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Drive efficiency through automation and AI with the Microsoft Cloud

This year at Microsoft Ignite we explore how organizations can activate AI and automation directly in their business workflows and empower developers to use those same intelligent building blocks to deliver their own differentiated experiences.

The global pandemic has created unprecedented levels of uncertainty, as well as the need to sense and reshape our physical and digital environments, sometimes in completely new ways. Leaders across industries recognize innovation as the only path forward. Critically, we’ve seen a shift from “innovation for innovation’s sake” toward a desire to lower operating costs, anticipate trends, reduce carbon footprints, and improve customer and employee experiences. We’re calling this commitment to innovation “digital perseverance.”

Do more with less with the Microsoft Cloud

Automation and AI are key ingredients for digital perseverance and helping organizations drive efficiency. Komatsu Australia, for example, a leading industrial equipment manufacturer, used Power Automate and AI Builder to automate over 1,000 invoices annually and realize an efficiency gain of 300 hours per year—and that was just for one supplier. These capabilities also improve employee engagement. Of those surveyed in a recent Microsoft study, the use of no-code or low-code platforms or apps is shown to have led to an 83 percent positive impact on work satisfaction. When people are freed from tedious, low-value tasks and feel empowered to contribute their best work, everyone wins.

Organizations are also using AI and automation to reinvent their businesses to stand out from competitors and drive growth. In a recent survey, of respondents investing in AI, 47 percent indicated the main driver was to create new products or services, while only 43 percent indicated the main driver was to improve existing products and services.1 With the Microsoft Cloud, technical and non-technical roles can access leading AI and automation capabilities directly in their flow of work to be more productive. For example, Fashable, a technology startup in Portugal, is using Azure Machine Learning to reduce “fast fashion” waste by forecasting customer interest in computer-generated fashion designs before ever touching a sewing machine. Another great example is Investec, a global financial services company, which uses conversation intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales to help their sellers be more productive on sales calls, follow up quickly, and preserve valuable customer information, which raises the bar in the sales journey and drives growth.

Automation and AI everywhere and for everyone

We believe everyone should have access to these transformative technologies, so we’re infusing AI and automation throughout the Microsoft Cloud, from Viva Sales to Power Platform and Azure AI. This means customers can leverage the skills and resources they already have and confidently combine platforms as needed, all while building on a secure, flexible, and integrated foundation within the Microsoft Cloud.

Drive seller productivity and deeper customer engagement with Dynamics 365 and Viva Sales

We are infusing automation and AI into Dynamics 365 to help professionals focus on what matters most—creating great customer experiences. Microsoft Viva Sales, a seller experience application now generally available, captures customer and deal insights from Microsoft 365 and Teams and populates it within any customer relationship management (CRM) system, eliminating manual data entry and freeing time to focus on selling. Today, we are announcing that conversation intelligence capabilities will be available to all Dynamics 365 Sales and Viva Sales customers at no additional cost. With conversation intelligence, AI guides sales conversations in real time by recommending talking points and sales literature to share with the customer. In addition, sellers receive insights on customer emails within Outlook, which can be updated directly in their CRM.

Read our Dynamics 365 blog and watch the breakout session for more announcements and information.

Empower people and automate processes with Microsoft Syntex

Content is everywhere, in the form of videos, audio files, documents, and more. Microsoft research estimates organizations spend nearly $46 billion a year storing and managing content while netting countless hours of manual processing. Content AI transforms how this content is created, processed, and discovered to turn content from a cost into an advantage.

We’re excited to introduce Microsoft Syntex: Content AI integrated in the flow of work. It integrates innovations across the Microsoft Cloud, from Microsoft 365 to Azure, to Power Platform and Microsoft Purview. Syntex automatically reads, tags, and indexes high volumes of content and connects it where it’s needed in context—in search, in applications, and as reusable knowledge. It puts people at the center, with content integrated into collaboration and workflows like eSignature. Customers like TaylorMade Golf Company, a global golf equipment provider, are using Syntex to empower their people and automate workflows at scale.

