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The annual Microsoft Build conference has been announced for 6-8 May 2019. Billed as “Microsoft’s premier event for developers,” the conference will take place in Seattle, USA and is a chance for developers to experience the latest tools and technologies. As with last year, sessions…

Ballard Chalmers recently attained the Microsoft Partner Gold Competency for Application Integration. This is in addition to our longstanding Gold Data Platform competency, several Silver competencies, as well as being a recognised Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider. The Microsoft Gold Partner Application Integration competency recognises those…

Clutch.co, the leading B2B ratings and reviews platform, has identified Ballard Chalmers as one of the Top B2B Service Providers in the UK for 2019. Assessing over 260 organisations based on the quality of their client feedback, industry leadership, services offered, clientele, and market presence,…

Ballard Chalmers is happy to announce that we are silver sponsors of INTEGRATE 2019, the premier Microsoft technologies integration conference. Taking place in London from June 3 – 5 2019, the event will feature speakers from the Microsoft product group and the global integration community. Confirmed speakers for…

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour is coming to London on February 26-27 2019. Taking place at ExCeL, there will be over 100 deep dive sessions and workshops happening, with the opportunity for one-on-ones with the Microsoft engineers who build the tools you use every day. It is…

Extended support for SQL Server 2008 ends in less than 6 months, on 9 July 2019. End of extended support means Microsoft will no longer release security updates for any version of SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Any organisation still running SQL Server 2008…

Microsoft has announced its acquisition of Citus Data, a leader in the PostgreSQL community. The annoucement was made by Rohan Kumar (Corporate Vice President, Azure Data) in the Microsoft Blog, where he says, “Together, Microsoft and Citus Data will further unlock the power of data, enabling customers…

The SharePoint modern page experience is set to become default on 1 April 2019, meaning organisations will no longer be able to restrict an entire tenant to classic mode for lists and libraries. In an article announcing the change on the Microsoft website, Chris McNulty (Senior…