Press releases

Knowledge is power! The knowledge of the company is recorded in the information system. The knowledge must be protected from theft, tampering and deletion – for years, that has been the main requirement established to the security scope.

But have you ever wondered how long the emojis have been around, what are the most used, or questioned yourself whether you using enough?

Do you need an efficient and simple solution for the phone center of your company? Microsoft has a solution!

Microsoft announced Teams Essentials, the first-ever standalone Microsoft Teams offering, designed specifically for small businesses. Teams Essentials gives small businesses a professional and affordable meetings solution to support collaboration, connection and productivity in a hybrid work environment.

Who has been watching closely, Microsoft announced that from March 1, 2022, the prices of all types of contracts will increase by 10-25% on average.

With the help of Bondora and Primend, Tallinn Free Waldorf School and Vändra Gymnasium now have 25 working desktop computers.

To date, we have organized a cross-company steps competition twice, where all three Baltic countries compete and step (walk or run) together.

Cybercrime, whether nation state sponsored or permitted, is a threat to national security.  Cybercriminals are targeting and attacking all sectors of critical infrastructure, including healthcare and public health, information technology (IT), financial services, and energy sectors.

Protect time and prioritize wellbeing. Weekly meeting time for Teams users has more than doubled since the onset of the pandemic.

Microsoft believes that hybrid work is the future of work and that to empower their people to succeed in hybrid work, business leaders will need to reimagine their organizations with a new operating model for people, places, and processes. 

Microsoft released Windows 11 to the public on October 5, 2021. Who does need that operating system and what can it be used for? 

The ability to work whenever, however, and wherever it’s needed has become the new normal. All employees want technology that’s familiar, easy to use, and available across devices. And in the most complex cybersecurity environment we’ve ever seen, businesses need a solution that helps their employees collaborate, share, and create while also keeping their data safe and secure. 

Organizations everywhere have transformed themselves through virtual processes and remote collaboration. And as people embrace hybrid work—with people returning to the office, continuing to work from home, or some mix of the two—things will be different all over again. 

Microsoft announced a set of new capabilities in Microsoft 365, Teams, and Microsoft Viva to help our customers succeed in the new hybrid work era.  These product announcements include Fluid components coming later this year in Teams, Outlook, OneNote, and Whiteboard; enhancements to Microsoft Teams Rooms and meeting experiences; an updated Whiteboard experience; and new personal wellbeing features coming in Microsoft Viva Insights, including Headspace guided meditations, a focus mode, and quiet time settings. 

Microsoft announced changes to their commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since they launched Office 365 a decade ago. This updated pricing reflects the increased value they have delivered to their customers over the past 10 years.

Do you have control of your Office 365 data? Do you have access to all the items you need? Microsoft takes care of quite a bit, and provides a great service for their customers. However, Microsoft’s primary focus is on managing the Office 365 infrastructure and maintaining uptime to your users. The misconception that Microsoft fully backs up your data on your behalf is quite common, and without a shift in mindset, could have damaging repercussions when this responsibility is left unattended.

Every year in July Microsoft hosts a conference that is meant to inspire customers and partners to achieve more. When other Microsoft conferences focus on new technology and infrastructure architecture, then Inspire talks about how to deploy that technology in a way that it benefits us all. In short, Microsoft Inspire focuses less on technology itself and more about how we great value from it in our everyday life.

When Microsoft launched Windows Virtual Desktop nearly two years ago, no one predicted a global pandemic would force millions of workers to leave the office and work from home. Organizations around the world migrated important apps and data to the cloud to gain business resilience and agility. And to support the new remote workforce, many of you turned to Windows Virtual Desktop to give remote users a secure, easy to manage, productive personal computing experience with Windows 10 from the cloud.

Summer and the sweetest holiday period have arrived! Due to the coronavirus, we have already managed to do a lot of work at home office, therefore in summer everyone wants to get out of the office and go out of town instead. Whether on holiday or at work, whether in the country at granny’s or on a short family holiday in Saaremaa, we want to unite business and pleasure. Let’s take a look at the possible updates and useful tips in Microsoft Teams that might help us in summer.

Lenovo Smart Collaboration gives your business the tools to thrive in a modern working environment, whether it’s creating hybrid workspaces or enabling more employee flexibility. Combining innovative thinking with productivity-enhancing features, Smart Collaboration systems are designed to create a more collaborative workplace for everyone.

Data loss is a serious and costly problem, whether for a large or a small organisation. Simple human error is inevitable and even malicious intent is not unheard of. In order to minimise loss caused by gaps in data protection, regular data backup should be applied as a supporting measure, so that mistakes would not lead to irreversible consequences. 

