CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Copilot: welcome to your virtual team Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 helps banks get the most from generative AI. Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 and automatically inherits the company’s security, compliance, and privacy policies and processes. This is a significant step and vital to success.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Microsoft will invest €3.2 Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, said the aim is to enable the German economy to benefit from AI in order to continue to expand its leading global position in terms of competitiveness. The company also wants to train more than 1.2 million people in digital skills.

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TechSoup

MAY 18, 2021

We are proud to announce that TechSoup is now a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner in Cloud Productivity and Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions. TechSoup has been providing free and low-cost access to nonprofits around the world to Microsoft Cloud Solutions for some time now.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Research from Avanade , a technology expert that specialises in the Microsoft ecosystem and partner solutions, suggests that 92% of manufacturers aim to be AI-first within a year. Microsoft Copilot enables a range of game-changing use cases for manufacturers, such as its “ask-an-expert” capability. This can be a major challenge.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Research from Avanade, a global professional services company focused on Microsoft, found that 90% of healthcare professionals believe that the impact of AI on people-focused processes and roles will make them more efficient. Learn more about Microsoft Copilot for healthcare here Generative AI Click here to register.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As the manufacturing sector evolves in these and other ways, generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot will come into their own. Microsoft Copilot can help manufacturers by proposing designs and recommending the best materials to use to meet cost, sustainability, and durability considerations. Supply chain optimisation.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 1, 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI announce that Stargate, a new AI super-computer data center project to be headquartered in the U.S. could cost over $115 billion and is planned for launch in 2028. Sky rocketing demands for generative artificial intelligence have accelerated demands for AI-centric data centers that can handle more advanced […]

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2024

Now, thanks to the cooperative’s tight partnership with Microsoft systems integrator Stoneridge Software, as well as Melby’s extensive technology experience, Dairyland — which was formed during the New Deal in the 1930s — has been able to experiment with and put into production some of the earliest Microsoft Azure-based LLMs, Melby says. “We

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

Working with partner Amazon Web Services (AWS), the NFL has developed Digital Athlete, a platform that uses computer vision and ML to predict which players are at the highest risk of injury based on plays and their body positions. “The The ITF partnered with Microsoft in 2021 to power its match insights platform for the BJK Cup.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With Microsoft, for example, organisations can leverage their existing licenses, allowing them to use tools like Microsoft Defender (an antivirus solution) and Microsoft Sentinel (for threat detection and security automation). Avanade’s Microsoft Security Copilot initiative is a case in point.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

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Coding Dojo

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The post Coding Dojo Chosen by Microsoft as a Microsoft Azure Training Partner for Global Digital Skills Initiative appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog. At Coding Dojo, we stay laser-focused on our students’ and alumni’s success. Whether it’s the continual updates to our curriculum, … Read more >>.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. The program was unveiled at the company’s Inspire virtual event for partners and resellers. Microsoft has already tested the new program with some enterprise customers.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

PwC and Microsoft are committed to developing local AI talent in Saudi Arabia with the launch of an artificial intelligence Centre of Excellence in Riyadh. In partnership with Microsoft, we are proud to launch a platform that nurtures and develops next-generation AI talent, carefully selected from the Kingdom’s premier universities.

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Gorilla Logic

AUGUST 9, 2018

Gorilla Logic has honed its expertise in leading cloud technologies from both AWS and Microsoft Azure. Recently we became a Microsoft Partner – achieving Silver status in their Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Partner Network. Net and C# developers have been certified in Microsoft technologies.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I look forward to working with our team, as well as our ecosystem of customers and partners, to drive the development and delivery of relevant, reliable, responsible business AI that fundamentally changes the way business runs.” Like Sun, Alam had moved from Microsoft to SAP, albeit at the end of January 2022.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

New research from Avanade, a technology company that specialises in the Microsoft platform, has revealed that 56% of healthcare and life-science professionals already use AI daily in their current roles. The research also demonstrates a willingness across the sector to use Microsoft Copilot to help reduce the workload placed on staff.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

Seeding the Kingdom AWS will join competitors Huawei, Microsoft, and Oracle in launching significantly funded plans to build cloud infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, bolstering the country’s plans to become a technology hub for the Middle East. Microsoft already has said it would invest $2.1 billion to launch new cloud areas. “Now

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 The Financial Times reports that the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just a little over a year after Microsoft invested more […]

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

That led to led to a $100 million Series C funding round last year led by Insight Partners, taking the company’s total funding to $195 million. It’s now landed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, which includes an undisclosed equity investment in the startup. We see Builder.ai We see Builder.ai

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2024

I was fortunate to speak with Brunt and Walsh about a recently completed project to improve field operations working with Infosys and Microsoft. Infosys earned its place as the integration partner for this initiative based on a long history of working with Telstra and its depth of knowledge for this type of project.

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CIO

MAY 13, 2023

Back in 2001, as I was just entering the venture industry, I remember the typical VC reaction to a start-up pitch was, “Can’t Microsoft replicate your product with 20 people and a few months of effort, given the resources they have?” Twenty-two years later, Microsoft is at the table once again.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2021

Microsoft and Elastic have recently announced Elastic on Azure, a preview service that offers managed Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time on Azure. Read about the […].

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TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2021

TIBCO is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s virtual Microsoft Ignite event, taking place March 2–4. Stop by” TIBCO’s virtual booth to see the innovative products we have to offer for businesses looking to make the leap into a total digital transformation, and read on to learn more about the Microsoft and TIBCO partnership.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. LMS365: Course and content management Image Credits : LMS365 Managers can also track learner progress and present relevant data via Microsoft Power BI visuals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

They want to be able to do everything on a mobile phone or a smart portal,” says Nilendu Pattanaik, Global Head of Business Applications Practice, Microsoft Business Unit, at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). “Most people do not want to go into a bank to do banking.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Previous investors Addition, Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $132 million, including a $28 million Series B round it announced earlier this year. TVM is currently in use by the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Meanwhile, Nerdio’s pool of channel partners grew to more than 1,000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Now let’s move over to Microsoft, which unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot , a suite of productivity and enterprise apps that are full of artificial intelligence–powered goodies. Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May and was backed by Microsoft and other partners. When OpenAI first detailed the OpenAI Startup Fund, it said recipients of cash from the fund would receive access to Azure resources from Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Two years ago, Microsoft debuted SharePoint Syntex, which leverages AI to automate the capture and classification of data from documents — building on SharePoint’s existing services. Today marks the expansion of the platform into Microsoft Syntex, a set of new products and capabilities including file annotation and data extraction.

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Confluent

JUNE 28, 2023

Our OSS on Azure Partner of the Year Award highlights Confluent's data streaming solution, cloud Apache Kafka, and fully integrated Azure security, management, billing, and data analytics.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 18, 2024

The big news in AI this week was undoubtedly Microsoft ’s huge $1.5 Of course, Microsoft betting big on AI firms is nothing new. That is to say nothing of Microsoft’s well-publicized relationship with OpenAI. However, Microsoft’s deal for a minority stake in G42 could help increase those investment numbers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year , a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch, which closed in January. The money from VCs reported here, part of a tender offer, is separate to that.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2022

Google, Microsoft and Amazon collectively made up almost two in three dollars spent on cloud infrastructure around the world last quarter, Canalys noted. Azure’s growth rate means that Microsoft has continued to close in on Amazon for primacy in this market, according to Canalys. Cloud providers build out infrastructure.

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