Read our Microsoft 365 blog and watch the breakout session for more information.

Improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive processes with Power Platform

Low-code enables people and organizations to punch above their weight in IT resources, doing more and at a lower cost, and when it comes to revolutionizing day-to-day processes, there’s nothing quite like Power Platform. Power Platform makes it easy for anyone to build apps and webpages, automate workflows, create virtual agents, and analyze data. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re excited to share new innovations that make AI and low-code more intuitive for users of all skill levels.

Building on the success of GitHub Copilot, we’re bringing natural language capabilities to Power Automate with description to cloud flows. Now, a maker only needs to describe in natural language the flow they want to build and a suggestion of relevant flows is generated—the maker then adds connections to finalize their flow. It’s that easy. In AI Builder, feedback loop gives you the ability to flag and retrain documents for higher accuracy, and there is now additional support for unstructured data and text recognition to identify 164 languages.

Read our Power Platform blog and watch the breakout session for more announcement and information.

Quickly and easily embed AI into business apps with Azure Applied AI and Cognitive Services

Azure Applied AI Services and Azure Cognitive Services provide developers with pre-built and customizable models to quickly deploy intelligent applications. While AI adoption increased overall during the pandemic, it particularly accelerated use cases like document processing for H&R Block, knowledge mining for Beiersdorf, and natural language understanding in sales and service scenarios for Progressive Insurance. These companies are using Azure AI services to remove friction in business-critical processes to help end-users and employees focus their time and energy on valuable work.

Now customers can use a new pre-built model for contracts in the Azure Form Recognizer Studio to extract entities such as parties and payment terms for downstream processing. Azure OpenAI Service, available in preview, now offers access to DALL·E 2 by invitation. Azure Cognitive Service for Language now offers expanded summarization, contact center capabilities, language support, and Language Studio enhancements.

For more information, please visit the Microsoft AI blog and TechCommunity blog.

Build and deploy responsible machine learning models faster to enhance productivity at any scale with Azure Machine Learning

For organizations building custom predictive models, Azure Machine Learning provides a powerful, unified machine learning platform to help teams get models into production more quickly. To enhance collaboration, we’re excited to announce Azure Machine Learning registries, enabling teams to share registries at the tenant and organization level for greater repeatability and scale. To help customers do more with less, we’ve also consolidated open source tools within the Responsible AI Dashboard, now generally available, for easier debugging directly within a data scientist’s workflow. Finally, we’re helping organizations build with the frameworks they already know and love. Our latest release for Azure Container for PyTorch enables teams to optimize training for PyTorch models directly within the Azure Machine Learning Studio or SDK.

Visit the TechCommunity blog and watch the breakout session for more information and announcements.

Drive the next level of insights, efficiency, and sustainability with the industrial metaverse

When you think about how data, automation, and AI can combine to make a real impact, one of the most compelling scenarios is in the industrial metaverse. One example is how Bosch built their industrial metaverse with different users’ needs in mind.

Bosch is reducing complexity on their factory floors by using the Internet of Things (IoT) and Azure Digital Twins to optimize predictive maintenance. Their machines trigger an alert when there’s an issue and before something breaks down. The alerts are automatically routed through Microsoft Teams—for simple issues—or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service, when a service ticket is needed. And all the data from this system feeds back into itself, continuously improving Bosch’s predictive maintenance models over time. By combining platforms, Bosch empowers everyone from their frontline workers, to operations managers, and data scientists to contribute their expertise and deliver greater efficiency. That’s the kind of disruption that makes Bosch a leader in the manufacturing industry.

To learn more about how Microsoft is helping customers build their industrial metaverse, watch the keynote by Judson Althoff and the breakout session with CBRE.

Digital perseverance is inclusive and responsible

Digital perseverance allows organizations to thrive despite uncertainty by harnessing digital technology to achieve their business goals and do more with less. Microsoft provides an unmatched foundation for this, combining leading platforms for CRM, Robotic Process Automation, and Cloud AI Developer Services, among others. We’re also committed to the advancement of AI that’s driven by principles that put people first, enabling our customers and partners to innovate responsibly for the future of work. By democratizing leading and responsible innovation across the Microsoft Cloud, we’re helping customers get the most out of their technology stack and ensuring everyone from the frontline to the back office can contribute their best work.

