a Power Apps application. When the properties of a certain item change, the features like the color, size, place can be managed for the related items on all screens.

There are two existing methods for central management.

  1. Method 1: Managing by using the item properties on the formula bar.
    Since the actions are executed through formulas, it is the most stable method.
  2. Method 2: Components (Experimental)
    Since this method is experimental, it doesn’t work in a stable way. Compared to the formula method, it is way easier to use.
    The items on the screen can be standardized with components. 
    In this article, we will be analyzing how to manage items centrally with Components.

Using Components

To use the component feature: go File–> Settings –> Advanced Settings–> Write Components into the search bar on right to find the feature and then activate it.

Managing Items Centrally with Components

Once the components are activated, go back to the application screen. Two menus as Screens/Components are displayed.

We go to the components screen to design the template we want to use. The components are designed as a normal screen. When you use multiple components, naming the components will be important.

After the component is complete go to Screens and when you are in the page where the component will be added; locate the page by choosing Insert–>Custom–>Component1.


The component that has been created is added to the screen as one single item. For this reason, a component can be thought as a background image.
In this sense, while designing the symbol or items a component contains or after it is added to the screen, it doesn’t accept general formulas (like the functions of main page, next, save buttons).

Using Formulas in Components

We need to execute an extra action to give commands to the items on a component. For example, when we want to write the Navigate function into the Previous button on the image; we have to add a Label to the screen. You can complete process by writing the Navigate function into the OnSelect property of this Label.

Office App Has Been Renewed for Android and iOS

New Office App

Hello everybody,

Working from home has been inevitable during these times where online working systems have become prominent and even an obligation. Being able to work on one application while a lot of digital applications come into our life makes us faster and most productive in business processes.

At this point, we can say that all applications have become more visually appealing since Microsoft started to use Material design. Of course they also added very successful features to all applications. Now; Excel, Word and PowerPoint seem to have come together in one Office App in both Android and iOS devices. Which means that you will be able to access you Excel, Word and PowerPoint apps in one application.

 

 

Excel, Word and PowerPoint in One Single App

View, edit and share documents without having to change between multiple apps. We recommend you to try this new experience with its design and new features. 👍🏻

 

 

You can download the new application here:

 

New Features

  • Create PDFs from images or Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents instantly.
  • Sign PDFs with your fingers.
  • Take quick notes with sticky notes.
  • Scan QR codes to open links.
  • Take a picture of a documents and turn it into an editable Word document with one button.
  • Turn a table’s picture to an Excel e-table to be able to work with your data.
  • Let PowerPoint help you to create a presentation by choosing the pictures you want to use from your phone.
  • Create advanced digital images of white boards and documents with the Office Lens features that are integrated to the app.

 

 

You will love the promotional videos.🤗