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Microsoft announces landmark offerings during Build 2023

Announced at Microsoft Build 2023, the company has announced that it will adopt the same open plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT to enable interoperability across ChatGPT and the Microsoft’s Catrin offerings.

ServiceNow bolsters Now Platform and Microsoft AI partnership

ServiceNow has announced significant expansions to its Now Platform’s capabilities offering businesses new, faster, and more efficient ways to work.

Microsoft Pegasus Program takes to the skies

Microsoft have unveiled its Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program which connects growth-stage startups to thousands of Microsoft’s top customers.

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PwC unlocks new AI capabilities with Microsoft

PwC US has unveiled its plans to invest $1bn over the next three years to expand and scale its AI offerings to help clients reimagine their businesses through the power of generative AI.

Microsoft Q3 beats expectations as cloud stays afloat

Microsoft has posted its Q3 results showing revenue and EPS to have beaten expectations.

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BAE Systems and Microsoft team up to equip digital defense in the cloud

BAE Systems and Microsoft have entered into a strategic partnership which aims to support faster and easier development, deployment and management of digital defense capabilities in an increasingly data centric world.

ERP Today Live! with Microsoft UK

Can today's professionals create value for everyone from stakeholders to employees and customers? Find out with Mark McCardle, CFO, Microsoft UK, and Alison Wright, SMB & Corporate Scale Director, Microsoft UK.

Platform Housing Group selects EY to rehome finance functions

Platform Housing Group (Platform) has selected EY and its in-house consultancy capability, EY Microsoft Services Group, to reshape its finance function.

Viridor energized as Microsoft Dynamics 365 cuts costs by a quarter

Viridor, a UK resource recovery and recycling management services provider, chooses to implement a Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution.

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Unilever goes cloud-only with Accenture and Microsoft

Accenture, Microsoft, and Unilever have successfully completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry.

Microsoft Security Copilot is ready for takeoff

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Security Copilot, a cyber threat detection tool to bring the next generation of AI to cybersecurity.

Reputation on the line? Tech redundancies and jostling for future business

Exploring recent tech redundancies with the enterprise tech ecosystem, and why layoffs are never a good look.

Microsoft’s supply chain VP gives the hard macro outlook

Interview with Ray Smith, vice president supply chain at Microsoft on black swan events and data lakes.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot ‘takes off’ ERP admin

Microsoft says it is on a mission to bring next-generation AI to every line of business. That (presumably) means AI in sales, finance, procurement, supply chain management and everything in-between right down to admin and building premises security. Perhaps more...

SAP and Microsoft join fight for digital future with Nottingham University

SAP has announced the launch of a NextGen Lab at the University of Nottingham to help students receive the necessary skills for the future.

Salesforce first to sell ChatGPT, promising IP safety

ChatGPT hype sees Salesforce launch Einstein GPT, billed as the "world’s first generative AI CRM technology."

Is Microsoft pushing one partner for Dynamics 365?

Dynamics 365 MVPs aren't happy as Bam Boom Cloud appears to take the sales limelight for Microsoft.

The UK government wants to reload the Matrix. But is there a glitch?

According to the architects of the government’s shared services cluster strategy, the civil service has a lack of interoperability, a problem for which, they think they have a solution. The project’s name: the Matrix Programme.

Microsoft prunes as even industrial metaverse isn’t safe from industry woes

Microsoft has announced a fresh round of job cuts, effectively culling its industrial metaverse unit, amid slowing growth and ongoing waves of macroeconomic uncertainty.

The birth of fusion teams

How fusion teams speed up business transformation initiatives and reduce the barrier between IT and the rest of the business.

Bard for business? Google enters the chatbot game

Google has entered the AI chatbot arena with Bard, an artificial intelligence search tool. What does it mean for enterprise?

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Lifecycle Software dials into Microsoft to enhance mobile systems

Lifecycle Software has entered into a collaboration with Microsoft that will see the company leverage the Microsoft Cloud across its solutions, enabling some of the biggest mobile operators to provide better services to customers. Based in the UK, Lifecycle Software...

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Microsoft Q2 earnings scrape by expectations

In the first of the big tech earnings season announcements, Microsoft has beaten earnings per share expectations with $2.30, adjusted to $2.32 non-GAAP for the period ending 31 December. However, revenue, despite a two percent increase from the same period...

LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft have entered into a new long-term strategic partnership to architect LSEG’s data infrastructure using the Microsoft Cloud, and to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics.

Electric Sheep: The two-horse race in AI

Which company is the Switzerland of AI? Why have AWS and Microsoft failed? Who is leading in artificial intelligence? Find out with Holger Mueller, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research.

The Metaverse – saving the world, one avatar at a time?

The metaverse: an alternate digital world that changes the face of work, or simply a nuisance to the environment? With the introduction of the metaverse, people all over the world can explore this new type of virtual reality all via a digital oasis. This brave new world will likely come powered by AI, cloud, web3 and Big Data.

Microsoft in supply chain first for disruptive decade

The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, which bundles together AI, collaboration, low-code, security and SaaS apps, is not a scare tactic. As Redmond tells ERP Today, supply chain disruption is the new status quo.

Adobe has already doomed the metaverse

Pantone blues and Figma fallout: Adobe, not Meta, is the metaverse's biggest threat.

UiPath targets midmarket with Neostella partnership

Enterprise automation vendor, UiPath, has announced an enhanced diamond partnership with Neostella, to provide flexible automation investment and usage models for midmarket businesses.

Microsoft Azure to power Lakeba marketplace

Microsoft has entered into a strategic partnership with global venture catalyst firm Lakeba to boost the scalability and security of its technology-led businesses.

Microsoft Q1 reveals cloud wins amidst net income falls

Microsoft's first quarter 2023 financial results show an 11 percent revenue increase, to $50.1bn year on year. The net income for the technology giant, however, has fallen by 14 percent.