Learn more about Azure and AI at Microsoft Ignite

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1Gartner: Forecast Analysis: Artificial Intelligence Software, Worldwide, By Analyst(s): Alys Woodward, Anna Griffen, Alan Priestley, Jim Hare, Eric Hunter, Kevin Quinn, October 20, 2021

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How Microsoft Azure helps drive agility and optimization for your business

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite! I’m incredibly inspired by this global community and how you’ve navigated your organizations through significant changes over the past few years.

In a world where business leaders are feeling the pressure to do more with less, organizations of all sizes and industries are increasingly embracing cloud technologies as the path toward digital and business resilience.

I've had the opportunity to speak with our customers about their business needs and the challenges they’re facing. Customers, we hear you, and that's what this year's Microsoft Ignite is all about—empowering you through cloud technology so you can focus on what your organization does best—create, innovate, and differentiate.

We aim to be the world’s computer and most trusted cloud partner for all workloads. No matter where you are on your cloud journey, we have the expertise, capabilities, and platform to help increase agility, optimize technology investments, and create data-driven experiences. To that end, we’re announcing several new developments to help our customers optimize their resources and get the most out of their existing investments.

Performance, scale, mission-critical capabilities: Azure delivers to keep your business efficient and resilient

As our customers continue to embrace digital capabilities with strong cloud fundamentals, the “how” of cloud migration is top of mind, especially for mission-critical workloads.

We work closely with the technology vendors you have traditionally relied upon to run all your workloads and ensure Azure is ready for you to modernize your on-premises applications. We’re announcing several new capabilities to support this:

Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure is now available for easy extension or migration of your existing on-premises Nutanix workloads and a consistent environment with no need to modify or retool.
Updates to Azure VMware Solution (AVS): Beginning today, this native VMware environment previews stretched clusters, providing 99.99 percent uptime for mission-critical applications requiring the highest availability, and Customer Managed Keys for maximum control over access to encrypted data.
The collaborative SAP ERP is now in preview and increases user productivity and focus by integrating workflows across SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Office for close collaboration without application or context switching.
Updates to Azure Center for SAP solutions, an end-to-end deployment and management experience running SAP on Azure, now previews support for registering Windows-based systems and installing SAP S/4HANA 2020/2021, while providing cost transparency through integration with the cost analysis feature and even more quality checks.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a great example of an organization that chose to migrate its SAP solutions and other resources to Microsoft Azure to improve operations and boost fan engagement. Azure enabled them to spend less time managing technology and focus more on generating fan-centric experiences that bring together business, game, and fan data to enhance the way people can enjoy interacting with the NBA.

We know that optimizing investments frees up the resources you need to build the experiences that are most meaningful for your customers.

We’re pleased to announce several advancements to deliver new levels of price performance, mission-critical capabilities, and security—while increasing efficiency and ensuring your business stays resilient, including:

The expansion of the Azure Disk Storage portfolio with the general availability of Premium SSD v2 for greater flexibility when managing performance and costs.
We are investing to help you modernize your infrastructure, from the ground up by taking a system-level approach. We recently introduced new Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service that feature Ampere Altra Arm–based processors and deliver excellent price performance when running scale-out Linux workloads.
Azure Elastic SAN, a new cloud-native, fully managed, and massively scalable storage area network service—only available through Azure.
New foundational Azure confidential computing service to help protect data in use, and the addition of confidential computing capabilities to services like Azure Virtual Desktop and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

Delivering data-driven experiences that give you more time and value

We continue to enhance the way Microsoft Azure integrates across infrastructure and data services so you can keep your business efficient and resilient.

In May, we launched the Microsoft Intelligent Data platform, integrating our best-in-class database, analytics, and data governance products for a seamless experience.

Today’s announcements empower our customers to do more with less, add layers of intelligence to applications, unlock predictive insights, and govern data anywhere.

