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While innovation has supplanted cost savings as the primary driver of cloud migration for many businesses, moving to the cloud needs to make sense for your bottom line. Microsoft Azure offers unique cost savings options. View: Reduce costs with unbeatable offers

When the pandemic ushered in a new reality of social  distancing, Mercy Housing was able to continue supporting the  residents and  communities it serves while keeping everyone safe—thanks in part to using Microsoft Teams. This customer story shows how Teams  has allowed the organization to maintain critical services, connect with residents and communities, and focus on its mission—all while  supporting highly secure environments for remote work. Read More...

Learn how organizations drive profitability and innovation using predictive financial insights with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. Dynamics 365 Finance enables users to modernize their global financial operations, monitor performance in real time, predict future outcomes, and make data-driven decisions to foster business growth. View...

With Microsoft, security can be simple once again. Microsoft 365 provides an intelligent security hub that works seamlessly across platforms, going far beyond Microsoft—to Linux and Mac, to AWS and beyond, so you can manage mission critical workloads with the right tools at your fingertips. Watch the video to learn more. View...

As societies and workplaces become more digitized, our culture does, too. This daily interaction with technology engenders fascination and speculation about the role devices and technological advancements will play in our societies' future. Some—if not most— of these assumptions are based on artistic portrayals of the future of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), and they are often far from providing an accurate representation of what actually awaits us in the realm of AI and machine learning. Read this article to uncover the truth behind 12 misconceptions about AI and get a more accurate view of the present and future capabilities of this technology. Read More...

When e-commerce and online retail first appeared, many people—including some experts—speculated that it signaled the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar retailers. For a moment, there was near agreement that physical stores were a thing of the past, but this was a misconception. As with other overblown predictions, the so-called end of retail stores didn't happen. Instead, the industry was taken over by a new breed of tech-savvy retailers that harnessed the power of digital transformation and analytics to create unified, alluring experiences for today's consumers. Retailers are still adapting to this new, digitally driven business model, but most are already reaping the benefits that the new digital ecosystem offers. In this article, you'll learn about the challenges that retailers can face in analyzing their business performance, and what they can do to improve on their data-driven initiatives. Read More...

In this episode of This Week in Cognitive, host Noelle LaCharite explores how quick and easy it is to create a chatbot that can answer top-of-mind questions for employees or customers. Leveraging QnA Maker, she builds a bot in minutes from a FAQ website and even gives it some personality.  View...

The healthcare sector faces constant threats from fraud, waste, and abuse. It's estimated that $455 billion is lost every year from FWA. This informative thought leadership piece outlines the many kinds of fraud affecting the healthcare system, including false billing, upcoding, unbundling, and unnecessary services. Read More...

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In this video, discover five ways to digitally transform your business to manufacture a better future with Microsoft. Equipping your business with intelligent manufacturing improves your customers' business outcomes while increasing your own margins and competitiveness. Learn more with this video. View...

In December 2018, five federal agencies in the US issued a joint statement encouraging banks to implement innovative approaches to transform fraud operations. As a recognized leader in security, Microsoft developed an advanced AI-powered fraud protection system to rise to the challenge. This infographic outlines how Microsoft uses AI to combat cyber and financial crime. View: Combatting financial crime infographic

Microsoft is devoted to providing customers with reliable data forecasting and protecting against fraud vulnerabilities. This pitch deck includes key benefits, values, and statistics so you can navigate educating your customers. Focus sections include optimizing financial operations, revenue protection, adapting to risks, and reducing costs. View: Manage financial risk and reduce fraud pitch deck

Microsoft 365 biedt bedrijven van elke omvang en in elke bedrijfstak de tools en kennis die hun teams nodig hebben om hun werk efficiënt en effectief uit te kunnen voeren. Bekijk acht manieren waarop de juiste technologie je eerstelijnsmedewerkers in staat stelt hun werk te transformeren en tot een succes te maken. Read More...

Bekijk hoe zorgorganisatie East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation Trust op een geheel nieuwe manier met zorgverleners en patiënten communiceert met behulp van Microsoft Teams en Surface-apparatuur, zodat ze hun digitale programma #TimeMatters kunnen realiseren. View...

Deze infographic geeft inzicht in de redenen waarom Surface de populairste keuze is geworden voor de organisaties en de medewerkers van vandaag. View: De manier waarop we werken transformeren

This infographic displays  stats  on how Microsoft Teams reduces the total number of meetings as well as their duration from improved collaboration and information sharing.  View: Saving time with Microsoft Teams

This tool will estimate the quality of the experience your users will receive when connecting to Windows Virtual Desktop. Read More...

