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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 partnered with Microsoft to utilize Microsoft Azure for enhanced speed, resilience, and security in its Business Support Systems, enabling telecom operators to provide improved customer services and support growth.

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Microsoft Q2 earnings scrape by expectations

Microsoft reported better-than-expected earnings per share for Q2 2023 but missed revenue forecasts, reflecting slowed consumer demand and significant declines in personal computing revenue amidst ongoing challenges and a commitment to AI investments.

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.

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UBS takes to the cloud with Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. and UBS have strengthened their cloud capabilities with a partnership expansion, to accelerate UBS’s public cloud footprint over the next five years.

Microsoft taps SAP, artsy AI for Ignite 2022

Microsoft Ignite 2022 kicked off on Wednesday 12th, not with a bang, nor a flash but a zettabyte-sized program of announcements aimed at helping them achieve their goal of empowering their customers to do more with less.

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Capgemini and Microsoft collab with cloud-native digital twin solution

Capgemini and Microsoft are collaborating to deliver a first-of-its-kind, cloud-native, serverless Azure-based digital twin platform, called Reflect IoD.

Microsoft further wraps up in Kyndryl

Kyndryl and Microsoft have expanded their global strategic partnership to help customers expand and increase access to valuable mainframe data.

FSIs have embraced cloud – but what’s next in the name of security?

Banks have embraced digital as a transformational advantage, to meet the demands of customers seeking seamless, reliable and “always-on” solutions.

UiPath named Microsoft partner at FORWARD 5

UiPath announces new Microsoft partnership and additional software enhancements at its FORWARD 5 conference in Las Vegas. Key UiPath platform offerings such as Automation Cloud, Process Mining and Test Manager are now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Netflix and chill on the Mega-Deal?

The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.

Microsoft predicts upbeat 2023 with latest earnings

Microsoft reported Q4 2022 revenue of $51.9bn, a 12% increase year-over-year but below Wall Street expectations, while predicting strong double-digit growth for the coming fiscal year driven by cloud computing, despite challenges from macroeconomic factors and market conditions.

Accelerating Oracle modernization with Tricentis solutions

Microsoft inspires with cloud sovereignty and AI

Microsoft Inspire 2022 saw Redmond introduce a series of updates, new partner opportunities and changes at the virtual event.

Sage and Microsoft expand partnership to simplify workflows

Sage has expanded its partnership with Microsoft with new plans to integrate Microsoft Business Products, including Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, as embedded services in Sage products and the Sage Digital Network.

SAP moves first to control costs in wake of economic uncertainty

A certain existential crisis of the employee sort has been spreading across enterprise as of late. Microsoft announced small layoffs as part of a business realignment this week, while a staff-wide email on Tuesday from Google's CEO warned employees of consolidation due to the “uncertain global economic outlook.”

Windows incompatibility poses a dual threat to enterprise

The end of Internet Explorer grabbed a lot of tech news headlines. But another interesting nugget of Microsoft-related news went under the radar recently.

Microsoft announces Viva Sales

Microsoft has introduced Viva Sales, an AI-driven application designed to enhance sellers' customer engagement by integrating insights from Microsoft 365 and Teams, streamlining workflows, and providing personalized recommendations to expedite deal closures.

Microsoft and SAP continue 25 year innovation partnership

Microsoft and SAP continue to advance our partnership by deepening our commitment to each other’s platform. Microsoft will be the first public cloud provider to adopt the RISE with SAP solution internally to transform some of its large SAP ERP deployments.