Microsoft announces 2020 Partner of the Year Awards winners and finalists
Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the winners and finalists of the 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize Microsoft partners demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Award winners and finalists from around the world will be recognized at the first-ever digital Microsoft Inspire, July […]
How T-Mobile used Power Apps to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic — and define a new path forward
As the novel coronavirus swept the United States this past spring, a frantic new reality took hold — one where phrases like “shelter in place” and “6 feet away” became commonplace. Many companies – even those deemed “essential” — were suddenly scrambling for a game plan to respond to the pandemic. But T-Mobile — the […]
Walgreens Boots Alliance creates personalized, omnichannel healthcare and shopping experiences powered by new customer experience management technology and data platform
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft and Adobe to launch a world-class digital experience and customer insights platform to deliver personalized healthcare and shopping offerings. It will provide Walgreens and Boots customers with products and services from its global pharmacy and retail businesses wherever, whenever […]
Emergency plan has Microsoft Store employees helping people in new ways despite closed doors
Last month, Carl Richardson was commuting an hour by subway to his job at the flagship Microsoft Store in New York City with a scarf around his face as a makeshift mask. At work, he sanitized his hands constantly and helped customers from a safe distance to help limit risk from spreading the COVID-19 virus. […]
Microsoft’s undersea datacenter helps the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine
An experimental Microsoft datacenter submerged beneath the sea in Scotland’s Orkney Islands is processing workloads for a global, distributed computing project to understand the viral proteins that cause COVID-19 and design therapeutics to stop them. Distributed computing projects harness otherwise idle computer processing power to perform specific tasks for big science research. Ongoing projects include […]
Microsoft Is About To Shake Up Low-Code Platforms
Key Takeaways The Hot Low-Code Market Is Ripe For Consolidation Strong adoption of low-code development platforms by AD&D is fueling high growth. But the market is fragmented, big governance challenges remain, and mostly smaller vendors dominate. The conditions for a market consolidation are ripe. Microsoft Is Poised To Dominate Microsoft has weaknesses in low code. […]
Rapid application development with Microsoft Power Platform & Azure
This year, at Build, we have an incredible 31 sessions covering Power Platform and Azure. This volume of sessions at a professional developer conference is a turning point for the Power Platform, so I wanted to take a moment and reflect on this growing fusion of low-code and code-first development. Over the next three years, […]
Microsoft, Workday announce strategic partnership to accelerate planning for today’s world
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) today announced a strategic partnership prioritizing enterprise planning in the cloud and expanding the business solutions customers can use to better optimize their everyday work. Through this partnership, Workday customers will also be able to run Workday Adaptive Planning on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Further, Microsoft […]
Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ADPT) on Thursday launched ImmuneCODE with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to begin sharing one of the largest, most detailed views of the immune response to COVID-19 in real time based on de-identified data generated from thousands of COVID-19 blood samples from patients around the globe. The open database contains detailed information […]
Oracle Cloud Powers New Video, Gaming, and Sports Streaming Services
Leading content streaming companies turn to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable fast digital storage, retrieval, and delivery to meet growing global demand As live streaming continues to represent a huge portion of all internet traffic, leading content providers—Phenix, Net Insight, and Mynet Inc.,—have selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support growing global demand for streaming content. […]