3 top areas for cloud investment
As governments worldwide become cloud-first environments, they’re wondering where to place their bets for fastest impact. Here are the top three areas.
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Bridging the gap between AI and medicine: Claude in Microsoft Foundry advances capabilities for healthcare and life sciences customers
We’re excited to announce that Anthropic has added new tools, connectors, and skills that allow Claude in Microsoft Foundry to bring advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and model intelligence purpose built for healthcare and life sciences industries.
The future of retail for small business
Microsoft participated in the National Retail Federation Big Show in New York, where we showed what the future of retail will look like and highlighted how customers like GameStop and Hardee’s are creating better shopping experiences through the use of technology.
Microsoft Latin America Streamlines Sales Tracking with Dynamic Dashboard Solution
The Latin America marketing team for Microsoft Office implemented a dynamic dashboard solution to visualize sales performance from a variety of perspectives. Built on Microsoft Visio Professional 2013, the solution combines data from multiple sources and publishes visualizations of it through Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.
Improve Customer Interactions and Security with Modern Points of Sale
New POS devices provide a more personalized and secure shopping experience, allowing retailers to be mobile or stationary at the POS, make tailored offers to customers while they’re checking out, and meet new security requirements.
Microsoft driving innovation in Retail
One of the challenges in retail is to create an in-store experience that engages customers in unique ways, entices them to come in to stores, and keep them coming back. Creating those connections creates better experiences and ultimately increases sales.
Microsoft Dynamics: Empowering Retailers to Engage with their Customers
Retailers need to ask whether or not these latest marketing innovations are addressing what they really need.
Windows helps retailers to transform the customer shopping experience
Learn how several global retail brands are improving engagement with their customers to help grow sales, increase customer satisfaction and bring more efficiency to their business processes.
2015: The year of on-demand, personalized shopping
At Microsoft, we believe this will be the year when modern shopping experiences come to life. Where retailers create instant, personalized experiences for shoppers on their smartphone, online and in stores.
Creating connections with IOT
Over the past 12 months, the internet of things (IoT) has taken center stage for businesses in every industry, and retail is no exception. Retailers are starting with their own things – their existing data, devices and services – and transforming everything from the supply chain through to the customer experience. And by doing so, they’re opening up new revenue streams and realizing greater business impact.
Mobile + In-Store Experience: Better Together
A seamless customer experience is crucial in retail. Today, retail stores are full of diverse technologies waiting for consumers to access them.
The cloud – not a trend but an enabler of 2015 city tech trends
What better way to begin 2015 than to look at the top 10 technology forecast for local governments.
Enabling a continuous and seamless auto buying experience
I was fortunate to be invited by one of our customers to discuss what it means to enable great auto buying experiences while walking around – and climbing over – the new structure for a brand new auto dealership property being constructed here in Seattle.