Mediterranean Shipping Company is using SQL Server 2025 and Microsoft Fabric to move global shipping data from delayed batch reporting toward near real-time analytics, while testing database-native AI features such as vector search, embeddings, and semantic querying for future operational...
NTT DATA announced on May 15, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a California-based Microsoft partner specializing in agentic AI, Azure cloud development, data engineering, and enterprise application modernization. The deal is not just another...
NTT DATA said on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists after closing. The deal is...
NTT DATA signed a definitive agreement in May 2026 to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft-focused AI and Azure services partner, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists to expand enterprise AI, agentic AI, data engineering, and cloud-native transformation work. The...
On May 15, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story saying Italian retail operator Multicedi modernized its data platform with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Database in Fabric, OneLake, Spark, and AI-assisted analytics to accelerate decisions across more than 600 stores. The headline number...
Microsoft published a March 6, 2026 customer story saying Tata Realty & Infrastructure Ltd. has moved enterprise analytics onto Microsoft Fabric, reducing data processing time by 20 percent and annual analytics costs by 20 to 30 percent while preparing its real estate operations for AI-driven...
Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are making a familiar industrial promise sound newly urgent: if factories can sense trouble earlier, reason over live data faster, and trigger better responses without waiting for a human to stitch together dashboards, downtime should fall. The companies’ new...
The announcement that System Support has obtained the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization is more than a badge for a subsidiary on a press page. It signals that the company has met Microsoft’s formal bar for analytics capability, including the right mix of Solutions Partner status, Azure...
Nisshin Flour Milling’s push toward a real-time data platform is a useful case study in a much larger manufacturing trend: the move from isolated plant dashboards to shared, enterprise-wide operational intelligence. The company had already modernized its mills with MES-based visualization in the...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot Studio update is a meaningful step toward making enterprise AI feel less like a collection of isolated bots and more like an interconnected operating layer. The company is pushing multi-agent orchestration, Fabric-aware reasoning, and Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability...
Microsoft’s data career ladder has changed, and the difference matters. DP-203 is no longer an active certification exam: Microsoft retired the Azure Data Engineer Associate exam on March 31, 2025, and now points candidates toward DP-700, Fabric Data Engineer Associate, for the modern...
Microsoft is pushing Copilot Studio beyond the old “single agent, single task” model and into something much closer to an enterprise orchestration layer. In its latest update, the company says multi-agent systems are now generally available, alongside changes to the Prompt Builder, broader model...
Prominent Comfort Producten’s move to Microsoft Fabric is a useful snapshot of where retail data strategy is heading in 2026: away from fragmented reporting stacks and toward a governed, AI-ready operating foundation. The Netherlands-based furniture retailer says the shift reduced platform...
Preparing for Azure certification in 2026 means understanding not just what the exams cover, but how Microsoft’s certification roadmap has shifted beneath them. AZ-900 remains the standard entry point for Azure fundamentals, while the older DP-203 data engineering exam was retired on March 31...
Informatica’s latest expansion of its Microsoft partnership is more than another routine cloud announcement. It signals that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring and...
Informatica’s latest move with Microsoft is more than a routine partner update: it is a signal that the enterprise data market is increasingly being shaped by platform gravity, not just point integrations. The company is expanding its collaboration around Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring and...
Informatica’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft is more than a routine partner announcement: it is a signal that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring inside...
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Informatica’s latest expansion of its Microsoft partnership is more than another routine cloud announcement. It signals a maturing alliance aimed at solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: getting governed, trustworthy, near-real-time data into the places where analytics and...
Informatica’s latest Microsoft collaboration is more than a routine partner update: it is a signal that the data-management layer around Microsoft Fabric is becoming increasingly important to enterprise AI strategy. The company says support for Fabric Open Mirroring in Informatica Intelligent...
Informatica’s latest move with Microsoft Fabric and Azure in Switzerland is more than another cloud partnership press release. It is a signal that enterprise data platforms are being reshaped around two pressures at once: AI-ready data movement and data sovereignty. By deepening its Fabric...