Two-fifths of companies turn to AI to combat workforce mental health crisis
HR leaders across the UK are planning to implement AI in their organisation to help streamline people management, including over 40 per cent who will use it mainly to help with workforce mental health. Research, from the workplace and wellbeing platform Unmind, reveals the trends that will shape mental wellbeing at work between now and 2030. Feedback from 2,000 […]
Managers want to keep working from home more than employees do, survey finds
It looks like managers are more keen to continue remote and hybrid work in 2024 than employees. This is according to a Checkr survey of 3,000 employees and business leaders in the US. Major firms including Google, Meta, and Apple have issued return-to-office mandates in the past year. Employees are not the only ones complaining […]
Microsoft gets closer to overtaking Apple as most valuable U.S. company
Microsoft Corp. is getting closer to retaking the title of most valuable U.S. company as it narrows in on Apple Inc. Now valued at $2.73 trillion, Microsoft is worth about $100 billion less than Apple which is valued at $2.83 trillion. Apple hasn’t been worth less than Microsoft since a 14-session stretch that ended Nov. […]
Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Workday Lead Cloud ERP Market: Gartner
From Oracle Fusion Cloud and Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Workday and Sage, here’s the leading cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in the world, according to Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant. Many of the world’s largest software companies are investing heavily in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as the market value increased to $44 billion in 2023. Microsoft, Oracle, […]
Top 8 New Updates in the Dynamics 365 Release 2023 Wave 1
1. Dynamics 365 Customer Voice Dynamics 365 Customer Voice provides the best-in-class customer service through live customer engagements, agent collaboration, advanced telephony, and AI-based analytics. With the release update, there is a focus on enhanced case creation and channel-based swarming with Microsoft Teams. 2. Sales Engagement AI Features New sales engagement AI-powered suggestions now improve […]
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft expand partnership to simplify industrial transformation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced a five-year partnership expansion to develop integrated, market-ready solutions that help industrial customers improve digital agility through cloud technology. By combining each company’s expertise in the industrial and IT markets, respectively, teams can work together more seamlessly, enabling industrial organizations to save on […]
Technology and COVID-19: A new way to upskill people with disabilities
In India, virtual work environments open up new opportunities for inclusion S Gokulakrishnan studied hard and snagged his first job soon after he earned his degree. A year later, like many of us do, he took a break from work to rethink his career. This 26-year-old commerce graduate and chartered accountant (intermediate) from Chennai in […]
Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks
What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data analytics and modern supercomputers to make these predictions. Microsoft Premonition envisions doing the same for […]
Microsoft demonstrates how to increase green energy in Ireland one rooftop at a time
Solar panels being installed on the roofs of dozens of schools throughout Dublin, Ireland, reflect a novel front in the fight against global climate change, according to a senior software engineer and a sustainability lead at Microsoft. The technology company partnered with SSE Airtricity, Ireland’s largest provider of 100% green energy and a part of […]
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible, as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical. Microsoft’s Project Natick team […]