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Applications using artificial intelligence

Posted on 14 June 202114 June 2021 by itvision

Microsoft helps to create intelligent business applications using artificial intelligence. During the My Build 2021 conference, Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President, Azure AI, presented the company’s latest innovations in this area. He showed how the Azure platform simplifies the development environment. And presented how it enables the use of artificial intelligence in key applications of significance.

Azure AI – numbers speak for themselves

The best recommendation for Microsoft’s services is the number of users of the solutions. Every month, billions of users, transactions or messages are made thanks to Azure AI services:

28 billion inferences per month with Azure Machine Learning
53 billion transactions per month with Azure Cognitive Services
24 billion queries per month with Azure Cognitive Search
4 billion messages per month with Azure Bot Services

Applications using artificial intelligence – news from Azure AI

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Azure Cognitive Services

New capabilities have been added to Azure Cognitive Services, a family of AI services and cognitive APIs. New capabilities make it easier to build intelligent applications: document translation and text analytics.

Document translation, the translator feature in Azure Cognitive Services, is now generally available. It allows developers to quickly translate documents while maintaining the structure and format of the original documents. The solution also allows you to translate complex documents into many languages.

Azure AI suppoerts medical applications

Document Translation in Azure Cognitive Services also serves developers to process and extract insights from unstructured medical data, including medical notes, medical journals, electronic health records, and clinical trial protocols.

Azure Metrics Advisor

Microsoft’s solution – Azure Metrics Advisor acquires time series data and uses machine learning (ML) to proactively monitor metrics to detect anomalies and diagnose problems in business operations in sales or manufacturing processes.

Azure Video Analyzer

Azure Video Analyzer combines live video analytics and video indexer into one service to help developers quickly create AI-powered video analytics from stored and streamed videos. Microsoft’s new service can be used to improve work safety, improve retail sales in stores, or manage digital assets.

Azure Bot Service

Thanks to Azure Bot Service developers can build advanced bots using the new integrated development environment. Azure Bot Service now offers a visual build canvas with extensible open-source tools. It allows developers to add speech and telephony capabilities and test, debug, and publish bots across multiple channels with minimal code changes.

Cognitive Services

Cognitive Services is built on existing Azure AI models. It uses artificial intelligence to extract meaning from text and add speech to the application. Eric Boyd emphasizes that service users can use them to easily create AI solutions. It emphasizes that the purpose of the solution is to provide the packages and structure that helps create AI solutions for business processes.

Applications using artificial intelligence – easier and faster thanks to Microsoft’s solutions

Presented news and solutions help to create applications using artificial intelligence. They make the work of programmers or developers much easier. And allow focusing on the most important parts of the application development process by simplifying and automating repetitive steps. New solutions make the applications even more streamline the work and everyday life of their users. They are adding much more than just business value.

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Diverse SaaS applications with the Microsoft cloud

Posted on 9 June 202110 June 2021 by itvision

Thanks to Microsoft’s solutions, you can create diverse SaaS applications with the Microsoft cloud. The company provides developers all over the world with modern solutions. Solutions allow programmers and developers to meet the rapidly changing requirements of an increasingly digital market. With Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure and Teams they can build modern cloud SaaS applications quickly and easily, and with industry-specific cloud industry components from Microsoft, act faster and focus on the unique challenges of your industry.

During the presentation of new solutions and updates that Microsoft dedicates to developers, the segment related to creating SaaS applications could not be missing. We present the most important information about the Microsoft cloud and creating SaaS applications with their help, shown during the My Build 2021 conference.

Diverse SaaS Applications – The importance of the cloud is growing

Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President, Low Code Platform, talked about the Microsoft cloud. Charles emphasized that 70% of company leaders say that the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation process in their organizations. This is very important because it changes the approach to the cloud, and thus the approach to the application.

Solutions dedicated to industries

To further simplify the work of programmers, Microsoft provides components typical for market sectors of the given industry sectors.