Digital transformation has enabled businesses to reduce costs, streamline operations, embrace entirely new business models, and discover untapped revenue channels. Many of these benefits come from implementing data-driven technologies, including machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), that transform the increasing amounts of data produced by today's organizations into useful insights that can foster new strategies. Despite the massive potential of these technologies, only 37 percent of businesses that adopt them report successful initiatives. In this infographic, you'll learn about the main challenges that modern organizations face in implementing AI and ML, and how you can overcome them by using Microsoft Azure AI. View: The main challenges of advanced analytics

In a retail industry increasingly dominated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, digital transformation, and review-based shopping, modern consumers are never short of options for evaluating and purchasing their favorite products and services. While these tools foster remarkable shopping experiences, they also challenge retailers, who must become increasingly innovative in their approaches to consumer-facing solutions and strategies for process optimization. In this infographic, you'll see how Microsoft Strategic Retail Solutions can be employed during each of these stages to increase employee satisfaction and create revenue-generating experiences. View: Deliver a modern customer journey with Microsoft

When the Salvation Army Switzerland needed a way to better understand and connect with donors and patrons, they worked with a Microsoft partner to create a loyalty program app with Microsoft Power Apps. The organization uses Dynamics 365 to glean insights from their data to inform where to open new stores, how to better manage secondhand shops, and to strengthen relationships with patrons. Read More...

Find out how you can take advantage of offers and tools to maximize your efficiency with Microsoft Azure. Watch this video to get 5 tips to help you save on costs and learn about the tools available to help you efficiently move to the cloud. View...

Microsoft promotes a mature view of risk analytics. This infographic details the tiers of maturity many organizations must work through before reaching an advanced degree of security. View: Maturity of effort infographic

Effective retail solutions provide stakeholders with relevant information and insights. Whether you're building shelves that help shoppers find curated offers, apps that give insights into business performance, or work tools that empower employees to do more with less, you must also provide the data that each user needs to make better-informed decisions. Subscribe now to learn more about how you can create high-impact solutions that elevate customers' shopping experiences through the power of Microsoft Retail Solutions. View: Enrich your customer, manager, and employee experiences. Get started with Microsoft Retail Solutions.

This eBook provides guidance throughout the cloud migration process, from initial considerations to the tools required. Learn how to approach your cloud migration, assess your servers, virtual machines and applications, confidently execute your migration, and optimize your cloud services. View: Cloud Migration Essentials

Microsoft optimizes financial operations while minimizing loss of revenue from fraud. Subscribe now! View: Optimize financial operations and minimize loss from fraud

We're all working in new ways. To stay competitive, your customers need solutions that help them be resilient, connected, and support the flow of work wherever it happens. Set them up for success with Microsoft Teams. Read More...

More organizations are using virtual environments to increase productivity and save money. Learn about the benefits of Windows Virtual Desktop. View: Benefits of Windows Virtual Desktop

Growing populations require increasing amounts of food, so farmers must become as efficient as possible with the resources they have. This means leveraging every tool available to avoid fluctuations in yield output by powering farms with smart technologies that give farmers instant access to accurate data about their operations. From soil-measuring IoT devices to solar-powered irrigation, digital transformation technologies provide the modern farming industry with tools to power growth and increase sustainability worldwide. Subscribe now to learn how smart farming can lead to higher-yield, environmentally friendly operations and how you can get started with Microsoft Azure AI. View: Save energy and resources with smart farming operations. Learn more about Microsoft Azure AI.

24 Hour Fitness stands out in a crowded wellness industry not just for its innovative approach to fitness but for its personalized approach to member services. The company is applying data analytics to member marketing by connecting Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Adobe Experience Cloud hosted on Microsoft Azure to personalize messages to millions of members at its 400-plus US health clubs. View...

Explore how Ullman Dynamics, the world leader in suspension seats, is transforming their business by migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the cloud. View...

Each day, Dun & Bradstreet receives 5 million database updates from over 30,000 global sources. This results in the world's largest commercial database, which can be used to improve business processes and make profitable decisions. View...

