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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Dr. William L. Bain’s career bridges the arc of modern parallel computing — from Bell Labs and Intel research labs through a Microsoft acquisition to founding ScaleOut Software — and his work today pushes operational intelligence and in‑memory computing into production systems where latency...
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Screenvision Media has completed a rapid, high-stakes migration of its core business systems into a multi‑cloud architecture built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a move executed by Oracle‑specialist managed services provider Cintra in an intensive 12‑week program that...
The NFL’s decision to deploy Microsoft Copilot across every club sideline this season marks one of the clearest inflection points yet in the marriage of professional sports and artificial intelligence, trading manual film-scrubbing and static stat sheets for AI-assisted filters, Excel-powered...
Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from meeting rooms to locker rooms, as a renewed NFL partnership elevates Windows-powered tools from simple sideline devices to full-blown, AI-augmented decision systems that promise faster insights, richer scouting, and—most provocatively—assistive playcalling...
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The NFL and Microsoft have quietly but decisively moved a decade‑long sideline relationship into an explicit “AI‑first” operational phase, rolling Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI into the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS), scouting workflows, and club operations in a multiyear extension that...
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Microsoft and the National Football League have announced a multiyear extension of their partnership that moves the long-running Surface sponsorship into a new phase: deploying Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI across the sideline, scouting desks, and back-office operations to deliver real-time...
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Microsoft’s expanded partnership with the National Football League brings Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ devices to the sideline — a move that aims to put real-time game analytics, faster scouting, and workflow automation directly into the hands of coaches...
Microsoft has officially moved Copilot from a marketing talking point into the operational fabric of professional football: a multiyear extension with the NFL announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface Copilot+ devices, embeds Azure AI...
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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Microsoft has continued its rapid innovation with Copilot Studio through July 2025, unveiling a suite of powerful new features that cement its lead in enterprise conversational AI tools. July’s roundup brings advanced natural language understanding, deeper data integrations, significant admin...
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As organizations embark on their next wave of digital transformation, the strategic need to harmonize mainframe and IBM i legacy data with modern cloud platforms has shifted from a technical aspiration to an operational imperative. Most large enterprises, especially those in financial services...
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Cloud computing has become the de facto standard for modern enterprise IT infrastructure, and its resilience is vital to sustaining digital business operations. Azure, Microsoft’s global public cloud, serves some of the world’s largest organizations in sectors including finance, gaming, and...
A thriving, forward-looking metropolis is judged not only by its skyline or population growth but by its ability to harness its data for public good. For one major Canadian city, aspirations went far beyond business-as-usual. Motivated by the drive to maintain and enhance its global municipal...
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The rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise data management has entered a new phase with PingCAP's latest expanded collaboration with Microsoft Azure, a move designed to catalyze the adoption of distributed SQL technology across global enterprises. As organizations grapple with the need for...
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In an era marked by breakneck technological progress and unrelenting competition, the optimization of business processes has evolved from a convenient advantage into an absolute necessity for companies wishing to survive and thrive. As digital transformation touches every aspect of market...
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The expansion of Peloton’s cutting-edge Platform within Microsoft’s Indonesia Central cloud region offers a fascinating case study in the evolving landscape of energy data management solutions and cloud-based digital transformation for Southeast Asia. For global energy companies navigating a...
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In an era where data-driven decision-making underpins the strategic direction of most organizations, infrastructure choices can make or break digital transformation efforts. Cloud computing has ushered in a new age of possibility, yet the challenges of distributed data management, operational...
Based on the available sources, here is an overview of what Siemens and Microsoft are doing—and planning to do—with buildings:
Microsoft: Smart, Flexible, and Sustainable Buildings
Smart Workplace Orchestration with Microsoft Places
Microsoft is rolling out "Microsoft Places," a next-gen...
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PingCAP, a leading force in the distributed SQL database space and the driving power behind TiDB, has announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate distributed SQL adoption across the Azure ecosystem. This development represents not just the deepening of two...
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