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Bridging the gap between AI and medicine: Claude in Microsoft Foundry advances capabilities for healthcare and life sciences customers
These enhancements offer advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and model intelligence purpose built for some of the industry’s most demanding real-world use cases.
The era of ambient intelligence for cities
The best strategy for cities today is to begin to explore and experiment with the IoT—using vendors that you know and trust.
NYC Office of Emergency Management
The CityNext Team recently caught up with James McConnell, the Assistant Commissioner for Strategic Data at the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM), to ask a few questions about the agency’s new big data solution. Here’s what he had to say.
Digital policing evolves in a new era of cyber crime
The threat picture for law enforcement is changing rapidly – and in a borderless, constantly evolving society, new trends require new solutions to ensure the protection of citizens. At the first ever World Innovation Conference on The Future of Law Enforcement Information Management (WICLEIM 2014) , held last week in Amsterdam, global leaders gathered for multifaceted discussion on the future of law enforcement innovation and the paradigm shift happening across the industry.
New use cases for device and mobile retail: Preparing for the next wave
s the mobility and device revolution motivating or debilitating retailers in their quest to win consumer mindshare and walletshare? 2014 EKN analysis (n=131 retailers) reveals that on an average less than a third of retailers use some form of mobility and inter-operable devices that support sales, service and operations today.
The County of Los Angeles ensures cost savings, modernization and compliance with Office 365 deployment
The County of Los Angeles is moving 100,000 users to Microsoft’s cloud solution to better meet the needs of citizens and county employees.
Microsoft social listening delivers more for open source intelligence
Public safety officials hold a breadth of tremendous responsibility. From overseeing citywide events to responding to natural disasters to anticipating and responding to manmade threats, officials are constantly seeking innovative ways to get the information they need to protect their communities.
Climate change: Its your move
If any doubt remained, a spate of new reports makes it clear that climate change is real and our efforts to rein it in are falling short. In fact, a report released by a United Nations panel in April reveals that greenhouse gas emissions are growing faster than ever.
Enabling police on the front lines
Police investigations depend on data, and ensuring that the data is accurate and readily available to police in the field is a powerful way to make officers more productive and help them in ensuring the safety of our communities. Forces can no longer continually spend their IT budget on ‘keeping the lights on’, or delivering monolithic IT programmes.
Tap Into the Data Dividend to Compete In the Age of IoT
The technology marketplace is full of buzz today about big data and the Internet of Things, but the fact is, today’s more powerful sensors and devices, connected to back-end systems, analytics software and the cloud, are transforming industries, right now.
Enabling mobility and ensuring compliance for San Bernadino County Sheriff’s Department
San Bernadino County Sheriff's Department deploys Microsoft Office 365 for secure collaboration and better response to citizen needs.
Ensuring “Always on, no matter what” cloud reliability
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority deploys Office 365 for disaster preparedness.