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Microsoft Research and Physics Wallah team up to enhance AI-based tutoring
In India, limited resources, geographical constraints, and economic factors present barriers to quality higher education for some students. A shortage of teachers, particularly in remote or low-income areas, makes it harder for students to receive the guidance they need to prepare for highly competitive professional and academic programs.
New data analytics tools deliver speedier packages, better patient care and more
When Microsoft unveiled Azure Synapse Analytics a year ago, the company promised to put data and the power of analytics at people’s fingertips – anywhere in an organisation – while freeing up skilled tech workers to focus on higher-value tasks than managing data infrastructure.
New data analytics tools aim to help deliver speedier packages, better patient care and more
When Microsoft unveiled Azure Synapse Analytics a year ago, the company promised to put data and the power of analytics at people’s fingertips – anywhere in an organization – while freeing up skilled tech workers to focus on higher-value tasks than managing data infrastructure.
Shell, Microsoft find common ground in drive to reduce CO2 emissions
Microsoft and Shell have enjoyed a long and productive relationship, built on deep connections that stretch back decades. Shell was one of the first global businesses to adopt the Windows operating system across its entire enterprise. More recently, Shell has been a pioneer in digital transformation, embracing technologies that improve efficiency and safety, and accelerate development of cleaner energy sources. This includes major deployments of Azure, Microsoft 365 and the Power platform.
How Genesys is personalizing the customer experience with Engage, Azure and AI
Microsoft and Genesys, a global provider of contact center software, recently announced a partnership to enable enterprises to run Genesys’ omnichannel customer experience solution, Genesys Engage, on Microsoft Azure. According to the two companies, this combination will provide a secure cloud environment to help companies more easily leverage AI to address customer needs on any channel. Headquartered in Daly City, California, Genesys has more than 5,000 employees in nearly 60 offices worldwide.
The making of the HoloLens 2: How advanced AI built Microsoft’s vision for ubiquitous computing
The first time people don the new HoloLens 2 on their heads, the device automatically gets to know them: It measures everything from the precise shape of their hands to the exact distance between their eyes.
Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2 millimeters thick. It was the first proof of concept test for Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project that uses recent discoveries in ultrafast laser optics and artificial intelligence to store data in quartz glass.
Microsoft’s new approach to hybrid: Azure services when and where customers need them
As business computing needs have grown more complex and sophisticated, many enterprises have discovered they need multiple systems to meet various requirements – a mix of technology environments in multiple locations, known as hybrid IT or hybrid cloud. Technology vendors have responded with an array of services and platforms – public clouds, private clouds and the growing “edge” computing model – but there hasn’t necessarily been a cohesive strategy to get them to work together.
How Microsoft re-envisioned the data warehouse with Azure Synapse Analytics
About four years ago, the Microsoft Azure team began to notice a big problem troubling many of its customers. A mass migration to the cloud was in full swing, as enterprises signed up by the thousands to reap the benefits of flexible, large–scale computing and data storage. But the next iteration of that tech revolution, in which companies would use their growing stores of data to get more tangible business benefits, had stalled.
How data and AI are helping Deschutes Brewery respond to beer trends faster
Transform recently sat down with several Microsoft customers at an event highlighting emerging trends in data and artificial intelligence (AI). We spoke with Kyle Kotaich, operations technology lead at Deschutes Brewery, a craft beer maker based in Bend, Oregon, that combines data science with brewing expertise to deliver better beer and run a more efficient business. TRANSFORM: How does AI help you run a better business?
Esri explores the intersection of machine learning and geography
Transform recently sat down with several customers at a Microsoft event highlighting emerging trends in data and artificial intelligence (AI). We spoke with Joel McCune, a spatial data scientist in GeoAI business development at Esri, which provides geographic information system (GIS) software. TRANSFORM: How does your company use AI to serve customers? JOEL MCCUNE: Our customers span a tremendous breadth and depth.
Airbus reaches new heights with the help of Microsoft mixed reality technology
It took Airbus 40 years to build its first 10,000 aircraft. Over the next 20 years, the aerospace giant aims to build 20,000 more—a formidable challenge that will require cutting-edge innovation. Holographic technology from Microsoft, known as “mixed reality” because it combines physical and digital worlds, will be key to helping Airbus reach this ambitious goal.
Making AI adoption as simple as possible
Wisam Hirzalla, director of product marketing for Microsoft Azure, at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft. Just a few years ago, artificial intelligence was largely relegated to universities and research labs, a charming computer science concept with little use in mainstream business. Today, AI is being integrated into everything from your refrigerator to your favorite workout app. Lance Olson, director of program management for applied AI at Microsoft.
Solving a common corporate conundrum: Making sense of all that data
Anna Taban-Franz, center, of BookBeat looks at a Power BI visualization of book sales per market in Sweden, Germany and Finland. Photo by Alexander Donka for Microsoft. Most companies today are collecting enormous amounts of data, and chances are they know that data contains crucial insights about everything from what customers want to purchase at 10 p.m. on Friday versus 7 a.m. on Wednesday to how they could run their businesses more efficiently any day of the week.
Microsoft announces new updates aimed at helping businesses more easily adopt AI
Julia White, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Marketing, speaks at the Conversations on AI event in San Francisco. Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft. This week, Microsoft announced several technology updates aimed at helping customers adopt artificial intelligence tools that can yield big benefits for businesses and organizations. The announcements come as most companies say they want to use AI, even though some are struggling to figure out how to do so.
How AI is building better gas stations and transforming Shell’s global energy business
In one part of the solution, they applied a machine teaching framework developed by Bonsai, which was acquired by Microsoft last summer, that allows subject matter experts with little background in data science or AI to tell the system what it wants the intelligent agent to do and what key information it needs to know to do that job successfully.
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