Fortude’s confirmation as a holder of the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a visible step up in the company’s Azure credentials and underscores a wider industry trend: Microsoft’s partner program is shifting from simple badge-collection to measurable, audit-backed proof of...
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atQor has announced that it has successfully renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — a high‑bar credential in the Microsoft partner ecosystem — and says the renewal audit was completed in a single day, underscoring the company’s focus on secure cloud...
Trapeze Workforce Management has partnered with Microsoft to build a cloud-native, SaaS-based reporting platform that embeds Microsoft Fabric and OneLake to deliver both paginated historical reports and real-time dashboards for transit operations—an initiative funded through Microsoft’s End...
ASDA’s renewed and expanded technology agreement with Microsoft marks a decisive step in the supermarket’s pivot to a cloud-first, AI-enabled operating model — a strategy the retailer says will sharpen price leadership, improve product availability, and free colleagues from repetitive tasks so...
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Microsoft’s Fabric platform just widened its berth for enterprise data: Fabric now supports mirroring from Oracle and Google BigQuery into OneLake, and it adds a native graph database built on technology from LinkedIn to model relationships at scale. The mirroring capability creates a Delta...
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KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...
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Semarchy’s new integration with Microsoft Fabric delivers a practical bridge between enterprise-grade master data management and the Fabric analytics and AI stack, publishing Semarchy’s enriched “golden” records and semantic models into Microsoft OneLake so Power BI, Fabric services, and GitHub...
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Semarchy’s latest push to embed mastered, governed data into Microsoft’s Fabric stack signals a pragmatic next step in the race to make enterprise data both AI-ready and business-ready — bringing golden records, semantic models, and DataOps workflows directly into OneLake so Power BI, GitHub...
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Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...
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Neo4j’s new Infinigraph architecture, anchored by a technique it calls property sharding, promises to finally break the company out of its historical scalability box — allowing a single Neo4j deployment to run both high-throughput transactional (OLTP) and deep analytical (OLAP) workloads at...
Point B’s announcement that it has been named a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) and awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a purposeful deepening of the firm’s cloud analytics practice—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft’s partner credentials carry...
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Sydney Zoo’s IT team has quietly turned a zoo‑wide data tangle into a single analytics surface, adopting Microsoft Fabric to consolidate multiple siloed databases, ingest real‑time operational telemetry and build semantic models that drive business reporting, visitor analytics and future CRM...
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Microsoft’s push to fold advanced generative AI into Azure and Microsoft 365 is no longer an experimental add‑on — it’s a full‑scale platform strategy that reshapes product roadmaps, enterprise buying decisions, and how companies monetize intelligence across workflows.
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HGF has engaged Simpson Associates to modernise its entire data estate on Microsoft Fabric and roll out Microsoft Power BI dashboards, a strategic move the IP firm says will centralise data, automate reporting pipelines, and deliver governed, near‑real‑time executive insights across legal...
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HGF has begun a major overhaul of its data estate, choosing Microsoft Fabric as the technical foundation and Microsoft Power BI for reporting, with Simpson Associates engaged to lead platform design, implementation and dashboard delivery—a move that aims to replace fragmented legacy reporting...
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NTT DATA has created a dedicated global business unit for the Microsoft Cloud to accelerate enterprise-grade, AI-driven business transformation — a move that consolidates Microsoft-focused sales, delivery, engineering, and industry expertise under a single, AI-first organization intended to move...
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NTT DATA’s new, dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud formalizes a major strategic bet: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI and cloud modernization from pilots into...
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NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud crystallizes a strategic shift: tightly coupling a major systems integrator’s scale with Microsoft’s evolving AI platform to move agentic AI from pilots into regulated, production-grade enterprise deployments at speed and scale.
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Microsoft’s latest fiscal Q4 2025 earnings call has set a new bar for ambition, innovation, and risk as the company positions itself at the very heart of the AI, cloud, and quantum technology revolutions. The numbers themselves—record-breaking as they were—only form a backdrop for a sprawling...
Artificial intelligence has reached an inflection point in the enterprise, with Microsoft’s ambitious AI agenda now reverberating across industries, geographies, and organizational boundaries. Nowhere is this more evident than in the series of transformations stewarded by Judson Althoff...
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