Developers can build on their terms with the new innovation in cloud-native distributed data and open-source. Azure Cosmos DB is expanding beyond NoSQL to support distributed PostgreSQL, bringing everything developers love about PostgreSQL to Azure Cosmos DB.
General availability of the SAP Change Capture Data Connector in Azure Data Factory enables customers to bring in SAP data for advanced analytics. Azure Data Factory’s new Microsoft Graph Data Connector for Microsoft 365 datasets transports your office data into Azure, so you can unlock collaboration and productivity insights. We’re also continuing to remove friction from end-user experiences, allowing you to share your Power BI datasets across tenants through Power BI B2B data sharing.
Microsoft Purview combines unified data governance with risk and compliance solutions. Business Workflows, now generally available, and Business Metamodel, now in preview, make it easier to maximize the business value of your data and drive cross-functional data governance.

And, our new Partner Ecosystem, enables ISVs to build on top of the open and governed Microsoft Intelligent Data platform, delivering an enriched, cost-optimized experiences for customers across all industries.

Transform your business with Azure, anywhere

We want you to be able to stay agile and flexible when extending Azure to your on-premises, multicloud, and edge environments. We meet you where you are, so you can blend your own enterprise and operational edge investments with Azure’s global infrastructure to leverage the best Azure has to offer—on your own terms.

With Azure Arc, we built a bridge that extends the Azure platform so our customers can build cloud-native applications and services with the flexibility to run them across their existing datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments.

For example, Wells Fargo turned to Azure Arc to streamline a scalable compute platform across on-premises and cloud environments. And to get that same fully managed, cloud-native experience, they are extending Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to their own datacenters. This offers the flexibility to adapt to ever-changing regulations and compliance requirements by running AKS wherever it’s needed. In turn, they’re able to bring new products and services to market faster and delight their customers.

I’m pleased to announce new Azure Arc capabilities to save you money and enable further innovation.

Expansion of the Azure Hybrid Benefit to include AKS so you can deploy the Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI or Windows Server in your own datacenters or edge environments at no additional cost. This ensures a consistent, managed Kubernetes experience from cloud to edge for both Windows and Linux containers.
Azure Automanage is now generally available for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers. Within minutes, you can automatically configure servers to best-practice Azure services with a simple "point, click, set, forget" experience—whether they run Windows, Linux, or are already located in Azure, on-premises, or even in other clouds.

Do more with less: migrate, optimize, reinvest

We’re focused on finding ways to help you save and get maximum value out of your cloud investments, wherever your business might be in its journey.

We already have pricing benefits and offers, like Azure Hybrid Benefit, to help you achieve savings while adopting and operating in Azure. We also understand you may need additional help to ensure workloads remain secure and protected with hybrid flexibility as you move.

At Microsoft Ignite we’re announcing enhancements and benefits to make this even easier.

Our flagship Azure Migration and Modernization program (AMMP) now helps you plan and deploy cloud security services as you migrate, including support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel. You can also take advantage of Azure innovation across hybrid environments with Azure Arc deployment support for workloads that need to remain on-premises.
A new Azure savings plan for compute allows you to save up to 65 percent on select compute services compared to pay-as-you-go prices.1

If you’re further along in the journey to cloud, you need to optimize what you’ve already invested. Tools like Microsoft Cost Management and Azure Advisor help you better manage and understand your cloud spend with best practice guidance and personalized insights.

We want you to be able to take these cloud savings and reinvest them into critical areas like crisis management, security, and intelligent cloud-native solutions that help your business stay resilient, grow, and create new value.

You can read more about how we’re investing in Azure to help you do more with less and there’s a great breakout session this week that will help you bring it all together for your business.

Our commitment to you

Whether you’re getting started with migration, ready to optimize existing investments, or looking to reinvest your savings and keep innovation with cloud-native technologies, we’re here to help you make it happen.

Our commitment is to be the cloud partner you can trust along your entire cloud journey, helping you build agility, optimize your business, and create data-driven experiences.

