17Feb 21
Eight Ways to Maximize Value and Save Money with Azure Infrastructure
Accelerating the adoption of cloud computing and taking advantage of modern cloud infrastructure with Azure will help you to enable remote work and optimize costs and efficiencies while investing in smart ways to prepare for recovery and future growth.
17Feb 21
Microsoft Release Custom Neural Voice into General Availability
The big February announcement was the release of Custom Neural Voice. You can record your own voice, upload it to Custom Neural Voice for training the model and create your very own neural voice.
17Feb 21
Azure Monitor Network Insights – Now Generally Available
Azure Monitor Insights is now generally available. This is a health monitoring experience that does not require writing queries, authoring workbooks or using an agent. This experience gives you a single console for network viewing; access to metrics, alerts, monitoring tools and health state.
06Feb 21
Clutch Recognizes Ballard Chalmers as Top Software Developer in the UK
We were recently evaluated by Clutch and recognized as one of the top software developer B2B companies in the UK.
26Jan 21
Easy Analytics and Data Visualisation Part 3 – Visualising Azure Synapse Analytics Data in Power BI
In this final part of the blog series, the data has been imported and transformed in Azure Synapse Analytics and now we can work with the data so it can be displayed in Power BI.
26Jan 21
Ballard Chalmers Renews Cyber Essentials Certificate
We are pleased to tell you we successfully renewed our Cyber Essentials certificate. This certificate confirms that we met the Cyber Essentials implementation profile and our ICT defences were assessed as satisfactory against commodity based cyber-attack.
13Jan 21
Ballard Chalmers Named Supplier for Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5
Ballard Chalmers has been named as a service supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 Framework (DOS 5).
13Jan 21
EASY ANALYTICS AND DATA VISUALISATION PART 2 — WORKING WITH SQL IN AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS
In this post, we focus on using SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics and conduct tasks such as creating tables and views, testing the tables, and formatting the data.
12Jan 21
SQL Tools 2020 Release Roundup
SQL Server Management Studio had four releases in 2020, and a lot of the known issues have now been resolved. Don’t forget that since version 18.7, Azure Data Studio is included with SQL Server Management Studio.
04Jan 21
Welcome New Client, Gatwick Construction
We are happy to bring in the new year by welcoming onboard a new client, Gatwick Construction. We will deliver a SharePoint for business system as their outsourced IT partner.
