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Microsoft helps customers digitally transform their businesses with cloud, AI and mixed reality, while also advancing the next frontier of computing
  Microsoft company logo. (PRNewsFoto / Microsoft Corp.)




   
ORLANDO, Fla., September 25, 2017 / PRNewswire / - Microsoft Corp. on Monday welcomed more than 25,000 business customers to its annual IT event, Microsoft Ignite, in Orlando, Florida, where the company showed how it is infusing cloud, AI (artificial intelligence) and mixed reality in their products to help clients visualize and create the future of the business. Microsoft also shared how quantum computers could help solve some of the biggest challenges on our planet. The news covered Microsoft's business businesses - Office 365, Windows 10, Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft AI - with a focus on how the company is helping people and organizations succeed in a rapidly evolving market, and allowing customers to use data, AI, hybrid and cloud technologies to evolve business processes and innovate for the future.

"Digital technology is impacting every aspect of our society and our economies, creating an unprecedented opportunity for organizations of all sizes," said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft. "I am an optimist and I am inspired by the ingenuity of clients, partners and developers everywhere, who are extending the frontiers of what is possible with mixed reality and artificial intelligence infused in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure, to transform and have an impact on the world. "

The next frontier of computing

After 12 years of investment in his vision to create a scalable computer based on quantum physics, Microsoft today announced the creation of a new optimized programming language to take advantage of scalable quantum computers and a deep integration of the programming language in Visual Studio, providing Debug developers and other advanced simulators that can run locally or in Microsoft Azure. The tools will be available for free by the end of the year. Developers can join today's Microsoft quantum community by signing up at www.microsoft.com/quantum.

Giving power to employees and fostering a new work culture

Microsoft also announced the expansion of Microsoft 365 with two new solutions to help front-line workers and education customers. The company also introduced new intelligent search capabilities, a vision for intelligent communications focused on Microsoft Teams, and improvements to security and IT management to help customers stay safe and comply with the rules, including compliance with the General Regulation. of Data Protection.

Microsoft 365 F1 brings together Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security to help the more than 2,000 million front-line workers who serve as the first point of contact between a company and its customers or directly involved in the development of products .
Microsoft 365 Education covers Office 365 for Education, Windows 10, Enterprise Mobility + Security and Minecraft: Education Edition. It gives students, teachers and teaching staff everything they need to create and collaborate safely.
Computers with Microsoft 365, including new commercial devices Windows 10 S of HP Inc., Lenovo, Acer and Fujitsu, starting at $ 275, offer a self-service implementation and a simplified management, always keeping updated, resulting in a low cost of total property for companies. These devices, designed for cloud-based identity and management, are ideal for front-line workers, students and educators.
Microsoft introduced a new vision for intelligent communications, including plans to bring Skype's capabilities for Online Businesses to Microsoft Teams, along with data and cognitive services, making Teams the true center for teamwork in Office 365 , including persistent chat, voice and video.
Smart search experiences use AI and machine learning to provide more relevant search results anywhere you search in Microsoft 365. Among the new experiences are Bing for commercial private advancement, which offers a unified view of personalized and contextual search results from the inside and outside of your organization.
New LinkedIn on Microsoft profile cards now offer the ability to view information on LinkedIn profiles in Microsoft applications and services. This new experience, which is now implemented for customers of the first launch in Outlook Web Access, SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, improves the way you collaborate and creates relationships offering insights about the people you work with, inside and outside your organization , from within Office 365.
HP Inc. and Lenovo will join Surface to support Windows AutoPilot by providing device IDs to companies on select orders as of January 2018. This allows users to easily configure a new device, complete with the company's configuration and applications ready to use, and eliminates the need for IT to touch the device or handle updates personally.
Microsoft 365 is providing enhanced Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) features such as enhanced anti-phishing capabilities; extended protection for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams; and integration between detection capabilities for identity threats in the company and in the cloud.
There is more information on solutions to the Microsoft Modern Work Center here.

