For organizations wrestling with where to place scarce IT dollars in the new fiscal year, a striking message is emerging: modernizing endpoint hardware to support on-device AI — the class of machines Microsoft brands as Copilot+ PCs or AI PCs — can materially change the economics of AI adoption...
Microsoft’s Copilot cannot be judged by prompts alone; what matters to finance, IT, and users is measurable impact — fewer minutes spent on email, fewer unnecessary meetings, faster document cycles, and demonstrable reductions in governance risk — and the 90‑day playbook framework reframes...
The headline number is brutal: a widely reported MIT analysis finds that roughly 95% of organizations report no measurable business return from their generative AI (GenAI) investments, while only about 5% of custom AI pilots make the leap from demo to production at scale. That gulf isn’t a model...
AI has moved from theory to practice in boardrooms and back offices alike, and Microsoft 365 Copilot is front and centre of that shift — but turning potential into measurable productivity requires more than licences: it demands strategy, sponsorship, roles, training and guardrails, a point...
Microsoft Teams is no longer just a meeting and chat app — it has become a strategic collaboration platform that can deliver measurable ROI, but only when adoption is managed as continuous change rather than a one‑time IT rollout. The latest industry playbook stresses measurable pilots...
A recent Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated via a press release and republished across PR channels — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability for many enterprise AI...
A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
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A new Principled Technologies (PT) study—distributed as a press release via EIN Presswire and reported on partner channels—claims that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost for enterprise AI projects...
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Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...
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Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
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Bauducco’s decision to adopt Microsoft Copilot — implemented through a strategic engagement with Cloud Target — marks a pragmatic, metrics‑driven push to modernize business processes across HR, finance and IT while explicitly measuring the financial impact of AI adoption with a purpose‑built...
Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...
Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...
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The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...
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Microsoft’s Copilot pilot in the UK, OpenAI’s decision to roll ChatGPT Projects out to free users, fresh industry moves in payments and insurance CRMs, and another wave of automation in contact centres together paint a clear — if messy — picture: generative AI is delivering real value in...
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The debate Kepler Cheuvreux set out in its note—“Is AI truly a boon for the entire IT industry, or could it also be a curse?”—captures a growing fault line across technology markets: enormous, record-breaking infrastructure and R&D spending is colliding with an unsettled monetization pathway and...
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Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...
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Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...
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When a headline promises a human-centred revolution — "Reimagining the Human Element: How Sarala Nishank Pathi Is Revolutionizing HR with AI and Cloud Intelligence" — readers expect a clear trail of evidence: projects, customers, timelines, technical details and measurable outcomes. The original...
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