With the entire Microsoft cloud at their disposal, developers can create solutions using repetitive elements and components, provided by Microsoft, that solve common challenges. Thanks to this, they can focus on building applications and on the most important areas.

By developing its cloud and tools to facilitate the work of developers, Microsoft is constantly introducing changes, following the latest trends. Currently, Microsoft supports binary coding, assembly languages, but also third generation languages.

Special clouds help specific industry sectors to work better

What is more, by trying to further improve the daily work of programmers and people creating applications thanks to low-code / no-code solutions, Microsoft offers access to special industry clouds that support specific industry sectors.

In dedicated clouds, thanks to the combination of environments, you can easily edit fields, forms, send and update data.

Thanks to the combination of environments, you can edit fields, forms, send and update data in a very simple way. At almost every conference, Microsoft representatives emphasize and develop no-code and low-code solutions that simplify application development, even for people who are not professional developers.

Microsoft’s cloud elements support SaaS applications

As developers create the next generation of SaaS applications, every element of the Microsoft cloud can play a role in the life of these solutions.Microsoft 365 and Teams allow you to create new SaaS environments based on the user interface used by application users.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is another starting point for SaaS applications. The solutions available in the system can be extended with the use of unique developing knowledge.

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform that allows you to modify and adapt the solution to your needs. This makes SaaS solutions more flexible.

Summary

Microsoft is constantly developing its services, improving the work of programmers, developers and enterprises. It currently supports over 60 Azure regions around the world, employs over 3,500 security experts and holds over 90 international certificates. These are just some of the data proving that the future is in the Microsoft cloud.

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Azure Cosmos DB – best NoSQL database service

Posted on 31 May 20211 June 2021 by itvision

Microsoft makes sure that its applications work together as well as possible. With each upgrade or release, it further simplifies users’ work on various applications, making them gain a consistent experience. What’s more, each novelty is to facilitate or improve the work of users. In the case of news presented during My Build, it primarily facilitates the work of programmers. Many of the changes announced at the conference concerned the Microsoft Azure solution. In this article, we would like to focus on changes and solutions in Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a NoSQL database service that allows you to create new applications. After updating Azure Cosmos BD, developers can modify specific fields or properties in the document without having to read and replace the full document. Additionally, serverless Azure Cosmos DB is now generally available for all APIs.

The approach to fees has also changed. Microsoft has proposed a weekly billing where you only pay for resources you actually use.

Azure Cosmos DB – Operating systems and learning

The introduced changes are also improvements for Linux users. Now they will gain the same programming experience as users of other operating systems.

Microsoft has also allowed Azure Cosmos DB to develop, test, and learn free on Linux and macOS devices.

Cache memory

Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache is now in preview. Customers can optimize the cost of read-intensive workloads by configuring the integrated cache on their Azure Cosmos DB accounts. Importantly, the integrated cache optimizes costs and increases performance for read-intensive workloads by up to 96 percent and 300 percent, respectively.

Data Security

We have emphasized many times that security issues are very important to Microsoft. Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview) enables customers to encrypt sensitive data in the application before it is stored in their databases, ensuring that sensitive parts of the data are only accessible to the right audience. The function also facilitates compliance with legal data protection requirements.

Azure Cosmos DB’s Enhanced Free Tier, now generally available, gives developers greater flexibility to innovate with bandwidth provisioned per 1000 request units and free 25 GB for monthly storage.

Other services and changes in Azure

Microsoft has released several updates to Azure AI services to help developers more quickly modernize common business processes.

Azure Bot Service

Azure Bot Service provides an integrated environment designed specifically for creating bots. Thanks to these changes, it now includes a visual authoring canvas with extensible open-source tools. This allows developers to add speech and telephony capabilities and test, debug, and publish bots across multiple channels with minimal code change.

