{"id":546810,"date":"2021-12-14T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T08:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=546810"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T08:55:37","slug":"business-talk-colin-erasmus-shares-the-benefits-of-the-microsoft-surface-range-for-hybrid-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/546810\/business-talk-colin-erasmus-shares-the-benefits-of-the-microsoft-surface-range-for-hybrid-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk &#8211; Colin Erasmus shares the benefits of the Microsoft Surface range for hybrid work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Erasmus is the Modern Workplace and Security Business Group lead at Microsoft, and aims to provide businesses with digital tools that connect and support their employees.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus has served with Microsoft for over 20 years, and during this time he has held several prominent positions, including Microsoft Tech-Ed and Partner Summit Event Technical director, Business Group lead, and sales excellence lead.<\/p>\n<p>He began his professional career as an entrepreneur in a start-up consultancy, where he developed niche technologies for the events registration industry.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus is also one of a few privacy-certified individuals in South Africa who assisted in drafting South Africa\u2019s POPIA legislation.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Erasmus discusses Microsoft\u2019s range of offerings for modern workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus highlights how the Microsoft Surface range enables businesses to support a hybrid work strategy, and describes how these devices work better together with Microsoft\u2019s software products, such as Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus also highlights several other key Microsoft services and the benefits of its Surface devices for business decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Colin Erasmus is embedded below. Find all the Business Talk \u2013 Owning it with Sage interviews<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KO-4TcCpfYo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Erasmus discusses the benefits of the Microsoft Surface range for remote workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":546812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15578,169,16448],"class_list":["post-546810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-business-talk","tag-microsoft","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546830,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546810\/revisions\/546830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}