On behalf of the entire Azure team here at Microsoft, thanks for letting us be that partner for you. However you’re experiencing the Microsoft Ignite sessions this week—from the home office, gathered in Seattle, or around the world—we hope you enjoy the event!

Learn more about Azure at Microsoft Ignite this year

Watch Microsoft Ignite session topics featured in this blog.
View the Microsoft Ignite session on how to do more with less.
Start building skills with Microsoft Learn collections.
Explore all Microsoft Ignite announcements on the Azure blog.
View Microsoft Ignite sessions on how to Deliver efficiency with automation + AI.
View Microsoft Ignite sessions on how to Innovate with a cloud developer platform.
Discover how we’re building for the future with Microsoft Industry Cloud news and updates.

 

 

1Customers may see savings estimated to be between 11 percent and 65 percent. The 65 percent savings is based on one M64dsv2 Azure Virtual Machines for CentOS or Ubuntu Linux in the East US region running for 36 months at a pay-as-you-go rate vs. a reduced rate for a 3-year savings plan. Based on Azure pricing as of October 2022. Prices subject to change. Actual savings may vary based on location, instance type, or usage.
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Modernize with Microsoft Cloud, the most complete developer platform

Developers are essential to the world we live in, and the work you do is critical to the success of organizations in every industry. Microsoft empowers innovators like you on your unique journey. With an end-to-end cloud platform, Microsoft Cloud lets you quickly and easily innovate and create a secure foundation for all your applications.

At Microsoft Ignite, we explore how to increase productivity and flexibility with Azure’s cloud-native solutions and low-code app development enables you to iterate quickly and go to market faster—and how to access the most comprehensive set of tools for development at Microsoft. There’s so much we can learn from each other on this journey, let’s dive into the key topics, announcements, and trends you’ll leave with after Microsoft Ignite.

Accelerate innovation with the most complete cloud developer platform

The Microsoft Cloud is a comprehensive platform that enables developers to build incredible solutions. At the core of the Microsoft Cloud is Azure, the underlying infrastructure that enables you to build anything you can imagine. Using Azure DevOps and Azure Kubernetes Service, Ernst and Young Global Limited (EY) has built more agile practices and shifted into a rolling product-delivery approach of software and services. They have been able to develop and deploy solutions faster and with more confidence across a wide range of environments.

We are committed to helping you do more with less. With the Microsoft Cloud toolbox filled with Visual Studio, Azure, GitHub, and Power Platform, you can build reliable, scalable, and high-performance cloud-native applications.

Surging demand for digital solutions and an increasing shortage of technical skills is forcing organizations to adapt their IT development strategies. By empowering everyone to contribute to development processes, IT can multiply technical capacity, accelerate development cost-effectively, and innovate with the business. Adopting the world’s most complete set of integrated low-code development tools means organizations can modernize operations at scale, differentiate services and experiences, and accelerate their journey to the cloud in a secure, governable, and cost-effective way.

During Microsoft Ignite, I’m excited to share some news and updates designed to address these needs and improve the overall developer and maker experience even further with our beloved tools and Microsoft Cloud platform—all designed to help you quickly code and ship from anywhere with confidence.

Increasing productivity and quality for hybrid development teams

Microsoft’s developer cloud is purpose-built to support teams through the entire software development lifecycle. Azure provides the cloud infrastructure that quickly builds a robust, resilient application that scales and is easy to maintain and operate.

I am happy to announce Azure Deployment Environments is available for preview.

Microsoft Dev Box and Azure Deployment Environments pair together to give developers a complete cloud-powered workflow for any project that can be fully managed by IT admins.
Dev Box offers developers high-performance, cloud-based workstations that help get you coding quickly.
Azure Deployment Environments enables teams to spin up the infrastructure needed to run their project in the cloud quickly and on demand.
Azure Load Testing helps teams test and meet scale and performance goals with confidence.

I am excited to announce the preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps.

Which brings GitHub’s industry-leading, developer-focused security tooling to Azure DevOps.
GitHub streamlines our workflows and processes through better collaboration and automation.
GitHub Advanced Security provides a native application security solution within our development workflow, enabling the management of open-source dependencies, custom code, and secrets across the software lifecycle.