Azure Metrics Advisor

Azure Metrics Advisor will be available to the public after the preview is available in September. The time series monitoring platform provides a set of APIs for data ingestion, anomaly detection, and diagnostic analysis without the need for machine learning knowledge.

Azure Video Analyzer

Azure Video Analyzer combines live video analytics and video indexing in one service. Now it’s in preview. It is intended to help developers quickly create video analytics based on artificial intelligence from image stored and streaming. Live Video Analytics allows developers to build intelligent video applications using the AI of their choice. Additionally, Video Indexer automatically extracts advanced metadata from video and audio content. Using Azure Video Analyzer includes workplace safety, in-store service, digital asset management, and content monetization.

Grouped Azure services

Grouped Azure services. Microsoft has grouped all Azure services, as well as Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Form Recognizer, and Azure Immersive Reader, into a new Azure AI category, which it calls Azure Applied AI Services. The services rely on the cognitive APIs from Azure Cognitive Services and Azure ML. Accelerate the development of AI solutions by providing additional task-specific AI and built-in business logic from Microsoft.

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The path to the leader of new technologies and digitization

Posted on 6 May 20216 May 2021 by itvision

The path to the leader of new technologies and digitization. Learn Microsoft’s history

The latest crisis has shown the importance of the level and quality of IT solutions in companies. It affects the resilience of the company, the reliability of processes and the introduction of necessary changes and the chances of survival on the market. The quality of these solutions is often associated with cooperation with strategic solution vendors. Is the vendor you work with able to survive the crisis on its own? And is their financial situation stable enough that they can continue to invest heavily in continual innovation of their products and services? These are actually worth asking when choosing an IT solution vendor. So let’s see how Microsoft questions is doing.

Rome was not built in a day. The history of Microsoft’s troubles.

The path to the leader of new technologies and digitization. Learn Microsoft's history

In 2013, Microsoft was perceived as an outdated and old-fashioned IT solutions vendor. It still had a strong presence and a large customer base. But it was fairly slow in responding to market needs. Moreover, at that time, despite large investments in research and development, Microsoft had problems with creating innovative products and services.

Microsoft is in full swing

In 2014, however, everything changed. And it was radically. Satyia Nadella was nominated as CEO of Microsoft companies. First of all, he introduced a new strategy “Cloud First, Mobility First”, which was quite progressive and innovative at the time. However, Nadella also changed Microsoft’s organizational culture. From a “know-it-all” approach at Microsoft, he moved to a “learning-everything” culture. Nadella’s management made the bottlenecks in the company disappear and cooperation between departments improved significantly. Thanks to Nadella, a large-scale growth focus was established at Microsoft.

It didn’t take long for the results of the changes and new strategies to appear. Thanks to focusing on cloud solutions, Microsoft has recorded a huge increase in cloud solutions. Additionally, it has signed contracts with its competitors such as SAP, Salesforce and Apple. Many powerful “single category products” have gradually become part of an attractive, intelligent cloud platform.

From zero to hero

Revenues and profits grew spectacularly, turning shareholders into happy investors. In the 7 years since Nadella took over as CEO, Microsoft’s market capitalization has grown from $ 300 billion to $ 1.9 trillion. That’s 6 times more in just 7 years. This is undoubtedly an unprecedented achievement!

Today, Microsoft is a true leader in digital transformation. Microsoft aims to empower every person and business on earth to achieve more. And that’s exactly what Microsoft does. The company is still the undisputed industry leader when it comes to investing in research and development. But Microsoft also has the courage to act fast when it comes to acquiring valuable pieces of technology. Strong innovations are being brought to market at a rapid pace, strengthening Microsoft’s powerful intelligent cloud platform.

Microsoft is not slowing down

One of the latest example of product development is the launch of Microsoft Viva, an integrated employee solution. Another example is the nearly $ 20 billion acquisition of Nuance Healthcare, the artificial speech technology company, the second largest acquisition in the company’s history.