When The Walsh Group—one of the largest construction contractors in the United States—moved to the cloud, it realized it needed better ways to manage who accesses its systems. The company set up identity as the control plane—with Microsoft Azure Active Directory at the center and a zero-trust security stance to better protect access to all its resources. Now, The Walsh Group CIO says the company leads the industry in securing access to its hybrid environment, giving it a competitive advantage. Read the article for more. Read More...

Stay connected with Microsoft Teams while working from home with the help of the "Meet now" feature. In this video, you'll learn  how to use  "Meet now,"  which gives you the ability to turn  a team  chat  conversation into an instant  remote  meeting. View...

Get all the tools and resources you need to migrate  your  apps, data, and infrastructure at your own pace  with confidence.  In the video,  learn how Windows Virtual Desktop expands capabilities with the best virtualized end-user experience. View...

Without proper access to running water, farming can be a daunting task. Yet this is the reality that farmers must confront in some parts of Kenya. Such conditions severely limit their ability to increase their yields and secure a stable income for themselves and their family. To make matters more difficult, they also face the problem of a very short rainy season. This alone makes sustaining adequate water levels challenging, but it's compounded by reliance on wells for irrigation. In this video, you'll see how Monica, an independent farmer in East Africa, has leveraged digital transformation to overcome these challenges. You'll learn how IoT devices, solar energy, and Microsoft Azure can combine to sustain profitable farming operations, even in some of the harshest conditions on the planet. View...

Among the objectives of digital transformation is making information more accessible to those who need it, whether they're consumers, decision-makers, or employees. The retail industry is no exception, and businesses have taken advantage of many innovative solutions to enrich their stakeholders' experiences by using customer-facing applications and digital workplace tools. Retailers now have better insights into how their customers perceive their brands, and these businesses are able to make more-informed decisions. In this video, you'll discover how industry leader Kroger is using Microsoft technology to empower its consumers, employees, and CPG providers with unique digital solutions. View...

This infographic illustrates the world-class flexibility, security, integration, and reliability of Azure App Service - a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps. View: Azure App Service

Identify and repel more threats than ever before with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Security, and Azure Sentinel. Take a look to learn more about intelligent security solutions for your entire enterprise. View: Security intelligent infographic

This infographic outlines how you can  stay in touch with the hub for  teamwork in Office 365. With Microsoft Teams you can connect, collaborate, and come together  securely  by meeting with your peers and getting work done anywhere—even remotely.  View: Now is the time for Microsoft  Teams

As mobile devices became more user-friendly, media-focused, and accessible, consumers gain always-on access to the benefits of digital transformation. Such devices also provide retail businesses with the tools to create more-personalized experiences tailored to each user's unique preferences and shopping habits. But the benefits don't stop there. Retailers have realized that digital technology can be as useful for customer-facing applications as it is for internal processes, and they've started employing it to help their workers provide immediate solutions to customer issues. While mobile solutions have become crucial tools for employees, they pose a new challenge for retailers: Should they choose private-label or off-the-shelf devices? In this article, you'll learn about the pros and cons of each to help you decide which works best for your business. Read More...

Microsoft 365 guards your data as a valuable asset. With security built-in, not bolted on, integration and deployment are simplified. Subscribe now to learn more. View: Largest and most trusted

Deliver connected and empathetic customer experiences. View: Deliver connected and empathetic customer experiences

The United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited (UFA) is a prominent agriculture Co-operative that supplies a variety of services and products to its customers. UFA hit a roadblock when its on-premises SAP infrastructure began slowing productivity and creating errors, so they approached Microsoft for help. UFA migrated their SAP to Microsoft Azure in just over a month, eliminating performance issues, reducing software implementation times, and gaining scalability. View...

To truly become a game-changer, artificial intelligence (AI) can't be limited to a one-time effort. It requires a constant influx of data and the right expertise to teach machines how to analyze and react to user behaviors. This means that while immediate or short-term ROI from AI initiatives is a rare occurrence, when it does begin to pay off, the resulting innovations and efficiencies can drive an organization's growth for years to come. Taking the time to analyze trends and establish the right vision for your organization's AI roadmap is a critical but frequently overlooked step toward adopting this technology. In this article, you'll learn about five soon-to-be AI trends that are expected to influence this technology in a major way. Read More...

Tivoli Gardens, the world's second-oldest and the most beloved amusement park in Europe, continues its long tradition of imagination and innovation with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. View...

GE is transforming from an industrial leader to a digital industrial leader, using software and sensors to make its machines connected, responsive, and pred... View...

