Tag: Industries

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arpan Shah. Across industries, companies are investing in hybrid and multicloud technologies to ensure they have the flexibility to innovate anywhere and meet evolving business needs. Customers tell us a key challenge with hybrid and multicloud adoption is managing and securing their IT environments while building and running cloud-native applications. To enable the flexibility and agility customers are seeking to innovate anywhere while providing governance and security, we created Azure Arc—a set of technologies that extends Azure management and services to any infrastructure. Today, we are announcing new Azure Arc innovation that unlocks more scenarios ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Scott Van Vliet. Last year, we launched Azure Communication Services to help businesses reach customers—enabled by voice, video, text chat, and connections into short message service (SMS) and public switched telephone network (PSTN)—across applications, websites, and mobile platforms. Since launch, we have onboarded hundreds of customers and partners into preview across multiple industries and look forward to supporting more with general availability later this month. From retailers looking to enhance remote customer engagement, to banks and financial institutions needing to use mobile authentication and notification technologies, Azure Communication Services is making the development of intelligent, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. For any organization to succeed in a world of unprecedented uncertainty, a new level of agility is required. Core to that agility is the ability to quickly gain insights from data at any scale, power ultra-low latency applications that deliver personalized experiences, and empower all users in an organization, regardless of size. This requires a computing platform that provides limitless scale, performance, and possibilities for what can be achieved with data. To help organizations achieve these limitless capabilities, we shared several announcements today at Microsoft Ignite: Unmatched analytics Our commitment to customers is ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Cristina McComic; AI adoption is critical for business success in the changing, competitive market. A HIMMS and IBM study found that 64% of respondents said their organizations placed a “critical” or “high” strategic priority on AI. However, many organizations are still reluctant to fully adopt AI into their processes and decision-making for fear of the unknown. “To many who aren’t data scientists, AI is still a black box and that scares us,” says Kelly Combs, Director of Emerging Technologies Risk Services at KPMG. So how do organizations go about establishing trust in their AI? The ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Boyd. Tens of thousands of customers, such as Pepsi, Amway, Airbus, BBC, and Progressive Insurance are using Azure AI to deliver immersive customer experiences, identify new business opportunities, and drive impact. As more organizations use AI in their production workloads, they have an increased need for secure, scalable, and responsible AI development. Today we’re announcing new Azure AI capabilities that will empower organizations to use AI with even more confidence. Train machine learning (ML) models on-premises and in multi-cloud environments with Azure Arc support for Azure Machine Learning. Deliver cutting-edge search experience in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Josefin Rosén. Artificial intelligence is a powerful force for good and an extraordinary competitive advantage. But, as Peter Parker’s uncle Ben nicely put it, "With great power comes great responsibility.” Or as my friend the Swedish character Pippi Longstocking says, “If you are very strong you must also be very kind!” They are both onto something important: It is important to use powerful techniques responsibly. Bias in data leads to bias in output All humans are biased by nature. By bias, I simply mean our prejudices and preconceived opinions that we use, for instance, when we ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Colin Marden. By Colin Marden, Solutions Architect at AWS Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly important for financial institutions as they look to assess portfolio risk, meet investment mandates, align with customer values, and report on the sustainability of their portfolios. According to a BNP Paribas-sponsored survey, 66 percent of asset managers and institutional investors identified the difficulty of ESG data integration as one of the biggest barriers for asset managers who want to get started with sustainable investing. In response to this challenge, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a curated ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Christie Schneider; Businesses across all industries understand the importance of streamlining and automating reporting, analytics, and scorecarding, in order to make the right decisions faster. However, the reporting process is typically manual, and leaves analysts one step behind. They are usually left to keep up with the collection of historical data, instead of focusing on how to optimize their business based on real-time data. More likely than not, organizations are using inflexible, legacy reporting technology solutions, such as spreadsheets and basic visualization tools. Therefore, tasks that should be easy, such as monthly reports, often ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: George Harot. By George Harot, Product Marketing Director, Documentum – OpenTextBy Alex Dubovik, Global Technology Lead, Business Applications – AWS Large organizations are grappling with increasing volumes and variety of information. Managing the lifecycle of structured data and unstructured content, while simultaneously providing efficient access to it, has never been more challenging. Increased regulations, evolving content types, and new ways of working can make the task seem overwhelming. Information—from official company records like invoices and employment contracts to the ad-hoc, collaborative content used to engage customers and foster product innovation—fuels almost every business ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We are excited to introduce the new AWS High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency featuring AWS Partners with deep technical expertise and proven customer success. These trusted AWS Partners provide technology offerings in areas such as high performance engineering simulation solvers, HPC workload management, high throughput computing, and foundational HPC technology. To help customers run the most compute-intensive workloads across industry verticals, Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers an integrated suite of services that provide everything needed to quickly and easily build and manage HPC clusters in the cloud. These workloads span the ... Read More