Modernizing business processes with the cloud and AI

Microsoft expanded Dynamics 365 with new AI solutions that transform critical business situations and applications and services to help business users reinvent the processes they use every day.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 IA solutions are designed to address complex, high-value business situations that are adapted to existing processes, systems and data. The first solution contains an intelligent virtual agent for customer service, an intelligent assistant for customer service staff and conversation management tools, all activated by Microsoft AI. The Australian Government Department of Human Services, HP Inc., Macy's and Microsoft are already using this technology to improve overall customer satisfaction and handle more requests in less time.
Modular applications for Dynamics 365 to help customers quickly transform high-impact processes by integrating with existing systems and increasing them with workflow and ideas from Dynamics 365, LinkedIn and Office 365. The first two modular applications, Attract and Onboard, they will help companies to attract the most qualified candidates and guarantee their success with a personalized integration. Both will be available as part of Dynamics 365 for Talent this year.
Deeper integration between PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Office 365 and Dynamics 365. Now, any commercial user familiar with InfoPath forms, Access or SharePoint databases can create applications that extend and automate their business processes with PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.
There is more information on how companies can use these new technologies to improve business applications and processes here.

Advancing the business cloud

Microsoft Azure is driving new levels of organizational productivity, intelligent data-oriented experiences and in-depth business confidence, all through a single, consistent hybrid cloud approach across data, applications and infrastructure, both in the enterprise and in the cloud.

Azure Stack, shipped through OEM partners including Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo. An Azure extension, Azure Stack, is truly unique in the market, enabling consistency that allows organizations to create and deploy applications using exactly the same Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), tools and experiences as they would in the Azure cloud. .
Availability of SQL Server in Linux, Windows and Docker with the SQL Server 2017 GA. The SQL Server is the first database born in the cloud that is also available internally. The SQL Server 2017 brings the power of the SQL Server to Windows, Linux and Docker containers for the first time, allowing developers to create intelligent applications using their preferred language and environments to increase productivity, along with high levels of performance and security. data.
The fully automated Database Migration Service and Managed Instance SQL DB is now available to clients to easily upload and change their SQL Server databases in their companies to an Azure SQL database.
SQL Data Warehouse offers a new level of optimized performance for computing, which significantly improves the performance of analytics in the cloud. This new level of performance optimized for computing also increases its scale much more than before, up to 30,000 Computerized Data Storage Units. An advance will be available in the fall.
Hybrid Azure Benefit for SQL Server will allow customers to maximize existing investments in discounted discount licenses, further extending the promise of hybrid technology in our customers' data investments.
Azure Cost Management services by Cloudyn will help manage and optimize the cost in the cloud through a unique and unified vision in multiple cloud environments. Customers and partners can use the service at no cost to manage their expenses with Azure.
Azure Security Center will bring new integrated security capabilities focused on reducing vulnerability and increasing protection against threats, as well as extending to secure hybrid tasks.
Advancing new updates to Azure's Machine Learning will offer data scientists and AI developers a new set of tools to develop and manage AI and machine learning models anywhere: in the cloud, at the company's headquarters or In the limit. These new updates will also make AI developers and data scientists more productive by using the most popular open source structures, runtimes, and tools.
Integration of Azure CosmosDB and Azure Functions. By bringing the power of Azure CosmosDB, our modern, internationally distributed database service, the first of its kind, to our serverless offering, Azure Functions, developers can reach new levels of productivity, writing applications with just a few lines of code , so that they can innovate more quickly to react to "events" such as IoT sensors, database changes and more.
Updates to Microsoft Cognoscitivos Services, a collection of intelligent APIs that allows developers to easily add AI capabilities to their applications. Today's updates include the general availability of text analytics, a cloud-based service for language processing, such as sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, and text language detection. Next month, Bing Custom Search, an individualized search experience for a section of the Web, and Bing Search v7, which will provide more relevant results using Bing Web, news, video, image search, as well as a new version of autosuggestion and spell checker.
There is more information about Microsoft cloud business solutions here.

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