With data growing increasingly valuable and harder to protect, Microsoft provides security solutions across identity and access management, information protection, threat protection and security management. Harness integrated, comprehensive security with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Security, and Azure Sentinel to identify and repel more threats than ever before and safeguard your organization, without sacrificing productivity. View...

In this article, explore how small businesses can better assesses the risk(s) to them from criminal behavior, include phishing and other cyber-attacks. Then review the scope of activities you need to consider and a checklist you can follow. Read More...

Urbaser, world leader in environmental management, opts for Windows Virtual Desktop so that their employees in Spain can continue developing their work activity from any location, with their own computers and with the highest levels of security. Read More...

This one-slide for Teams Meetings and Calling provides insights on how to power up a remote employee with #Microsoft Teams. Learn ways to expand collaboration while working remotely, as well as streamline connections across devices, all while keeping teams engaged, connected, and secure. View: Expand collaboration while working remotely, keeping your team engaged, connected, and secure

In business, a virtuous cycle is a set of recurring processes in which the objective of each is to increase the beneficial effect on the next. Not so long ago, the typical purchase pattern was linear. Further, it involved very few steps from the time consumers first learned about a product or service to the time they purchased it. With the arrival of digital transformation, though, both online and brick-and-mortar retailers are adapting to a new virtuous cycle, one in which personalized experiences are the norm and digital customer service tools play crucial roles in making or breaking a purchase every step of the way. In this infographic, you'll learn how digital technology has driven retail's virtuous cycle and get insights into how you can improve your customers' experiences via Microsoft Retail Solutions. View: The virtuous cycle of retail

Digital transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT) together have enabled businesses worldwide to gain deeper understanding of their customers. They've also allowed organizations to obtain data from previously untapped sources to better understand how processes can be optimized, but obtaining this data is only part of the equation. To transform massive amounts of raw information into meaningful insights, businesses must leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that offer the flexibility and power they need. In this infographic, you'll learn about the four Microsoft guiding principles for AI that make Azure AI a top choice among today's leading enterprises. View: Microsoft's four guiding principles for artificial intelligence

This analysis from Gartner studies 4 trends that will shape cloud adoption in 2020: cost efficiency, multi-cloud vendor flexibility, the impact of cloud IaaS skills on migrations, and advances in service availability made possible by distributed clouds. Read More...

Microsoft has the tools, resources, and experience to help your business manage financial risk while fighting against fraud. This infographic visually represents potential vulnerabilities and explains how fraud detection serves to eliminate them. View: Transformation potential infographic

This video shows how you can pull together a team with Microsoft Teams on your PC, Mac, or mobile device. Use chat instead of email, securely edit files at the same time, see your likes, mentions, and replies with just a single tap, and have the freedom to customize it all by adding notes, websites, and apps. Read More...

Merchandise and customer service have traditionally been the main focus of the retail industry's portfolio. Digital transformation now allows retailers to expand on their main capabilities and develop innovative solutions that boost their bottom line, as well as that of their partners and clients. Digital is reshaping retail into a more diverse, tech-infused industry where innovation is king and disruption creates new collaboration opportunities. Subscribe now to learn how to get the most from your existing retail applications by leveraging Microsoft technology to diversify your service portfolio. View: Expand your offerings portfolio with innovative digital solutions. Get started with Microsoft Retail Solutions.

No one can control the weather, but thanks to increased adoption of IoT devices, farmers can now measure and control nearly every aspect of their holdings. Further, by using advanced platforms like Microsoft Azure IoT, farmers can use their mobile devices to get information and to control their operations from virtually anywhere in the world. Subscribe now to learn more about how devices can leverage the power of Microsoft Azure IoT to enable smart farming and ensure productive oversight. View: Increase oversight and control of farming operations. Get started with Microsoft Azure IoT.

Today's organizations need flexible, secure, and intuitive digital tools that allow employees to perform their jobs from virtually anywhere. Organizations also require seamless collaboration capabilities that foster innovative ideas and allow them to mature into high-impact initiatives. Thankfully, getting the most out of the industry's leading productivity applications has never been easier. Subscribe now to learn how you can transform your business into a modern, cloud-based workplace with the help of Microsoft 365. View: Inspire and empower employees with cloud-based collaboration. Get started with Microsoft 365.

