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ABB and Microsoft put electric cars on a cloud
Charging your electric car is about to get easier and smarter. The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly. Yet worldwide there are currently just 106,000 public EV charging stations for more than 1 million EVs. As the industry powers up to meet demand, global revenue from EV charging services is projected to grow from…
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Helping banks get more out of applications, the cloud and big data: Microsoft at Sibos 2015
We’ve just wrapped up a great week at Sibos 2015. It seems as if we shoehorned a month’s worth of customer and partner meetings into roughly 96 hours, but the results have been extraordinary. Over the course of these past four days we met with executives across the financial services industry, and top of mind…
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Transparency and assurance: How Microsoft is helping financial institutions move confidently to the cloud
It has been remarkable to witness the sea change of cloud adoption in the financial services industry. Three years ago, when I talked to financial institutions about cloud, they were clear they would never be moving to cloud; two years ago, that changed to “not now.” Over the last 12 to 18 months, that has…
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Eat or be eaten? Fighting off the financial services fintech feeding frenzy begins with a solution
Fintech. It’s been called the financial services version of the industrial revolution. This wave of financial technology startups secured $12.7 billion in venture capital funding in just the first six months of 2015, according to William Garrity Associates of London. The movement has the potential to displace as much as $4.7 trillion in revenue annually…
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The new Office helps retailers empower their people to power their business
Click here to load media The digital transformation is fundamentally changing the way we do business, across all industries and around the world. New technologies are changing how we work, where we work and what we create. This shift is keenly felt in the way people work together. Teams that can more easily collaborate and…
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How technology is removing borders and barriers in the global workplace
Modern technology didn’t invent globalization. Business has been global for centuries. But modern technology has definitely helped people be closer and made the world smaller. Global business is now faster and more personal than it’s ever been. The future of collaboration There are a host of ways that cloud computing has made international business infinitely…
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Windows 10 powers a new era of devices
Today in New York City, Microsoft unveiled a new era of Windows 10 devices. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group, said, “Our approach to hardware is to create and reinvent categories” as he introduced new Surface, Lumia and Microsoft Band devices and shared the latest developments from HoloLens and Xbox.…
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More airlines flying smarter, greener with Surface 3 and Windows 10
When airlines innovate, the sky’s the limit. The pressures of time and cost demand that airlines constantly hone their business and flight operations. As proof that technology can power efficiency in both those areas, pilots at two more airlines are now carrying powerful new tools into the cockpit. Some 7,500 pilots at SkyWest Airlines and…
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Big week for Azure: Strata, AzureCon announcements, new customer stories show path to easier, smarter, faster cloud
Leave it to our customers to show us the way. Whether it’s Rockwell Automation transforming its business with predictive maintenance services, Alaska Airlines adding a nimble new app for employee flights, or the United Nations Development Programme changing the world’s paradigm for disaster response, customers around the globe are demonstrating how today’s cloud technologies can…
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Business Roundup: Creating soaring sales, reducing IT sprawl and learning to scale
Business Roundup is a recurring collection of short takes on topics of interest to Business Matters readers. We compile the latest thinking from Microsoft and other industry experts to showcase how companies of all sizes are achieving efficiency, deploying innovative technology and becoming digital businesses. Seamless connections via the cloud. The term “sales cloud” may…