8 innovations for financial services from Build 2020
At our recent Microsoft Build 2020 conference, we celebrated the critical role of developers and their tireless efforts to rally during this time of crisis.
Microsoft Industry Blogs
Explore:
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.
After Envision: business resiliency in financial services
Over these last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of hosting our first digital Microsoft Envision Forum for Financial Services series. We began the journey from an in-person, New York City event to pivoting to a purely-digital format leveraging Microsoft Teams—our focus intent on providing insight from leaders in the financial services industry.
Community support through greater access to mental health services
Mental health is a relevant topic now more than ever. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people is affected by a mental health condition at some point in their life. Mental health disorders are among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.
Navigating COVID-19: Best bets for Retailers facing tough choices
Positioning to win, today and tomorrow The overnight shift to a digital economy is driving retailers to make difficult decisions about how they adapt. It’s digital transformation at an unprecedented velocity. To cope with change, industry experts are encouraging retailers to look to the next horizon of retail and reimagine their business.
Create fan connections and win with the Media and Communications Accelerator
Media and entertainment organizations worldwide are planning for new digital offerings and the reopening of traditional channels and venues significantly impacted by social distancing and other restrictions. With their characteristic sense of purpose, media and entertainment organizations are expanding and deepening consumer engagement to unlock value through personalized content and innovative digital experiences based on comprehensive data-driven insights on media interactions, consumption patterns, social sentiment, purchase history, and known interests.
Microsoft, MediaKind, and others help film festival play on
Over the last few months, perhaps no sector of the media and entertainment industry has been more impacted than traditional events and festivals held at theaters and other venues closed by social distancing requirements and other restrictions.
Announcing the Microsoft Media and Entertainment Summit
Today marks the launch of the Microsoft Media and Entertainment Summit, a virtual event with over 30 on-demand sessions hosted by industry experts in content creation and production, content delivery, collaboration and productivity, and audience insights. The Summit is free and available to everyone. All that’s required is a quick registration, and you’re in.
The coming wave of retail returns
Entering 2020, the retail world was already dealing with tremendous growth in merchandise returns, with fraud and overall costs to the retailer increasing at an exponential rate due to the growth of online sales. In 2015 the total value of merchandise returns was estimated at $643 billion globally.
How healthcare partners are using IoT to adapt with agility
The urgent and widespread impact of the global health pandemic is shining a light on the healthcare industry and the critical need for continued, rapid transformation. In response, Microsoft partners are applying advanced technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to create solutions that are enabling healthcare workers to deliver quality care to more people while keeping patients and providers safer.
Microsoft announces official Cloud Computing Sponsor Indy Autonomous Challenge
Announcing Microsoft as the official Cloud Computing Sponsor of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC). The IAC is a $1.5 million prize competition among universities to program autonomous-modified Dallara IL-15 racecars.
4 common challenges governments face in a time of crisis
Recent global events have shown that digital technology and data have become indispensable tools for governments as they adapt to changes across their organizations. Many government leaders are taking stock and imagining a future with the most attentive, helpful citizen services.
Congratulations to our 2020 Health Innovation Award winners
For 17 years, Microsoft has honored innovations that advance the health industry. The 2020 Health Innovation Awards continue this tradition, with Microsoft customers and partners deploying solutions that deliver better experiences, insights, and care. Today more than ever, these powerful capabilities are needed by health organizations and professionals to enable personalized care, empower care teams, and improve operational outcomes.