At the end of March, Yubico announced that their product YubiKey password-free authentication is now available to the users of Microsoft Azure Directory. This is a remarkable step towards increased security without sacrificing user convenience. 

Microsoft 365 personal productivity insights help you work smarter, analysing working time related patterns, emphasizing the time spent on focusing, personal well-being, social network and more efficient collaboration.

Amberlo is a cloud-based, fast, and easy to use law firm management software. Primend is known for supporting the idea of cooperation with outside partners to provide extra value for our customers.

We are proud to announce that from now on we can keep our customers even more satisfied than ever. We can provide prioritized support with a unique set of capabilities to quickly resolve technical problems on behalf of our customers by partnering with Microsoft.

Estonian IT company Primend OÜ gives tablet computers for implementation of activities under the stroke treatment development project of Ida-Viru Central Hospital.

The capability of digital expenditure report is one of the most popular modules of TABLOO intranet thanks to convenient use and a possibility to design it in a flexible manner to correspond to the business processes of a company.

Eighteen months ago, Microsoft announced the July 31, 2021 retirement of Skype for Business Online.

Every year in January, companies have busy times planning vacations. That can cause a big headache even in a small company, not to mention large companies with many employees where work is based on schedules.  Where can I find information on how to fill the holiday application? Who should I send it to now? How many holidays can I use? These questions seem familiar, right? Beginning of year and all the fuss with planning of holidays - there must be a way to ease the headache? A Microsoft toolset is here to help.

Phishing is a form of fraud in which an attacker masquerades as a reputable person or company in email or other electronic communication channels. A common phishing tactic is to send an email with a forged return address, so that the message appears to have originated from a legitimate source, making it more likely that the recipient will open it.

Ransomware is malicious software that blocks access to a computer system or files unless a sum of money is paid. Ransomware twists the power of encryption against you. Encryption should protect your data and files, but ransomware uses it to take files hostage. This means being locked out of your documents, spreadsheets, photos and videos, and other important files. Plus, an infected PC can spread the ransomware to other computers on your network.

Estonia’s largest medical laboratory SYNLAB is to gift tablets to nursing homes, helping their inhabitants communicate with their relatives.

Primend has come to an agreement with an Estonian IT company Iteraction, to merge our businesses. The merger will support Primend’s expansion in Baltic cloud services market with an improved team and knowledge.

Beginning on February 8th, 2021, we are turning on Guest access in Microsoft Teams by default for any customers who have not configured this setting.

Microsoft 365 users will be getting expanded file-size support, allowing files to be shared that are 250GB maximum in size, per a Microsoft announcement earlier this week.

We are excited to share that Breakout rooms available now in Microsoft Teams! Creating meaningful connection can be difficult in larger group settings. Breakout rooms allow organizers to divide the meeting into sub-groups to facilitate discussions and brainstorming sessions.

Whether your commute is across the house or across town, the PC continues to play an integral role in keeping all of us connected to our work, school, and lives – and each person in the household needs one.

Okay, support for IE11 security fixes will continue for years to come, but support for earlier versions is now completely gone. Microsoft has moved all development to the new Edge web browser.

We are proud to announce that Primend has won the Microsoft Partner of the Year 2020 Estonia award.

During the past weeks, many companies have had to manage in a new situation where the former work habits had to be revised and due to the emergency situation, it was necessary to find possibilities for the employees to work at home as much as possible.

This morning started especially sunny for the Primend team, thanks to our customers! The Recommy recommendation index shone 73%! We are happy, as this is one of the highest scores ever for us and a tribute to our fantastic support team.

Microsoft announced a change in Office 365 subscriptions for small and medium-sized businesses and to Office 365 ProPlus from April 21st, 2020 all these products will use the Microsoft 365 brand. 

We have put together a quick start guide for Microsoft Teams. You will find out which possibilities Teams has and how to use them

Teams helps us to better organize cooperation within the company and with our partners. Teams provides a way to communicate thru chat and prioritize your messages, which can save you and your colleagues time.

Microsoft Teams makes planning and holding online meetings simple. Read how to set up meetings in Teams and which settings are reasonable to use.

Primend signed a cooperation agreement with cloud management company ADM Cloudtech with whom their goal is to offer organisations in the UK a wide array of IT solutions.

Primend is Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Estonia fourth time in row. Thank you, Microsoft, for this honor! But what is that secret ingredient in our service offerings that has enabled that spectacular achievement?

Primend is proud to announce we have won the 2017 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for Estonia.

Primend’s Business Conference: Become Successful with BI concentrated on the topic of business intelligence and the benefits it can offer for every company. The interest towards the topic is increasing rapidly as was shown by the conference being, once again, fully booked.

Primend is proud to announce that we have won the 2016 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year award for Estonia.