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Introducing the Copilot in M365 CoE Dashboard: A hub for driving Copilot adoption
At adenin, we are excited to unveil our latest offering, the Copilot in M365 Dashboard, a powerful, free tool designed to enhance your Microsoft 365 experience with Viva Connections Adaptive Cards. This tool is an invaluable resource for organizations aiming to establish a Copilot Center of Excellence (CoE) and maximize their ROI. Key Features Why Choose adenin’s Copilot in M365 Dashboard? Get Started Explore the Copilot in M365 Dashboard on GitHub to get started with this powerful tool. Enhance your Microsoft 365 experience today and lead your organization’s journey towards a robust Copilot Center of Excellence. Installing this dashboard in…
The best replacement for Office 365 connectors within Teams
Update: This seems to be now delayed until December, which gives you slightly more time to test the replacement. Without much fanfare, but to the dismay of power users, Microsoft announced they’re shuttering Connectors for Microsoft Teams. The feature was a close relative of SharePoint’s Connector web part, which, too, will be discontinued. This feature was a circa-2016 precursor to Power Automate and allowed users to create a web part or Teams channel message based on new events in a handful of connectors that were available from Microsoft. The selection of connectors was sizable in Teams, but much smaller in…
Workvivo after Workplace by Meta shutdown: What Microsoft products are an alternative?
As Workplace by Meta prepares to shut down, Meta has nominated Workvivo as the recommended migration destination for customers. However, there’s another powerful alternative that organizations should absolutely consider: a combination of Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, and Viva Connections. This Microsoft suite offers robust features and seamless integration that can significantly enhance your organization’s communication and collaboration. In this blog post, we’ll explore why Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, and Viva Connections might be the perfect fit for your needs. The power of MS Teams Microsoft Teams serves as a comprehensive hub for team communication and collaboration. It brings together chat,…
Showcasing our Viva Connections offering
This week we’ve been invited by the SharePoint team to talk to Vesa Jovonen to talk about our Viva Connections offering and what we bring to a modern Digital Workplace built on Microsoft365. It was great to be able to showcase our various apps available on Microsoft AppSource, such as Jira, Zendesk or Workday. We were able to show how our apps work within Viva Connections dashboard as well as SharePoint, and how they can be invoked in Microsoft Teams with our companion Teams app. Head over to the Viva Connections blog post to get the full story.
The 7 best GPTs for busy managers and business owners
OpenAI has just launched their new GPT store and we've tried out dozens of GPTs that will help you become more productive at work.
9 Simple tips to design an effective personal dashboard
In the dynamic workplace of today, juggling many applications throughout the day has become essential. Doing so with a personal dashboard is an idea many people could gain productivity from, but mastering the art of dashboard design first is paramount. A well-designed dashboard is the first interaction between your product and the user, where the ideas and purpose for dashboard play a crucial role in user retention and satisfaction. Bad dashboards are frequent sources of user frustration, stall engagement and – plainly – end up not getting used. This article delves into the essentials of crafting an effective dashboard, particularly…
Embed RSS news feed web part into SharePoint or Viva Connections (Updated 2025)
Despite first being released in 1999 (yeah, a quarter of a century ago) RSS feeds are still a go-to format to syndicate news from different sources. This makes it also an ideal tool to show local news, weather, traffic updates, and more to users of your intranet. SharePoint used to offer a built-in RSS reader web part, but it was broken for many years until it was removed in 2024 alongside other SharePoint Connectors. From the SharePoint store: RSS feeds web part Luckily there is an easy replacement available directly on Microsoft AppSource: RSS feed web part for SharePoint. It’s…
The best ‘new tab’ browser extensions for productivity
We're exploring 6 of the best Chrome 'New tab' extensions to see which ones are the best at helping you connect to your work apps
Ask ChatGPT to get updates from your work apps
We’re happy to announce that our ChatGPT waitlist is now finished and all users can now start to use our adenin GPT chatbot. Simply head over to our channel and follow the Open adenin GPT button to get started. Using adenin GPT is the first time you can conveniently connect dozens of work and intranet apps, such as SharePoint, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Zendesk, and many others, to your ChatGPT account. Using ChatGPT for work is ideal for organizing your tasks as it can reduce the number of tabs you have to keep open in order to monitor your work apps. In…
Top 4 SharePoint Dashboard Apps
Dashboards have traditionally been a staple for real-time data visualizations, of interest mostly to business intelligence users, data analysts or perhaps marketers.