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5 keys to the frictionless store of tomorrow
The objective of frictionless shopping, frictionless checkout, and autonomous stores is to improve the customer experience and increase convenience. Any of us can put ourselves in the shoes of a shopper and think about how nice it would be to never have to wait in line to give someone our money. I get that.
Maximize first-party data with Microsoft Cloud for Retail
While most everyone politely accepted the role the industry webinar played these past 24 months, last month Shoptalk gathered nearly 10,000 retail luminaries live and in-person in Las Vegas. The event was held from March 27 to March 30, 2022, at Mandalay Bay for the industry’s biggest reunion yet.
Supporting customers in their cloud journey: Ongoing change requires ongoing partnershipÂ
Financial institutions are moving to cloud, including for material and core workloads, at an ever-changing pace. The dynamics of this shift to cloud include not only the need to innovate and keep pace with competitive pressures, but also the need to enhance operational capabilities and infrastructure.
Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing: Discover new ways to engage with customers
In today’s shifting manufacturing landscape, customer engagement is critical for organizations that want to gain an edge. In fact, 86 percent of manufacturers say that improving customer experience is a key differentiator1.
Reflecting on HIMSS 2022: Reimagining healthcare for the future Â
The 2022 HIMSS conference wrapped up in Orlando and experts from around the world attended to share their perspectives and key learnings from the last two years of the pandemic, which have transformed healthcare and made a lasting impact.
Scale to revenue: How to leverage fintech solutions to drive growth
Roman and Gerald unpack how the right technology partner can transform the start-up ecosystem. Organizations that pay attention to community and social responsibility are far more likely to see growth, traction, and employee loyalty.
High-performance computing for accelerated vehicle innovation
High-performance computing (HPC) is a set of computing, networking, and storage resources integrated and orchestrated to optimize workloads or applications in cloud-enabled environments. HPC enables optimization and orchestration of on-demand central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and other computing resources needed to run intensive jobs or workloads.
How Microsoft is using an internal carbon fee to reach its carbon negative goal
From wildfires to floods, the catastrophic impacts of climate change threaten to outpace our global ability to adapt, as the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report has told us. This reinforces the importance of companies and people doing all they can to reduce their carbon emissions.
3 key takeaways from CERAWeek 2022 and a cleaner future for the energy transition
CERAWeek 2022 was an exceptional opportunity for the global energy ecosystem to come together and share diverse perspectives on key issues and build relationships that will drive collaborative co-innovation critical for the industry. It was truly motivating to see the community gather in Houston and to connect with customers, partners, and the Microsoft team.
The key role that trust and security plays within government agencies
It’s safe to say that hybrid work is the new normal for most governments. But supporting a distributed workforce that operates both in office environments and remotely creates an avenue for cybercriminals to attack government networks and infrastructure.