Drive application innovation and modernization at scale with cloud-native architectures

Cloud-native apps can deliver new levels of scale and performance and provide even greater reliability. Using cloud-native design patterns helps achieve the agility, efficiency, and speed of innovation that organizations need to deliver value to end users. Azure Kubernetes Service enables developers to take full advantage of the Kubernetes ecosystem and scale cloud-native applications. For example, the Forza team utilized autoscaling Azure Kubernetes Service during the launch of Forza Horizon 5 to meet the challenging performance demand of 10 million concurrent players at launch—the biggest first week in Xbox Game Studios history.

The goal of using cloud-native technologies is to abstract the infrastructure from developers, freeing them to focus on building more cloud-optimized applications. Today, I’m proud to announce Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager preview, which allows you to easily manage fleets of Kubernetes clusters, run multi-cluster workloads and services, and ensure consistent configuration, access, and governance across your Kubernetes environment.

How modernizing enterprise applications enables you to do more with less

Azure’s fully managed application platform service offerings such as Azure App Service and Azure Spring Cloud are uniquely differentiated for .NET and Java customers in that they enable customers to modernize applications with minimal code changes and increased developer velocity. With Azure application platform services, you offload the management of the underlying cloud infrastructure to Azure, which allows you and your developers to focus on app innovation rather than managing, configuring, securing, and updating the underlying infrastructure (because Azure does that for you). This helps streamline costs by modernizing your apps using readily available skills. Further, generates trust and customer loyalty thanks to industry-leading platform security from Azure, which is built right into the platform. Easily integrate your internal and external stakeholders in the modernization journey and get maximum scale without having to worry about over-provisioning or under-provisioning resources. With Azure App Service and other Azure application platform services, you can innovate more and build more value for your business.

One example of a customer taking advantage of Azure’s managed services and serverless compute options is COFCO International, China’s largest food and agricultural business corporation. COFCO International utilized Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions to create new solutions for application integration, data aggregation and reporting, and data governance, which has enabled them to make decisions faster and provide better visibility with improved analytics capabilities.

Streamline low-code governance in your organization

With Power Platform, Microsoft provides a central low-code platform that allows makers to enjoy shared components and common building blocks, allowing organizations to bring low-code assets into a central framework and give IT the visibility to govern centrally at scale. Power Platform runs on top of Azure and benefits from the strengths of Azure’s security, advanced management capabilities, and rich set of industry-specific certifications.

Power Platform enables IT to gain visibility and control over applications at scale with Managed Environments, now generally available. Managed Environments is a brand-new capability to streamline and simplify governance at scale. It gives you more control with sharing limits, security and reliability validations, and the ability to customize the maker onboarding experience.

Power Pages: low-code web development

Power Pages is now generally available. Power Pages is an enterprise-grade connectivity platform for organizations to build and launch external self-service websites. The Power Pages platform allows them to connect with their customers, partners, and communities and share business data, collaborate, and automate business processes with them at scale and securely. Learn more about building secure business websites.

Low-code is a critical tool for skilling today’s workforce

Power Platform has empowered millions of people to do more with less and build mission-critical apps for their businesses. Now with the new Power Up program, people without development backgrounds can transform their careers through a guided training program and community. The Power Up upskilling program provides training, offers certification, and recognizes people who excel.

There are so many new and exciting capabilities to experience and dive into at Microsoft Ignite. You can learn more about these announcements and how Microsoft is committed to delivering the best development experience at the session Accelerate innovation with the world's most complete cloud developer platform. Join us throughout the entire event for breakout sessions, demos, opportunities to connect with experts, learning experiences, and much more.

Thank you, and enjoy Microsoft Ignite!

Learn more about Azure at Microsoft Ignite

Watch Microsoft Ignite session topics featured in this blog.
Start building skills with Microsoft Learn collections.
Explore Microsoft Ignite announcements on the Azure blog.
Attend an Azure Virtual Training Day to continue learning.

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