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Future Now Preview: Advice for SMBs in challenging times
Business owners, particularly small and medium-size business owners, are some of the most resourceful and resilient people I know.![Woman working from her home office on a Surface Pro device, standing at her desk with a mug in her hands.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/PreviewImage1-300x169.webp)
Eight remote working essentials to stay productive
The second in our Keep your business moving securely series, this post offers eight remote working essentials to help you stay focused, productive, and secure from home. You can try out these tips at your business and/or share this post with anyone who may be procrastinating!![Photograph of a person at a desk using a Surface laptop to make a Microsoft Teams video call with a man who is smiling and wearing a headset.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/4-300x169.webp)
Secure remote working solutions for government agencies
The fifth in our Keep your business moving securely series, this blog post features secure remote working solutions from Microsoft, designed to empower Canadian government agencies facing unprecedented challenges.![Woman using Skype video conferencing to conduct a work meeting.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/Sky19_skypeWork_001-300x169.webp)
Secure remote working for human resources teams
Human resources (HR) teams have a major challenge on their hands this year.![Photograph of a female physician speaking to a patient using the video conferencing features in Microsoft Teams](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/Teams_Consultation-300x169.webp)
Empowering Canadian healthcare teams with new remote working tools
Like so many Canadians, we’re overwhelmed by the courage and commitment of firstline workers, especially healthcare teams, across the country who put themselves at risk to support us all. We salute and thank you for your service!![Woman working on a laptop seated at her desk in her home office. She has a clipboard, mail, and other supplies on her desk and a bookshelf in the background.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/Win18a_HPSpectreX2_PowerPoint_0077-300x169.webp)
Your security checklist to help protect your employees working from home
Get a security checklist to protect your employees working from home. Intelligent security can help you identify, pre-empt, mitigate, and stop internal and external attacks.![A headshot of Mike Kirkup CTO of Encircle](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/mikecto-300x200.jpg)
Startup Story: Encircle speeds up insurance
Encircle works with customers primarily in the insurance industry to reinvent processes and improve productivity. This Kitchener, Ontario-based software company provides an alternative to traditional, cumbersome, paper-based systems. Their simple, but powerful cloud-based, mobile tools allow organizations to deliver a more fair, transparent, and rapid claim experience.![Image of a robotic human head](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/08/MIMs-AI-startup-300x225.jpg)
MIMs: The artificial intelligence startup taking on cancer and heart disease
Born in the Microsoft Cloud in 2016, My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a Canadian software startup on the most impressive mission imaginable: speeding up the fight against breast cancer, heart disease, and leukemia. How? By radically accelerating post-genomic research using artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.![A man welding an object as the background with name of company mentioned and "Microsoft for Startups"](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/08/MS_Startups_Quartic-5a1c53bd984ef-300x159.jpg)
Quartic.ai, manufacturing agility with IoT & AI
Born in the Microsoft Cloud in 2016, Quartic.ai is a Canadian AI and Industrial IoT startup on a mission to make manufacturing more productive and flexible through digital transformation. How? Through an innovative application of IoT (Internet of Things), artificial intelligence (AI), industrial domain knowledge, and technical expertise.![Photography depicts Microsoft's FarmBeats technology uses AI and IoT to help increase farm productivity.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/AI-300x200.jpg)
Take the lead with artificial intelligence
Ready to take the lead with artificial intelligence? Good for you! In this post, we focus on what real-world small and medium-sized business owners and managers need to do to make their operations “smarter, stronger, and faster” using AI. Included are links to AI business resources from Microsoft and some inspirational reads. Artificial intelligence.![Distance](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/Distance-300x200.jpg)