Business Roundup: An imperfect idea, what makes data big, grasping...
Business Roundup is a recurring collection of short takes on topics of interest to Business Matters readers. We compile the latest thinking from Microsoft and other industry experts to showcase how...
View ArticleBusiness Roundup: Healthy food through tech, the happiness-productivity...
Business Roundup is a recurring collection of short takes on topics of interest to Business Matters readers. We compile the latest thinking from Microsoft and other industry experts to showcase how...
View ArticleBusiness Roundup: Digitally empowering retailers, accelerating business and...
Business Roundup is a recurring collection of short takes on topics of interest to Business Matters readers. We compile the latest thinking from Microsoft and other industry experts to showcase how...
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ABB and Microsoft put electric cars on a cloud
Charging your electric car is about to get easier and smarter. The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly. Yet worldwide there are currently just 106,000 public EV charging stations for more...
View ArticleEuropean businesses showcase their digital transformation at Convergence EMEA
The future of business is on display in Barcelona, Spain, as Microsoft Convergence EMEA gets under way. Innovators in a wide range of industries are gathering at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via Conference...
View ArticleConvergence EMEA 2015: Customers pull innovation from the cloud
Convergence EMEA 2015 continued in Barcelona today with speakers, customers and attendees exploring the vast potential of cloud computing. By enabling businesses to draw on virtually unlimited...
View ArticleGE and Microsoft partnership will accelerate digital evolution for industrial...
GE and Microsoft on Monday announced a partnership that will make GE’s Predix platform for the Industrial Internet available on the Microsoft Azure cloud for industrial businesses. The move marks the...
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Facebook CIO: Office 365 ‘complements how we work’ intelligently, flexibly,...
The IT organization at Facebook is implementing Office 365 with CIO Tim Campos calling it “the right technology to empower employees, while also ensuring our business is safe at all times.” “Not only...
View ArticleBoeing and Microsoft: Taking the next step together in digital aviation
Boeing, the company that provided seaplanes for the U.S. Navy in World War I, delivered the first commercial jet airliner in 1958 and unveiled the state-of-the-art 787 Dreamliner earlier this decade,...
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Miami-Dade County embraces technology to build community and make policing...
Across the country, police departments and the citizens they serve are looking for better ways to communicate and work together, and many of those departments — including Miami-Dade, the largest police...
View ArticleLearn how the ‘connected car’ will drive business forward in a cloud-first,...
Since the first time we sat in a driver’s seat, car travel has shaped cities, employment patterns and distribution of goods all over the world. “Smart cars” have further built upon this mobility and...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Daimler help morning commuters make better time
Many of us love our cars, but we don’t necessarily love spending time in them during the work week if it means inching forward on the freeway or being stuck in stop-and-go traffic. When we’re behind...
View ArticleAdobe to deliver its cloud services on Microsoft Azure; Microsoft to make...
Microsoft and Adobe are joining forces in the cloud. On Monday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft and Adobe announced plans for a strategic partnership to help enterprise companies embrace...
View ArticleCities avoid blackouts and leaky toilets as utilities turn to the cloud
When storm clouds are brewing, utilities can rely on the data cloud now to let them know when the power is out and dispatch repair crews even before calls start flooding in from customers. Modern...
View ArticleDesigning women: Microsoft researchers paint a picture of digital...
In this “age of acceleration,” where advances in technology and the globalization of business are transforming entire industries and society itself, it’s more critical than ever for everyone to be...
View ArticleThe financial services industry is banking on digital transformation
In the financial services community, technology has often served as a catalyst for modernization, in recent years marrying fresh tools with decades-old processes. People can apply for insurance...
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How Microsoft cloud computing operations foil – and learn from – cyberattacks
By Allison Linn At any point in time on any day of the week, Microsoft’s cloud computing operations are under attack: The company detects a whopping 1.5 million attempts a day to compromise its...
View ArticleNew .future podcast explores what it takes to keep the cloud safe
The first podcast of .future, a new Microsoft series about making the future happen, explores a battlefield new to many of us: The cloud. The information we store in the cloud makes it especially...
View ArticleMeet the modern collectors of health data in the second .future podcast
Meet those collecting and analyzing health data, from a mindful cyborg to a smart tampon creator, using new technology in the second .future podcast. The podcast, which began last week, is a new...
View ArticleLearn how indie game developers are shaking up the $90 billion industry, in...
Last year, the gaming industry made roughly $90 billion in sales worldwide. That’s more than double what movies made at the box office last year. And here’s why that comparison to Hollywood is...
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