Microsoft helps you minimize loss of revenue associated with fraud and wrongful rejections. Subscribe now to learn more! View: Minimize loss of revenue associated with fraud

The world has changed dramatically due to the global health crisis. Organizations have had to quickly shift focus and give users remote access to their corporate desktops and important applications. Many have turned to Windows Virtual Desktop, built on Azure, to quickly provision and scale virtual desktops and applications faster than was previously possible. Read More...

This migration checklist provides easy, step-by-step guidance on the tools, planning, and resources you'll need to migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure to the cloud with confidence—no matter where you currently are in the process. View: Cloud Migration Checklist: Simple steps to start your migration today

The global COVID-19 Pandemic presented a challenge to Salvation Army locations across the world—how to continue serving people who rely on The Salvation Army while still staying safe and adhering to social distancing? Microsoft CVP Jared Spataro and The Salvation Army Commissioner Merle Heatwole discuss how Microsoft Teams is helping connect employees from The Salvation Army's international headquarters in London, helping them maintain their relationship with international chapters who rely on their support. View...

Enabling Always On service empowers agents and operations to provide an efficient personalized response across channels. This video highlights the many benefits your organization and customers will enjoy when you use powerful tools from Microsoft.  View...

The best work is often done by people from different backgrounds, departments, and even geographical locations. How do you work efficiently as a team without adding another tool everyone has to learn? In this e-book, you will discover how to quickly start using Microsoft Teams to: (1) Communicate instantly with chat, online meetings, calls, and more. (2) Set up meetings with file sharing, recording, and transcription. (3) Coedit documents in real time without leaving the app. (4) Collaborate with people both inside and outside your organization. (5) Connect other business apps to toggle less and save time. View: Crash Course in Microsoft Teams

Remote Assist empowers technicians to collaborate more efficiently by working together from different locations with Dynamics 365. This infographic highlights the many benefits to employee productivity and customer satisfaction. View: Remote Assist 

Global losses from fraud topped $90 billion in 2018, with related costs near a crippling $175 billion. Unreliable processes, regulation and compliance, and many more issues add even more layers of risk to your organization. With Microsoft, you can protect your revenue with predictive data and smart automation to help optimize financial operations. Watch this video to see how Manage Financial Risk and Reduce Fraud solutions from Microsoft can help save you time, money, and your reputation. View...

Experience what a day might look like in the life of a Volunteer Manager who uses #MicrosoftTeams to recruit, train, and deploy volunteers to help reach constituents and communities quickly and effectively in times of need. View: Day in the life of a Volunteer Manager

Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running on the cloud. It is the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Remote Desktop Services environments. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, with built-in security and compliance. View...

Innovative solutions that increase revenue and generate industrywide disruption are the Holy Grail of digital transformation. Developing such solutions isn't simple, though. It requires accurate insights, significant research and development (R&D), and a stable, accessible platform that can make the solution easily available to partners and clients. The effort can be well worth it, as groundbreaking applications can open up new revenue streams, enable complementary capabilities, and foster long-lasting partnerships that can elevate a business to new heights. In this video, you'll learn how the Kroger Co. technology division is leading the industry by leveraging Microsoft tools to provide its own innovations as a new offering: retail as a service. View...

Sustainable energy and digital transformation can combine to provide new avenues to success and increase convenience for people in isolated areas. This is especially true in places without a modern electrical infrastructure where residents rely on labor-intensive tasks. Innovative solutions can help them automate simple tasks, often making the difference between mere survival and prosperity. In many parts of Africa, for example, farmers lack access to running water. Instead they rely on wells to sustain their families, water their crops, and support their livestock. In this video, you'll see how Monica, an independent farmer in Kenya, increased her yields and quality of life by implementing a solar-powered irrigation system based on Microsoft Azure IoT. View...

One of the defining aspects of modern productivity and collaboration tools is their ability to unify an entire organization in a single hub where ideas can be proposed and shared. This capability is crucial for keeping information from being siloed and ensuring that stakeholders have the highest possible visibility into their projects. Collaboration tools also play a key role in fostering innovation and mobility. They allow team members to instantly propose ways that ideas and processes can be improved, and do so from virtually any device or location in the world. In this video, you'll see how the city of Houston, Texas, is using digital transformation to increase efficiency by empowering its employees via the collaboration capabilities of Microsoft 365. View...

Learn the basics of .NET with Microsoft's .NET Core 101. This eight-video series discusses what .NET is, what its benefits are, who builds it, and more. Learn how .NET helps you develop high-quality applications faster. You will also learn how to install, debug, and publish apps. Read More...