It takes innovation, forward thinking, and a willingness to be just a little bit disruptive in a space that can at times be very traditional. The tech industry calls it, “digital transformation.”

What is “digital transformation?”

Digital transformation takes place when companies adopt a technology that changes the course of their workflow – making their workflow better, easier, or more efficient. This use of information technology to “transform” how businesses work is now one of the main focuses of Microsoft and its partners.

Intivix leaders, Rob Schenk and Dan Gordon, were pleased to have had MyWorkDrive mentioned during a session at an industry conference hosted by Microsoft called Inspire. At Inspire, Microsoft gathers its partners and resellers from around the globe to update them on the latest Microsoft offerings and industry trends. It is a great opportunity for technology providers to network and to interact with those who are innovating within the industry. According to Microsoft, Inspire is where “the world meets to transform business.”

Like many industry-specific conferences, Inspire is made up of many sessions and workshops.

At a special workshop called, “US14p The Art of the Possible: Digital Transformation for US Partners”, the Intivix team received commendation from Microsoft speaker, Sri Ganapathy for their work in developing MyWorkDrive.

Sri Ganapathy is a Partner Technology Strategist with Microsoft. It is Sri’s job to advise and encourage those that sell Microsoft’s products and services to follow the example of industry leaders. At this significant workshop, Sri Ganapathy made the point that technology providers should be moving their concentration from services that they want to offer to their clients to developing solutions to their client’s challenges that they can then promote across that particular industry vertical.

Some solutions that have been developed – such as MyWorkDrive – address business challenges across multiple industry verticals.

MyWorkDrive is an application developed by Intivix that allows companies to leverage their existing storage infrastructure while providing cloud availability features to that storage – allowing companies to move to the cloud at their own pace.

MyWorkDrive gives employees cloud access to their work files without VPN, syncing, or storing data in a public cloud.

This is different than VPN or file sync solutions. VPN and file sync are challenging in that they require employee retraining, are expensive to maintain, present an element of data-loss risk, and do not always conform to compliance standards. MyWorkDrive is the answer to all of these problems.

One of the outstanding features of MyWorkDrive is the solution’s seamless integration with Microsoft Office 365 online. With MyWorkDrive, employees can directly edit their Office documents in Office 365 online and collaboratively edit in real time without moving the files to the cloud. Once they are ready, employees can share Office 365 documents externally using OneDrive without compromising security.

Some of the other significant benefits of MyWorkDrive are:

• The ability for a company to move to the cloud at its own pace
• The advantage of leveraging existing infrastructure, Active Directory, and File Permissions
• Two-factor authentication
• Single Sign On (SSO)
• Mapped Drive from anywhere
• Mobile App for working away from the office

Because of the business problems that MyWorkDrive solves for companies across multiple verticals, Microsoft chose to highlight the MyWorkDrive solution within their presentation on innovative approaches that are driving business transformation today.

Rob Schenk, one of the partners at Intivix, said, “We were grateful for Microsoft’s recognition of MyWorkDrive. We’ve worked hard on it. We’re especially proud of MyWorkDrive because it combines fresh elements in file sharing that aren’t available in this configuration anywhere else. MyWorkDrive solves the user problems that were inherent in older file sharing technologies, and as a result, provides significant efficiencies for the end user.”

To find out more about MyWorkDrive and what we can do to improve your file access workflow, contact us now at 877-705-4997 or sales@myworkdrive.com