New Azure features and functionality for April 2021
Just in case you've missed something, we've collected all of the Azure updates from last month in one place.
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Introducing the AI innovators selected for the Agentic Launchpad
Microsoft, in collaboration with NVIDIA and WeTransact, has announced the 13 pioneering software companies selected for the 2025 Agentic Launchpad. Read about their AI-powered innovation and how their groundbreaking ideas are helping transform industry.
Resources for starting your accessibility journey
More than 1 billion people around the world live with a disability. We’ve gathered new resources and insights below to help you on your accessibility journey, so we can continue to make our tools and practices more accessible for all.
How to power up your data strategy to build innovation
Discover how to build a data strategy for innovation by connecting your organisational silos and the right culture, technology, tools.
Microsoft Build returns May 25-27!
Microsoft's huge developer conference, Microsoft Build, is back once again! Kicking off next month on May 25-27, it'll be delivering the same high-quality sessions and keynotes from familiar faces at Microsoft, all at no cost to attendees.
How the cloud drives innovation, agility and resilience
Discover how the cloud can help the financial service industry innovate and stay agile and resilient while meeting regulatory compliance.
5 ways to build a sustainability strategy to improve customer experience
Discover the five most important points organisations need to consider when building a sustainability strategy.
Creating a Metadata-Driven Processing Framework For Azure Data Factory
This open source code project delivers a simple metadata driven processing framework for Azure Data Factory and/or Azure Synapse Analytics (Intergate Pipelines).
How the public sector can streamline operations and innovate with intelligent automation
Discover how intelligent automation can help the public sector respond to new challenges, empower employee and deliver services to citizens.
Using Power BI and Logic Apps to analyse social media streams
There are numerous technologies that can be utilised to stream, analyse and visualise tweets on Azure, including traditional Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Storm, No SQL DBs and more. However, there are also a number of PAAS services that can be utilised to achieve the same result, with much less coding, configuration and setup effort and improved maintenance and HA/DR capabilities.
How you can use Azure Translator to batch translate your documents
In this article we will go through the requirement, challenges, and solution to automatically batch translate documents (HTML/TXT/Word) from any source language to any output language, while maintaining the structure and formatting of the source documents.
4 Insights for Women and Girls getting into Tech
To celebrate International Women's Day, we brought together a panel of female technical experts to share their inspirational career journeys and guidance for anyone starting or building their career in a technical role.
Closing the loop on sustainable supply chains in retail
Sustainability is a new driving force to judge a retailers ultimate performance. Discover how to build sustainable supply chains by breaking down siloes and using technology.