Category: News
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Microsoft at the NRF Big Show: There’s nothing artificial about the real intelligence transforming retail
Here’s a small truth we can all recognize: The better experience a retailer gives us, the more we want such experiences everywhere we shop. If we don’t get that great treatment again, we’re a bit disappointed, maybe even peevish. We’ve been spoiled — and we want more spoiling. The single most important factor in delighting…
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Transform wins PR Daily content marketing awards
Transform, a Microsoft site devoted to stories about the surprising and innovative ways our customers use our technology, has won first place in the “Blog” category of PR Daily’s 2017 Content Marketing Awards, which honor organizations with big marketing goals and successful content. The winners were selected from more than 130 submissions from campaigns and…
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Microsoft’s Judson Althoff shares inspiring examples of digital transformation
In an end-of-the-year post on his LinkedIn page Wednesday, Microsoft executive vice president of worldwide commercial business Judson Althoff shared some of his favorite digital transformation stories from 2017. “This year, perhaps more than any other, I have earned my road warrior stripes,” he wrote. “My travels have taken me to the Middle East, Africa,…
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Retailers around the world turn to technology to evolve, thrive and grow
Last year in Europe, e-commerce turnover increased by 15 percent, to €530 billion ($625 billion). Despite this promising figure, retail businesses today still face numerous challenges, and fierce competition. In a world full of digital natives, online shopping has become the norm, and retailers must adapt and evolve if they wish to remain competitive, especially…
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Microsoft customers and partners envision smarter, safer, more connected societies
Organizations around the world are transforming for the digital era, changing how businesses, cities and citizens work. This new digital era will address many of the problems created in the earlier agricultural and industrial eras, making society safer, more sustainable, more efficient and more inclusive. But an infrastructure gap is keeping this broad vision from…
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Inside the unique redesign of Microsoft’s Silicon Valley headquarters
Microsoft just broke ground on a full redesign of its Silicon Valley headquarters. The new campus sets a new standard for sustainability as the first tech campus in the area with net-zero water certification. One hundred percent of the office’s non-drinking water will come from rainfall or on-site recycled water. “It’s important that Microsoft’s Silicon…
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Microsoft announces the public preview of Azure Location Based Services
Microsoft believes that advances in technology will solve many of the problems created in the industrial era to help make society safer, more sustainable, more efficient and more inclusive. For example, as enterprises harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect their physical assets to the cloud, they are dramatically reducing energy usage…
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Chevron fuels digital transformation with new Microsoft partnership
As a global leader in the energy industry, Chevron has long been a big data company with advanced technologies to manage complex operations. But a new partnership with Microsoft will infuse Chevron with even more computing power to accelerate its work in data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). Announced Monday, the multi-year partnership…
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TD builds on its reputation for excellent customer service with digital banking services powered by the Microsoft Cloud
TD Bank Group (TD) is sharply focused on building the bank of the future. A future where digital is one of the core driving forces of its transformation journey; where data provides insights into the bank’s customer beliefs, needs and behaviors; and where technology will be the centerpiece of the bank’s delivery model. In a…
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Learn how Partners in Health is transforming community health care
Every second counts when news of a medical emergency breaks. For Partners in Health, time is the difference between a life saved and a life lost. An international medical charity that provides health care to the poor and vulnerable, Partners in Health (PIH) recognizes the vital role immediate and reliable communication plays in their mission.…