Microsoft is ready to help your business make the most of its digital transformation and grow in the years to come. If you want to take advantage of Microsoft’s experience and products, get to know them better or arrange a consultation with an IT Vision specialist.

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Digital transformation is more than technology

Posted on 1 April 20211 April 2021 by itvision

Why digital transformation calls for more than just technology?

Digital transformation is often too closely linked to just technology with less focus on technology’s ability to improve business functions. Other than the implementation of a single piece of software like ERP or CRM, digital transformation is the process of completely digitizing your business processes, your way of operating and even your mindset. Digital transformation gives your company the opportunity to reshape the organization, modernize the business processes and how your employees work together, improve your products and services and put your customers as the central focus of everything you do.

Customers have the power

In today’s world, customers have the power. The transparency of the internet gives them the possibility to switch to an alternative vendor within just a few clicks. These modern customers also have huge expectations regarding topics like pro-activity, transparency, speed, clarity and quality. The pressure to provide good customer experience is even higher as any mistake or bad experience can be quickly communicated to the public via social media and review websites.

For all companies who are putting their customers, prospects, members or citizens at the heart of the organization, modernizing business processes and brushing up internal mindsets is nothing less than a crucial move to secure a healthy future!

New technologies – old processes

The number one fail factor for digital transformation projects however, is transferring all your existing business processes, the outdated reports, the crude data and the old way of thinking from an on-premise situation to the cloud. Continuing to use your old processes and traditional mindset after embracing digital is the equivalent of keeping old wine in new bottles. Companies that select this scenario run the risk of losing time, budget, energy and momentum.

Success in digital transformation projects starts in the boardroom and not in your IT department!

Some crucial elements for achieving transformation success are a clear vision, true management engagement, time and budget for organizational change and good communication.

If you have the impression that digital transformation is “just another IT project”, then it is high time to take action. Seek inspiration. Read books. Attend workshops. And make sure that your top management is fully involved!

After all, it is better to gain these insights before the project starts than once the project has failed.

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Microsoft cloud strength fuels first quarter financial results

Posted on 2 December 202023 December 2020 by itvision

Microsoft Corp. announced its results for the quarter ended September 20, 2020 with revenue of $ 37.2 billion. (Up 12% compared to the same period last year), operating income of $ 15.0 billion (up 25%). And earnings per share of $ 1.82 (up 32%). All results out-performing analyst expectations. Net income rose 30% compared to the same quarter last year, reaching $ 13.9 billion.

Azure revenue grew 48%, while cloud services and server products increased 22% overall. In the previous quarter, Azure revenue grew 47% on 17% growth overall in that segment.

Revenue from the Dynamics ERP

Despite COVID-19, the revenue from the Dynamics ERP and CRM products and cloud services increased 19%. Mostly driven by Dynamics 365 cloud revenue growth of 38%. While the revenue for the broader Productivity and Business Processes segment was $ 12.3 billion and increased 11%. Last quarter, Dynamics revenue overall increased 13%, with Dynamics 365 revenue growth of 38%.

This fast and unparalleled ongoing growth in business applications confirms the trust that the market has in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions, in Microsoft’s intelligent cloud platform as in the overall Microsoft vision.

Strong financial results

“Demand for our cloud offerings drove a strong start to the fiscal year with our commercial cloud revenue generating $ 15.2 billion, up 31% year over year,” said Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft. “We continue to invest against the significant opportunity ahead of us to drive long-term growth.”

These strong financial results combined with the positive outlook for the coming years will enable Microsoft to continue investments in the field of Research and Development. Therefore, the company can speed up its mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Stream of innovation that never stops

“The next decade of economic performance for every business will be defined by the speed of their digital transformation,” said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft. “We are innovating across our full modern tech stack to help our customers in every industry improve time to value, increase agility and reduce costs.”

For the Microsoft implementation partners and their current and potential customers, these ongoing strong results confirm the confident they have in a stable and innovative future. A strategic choice for Microsoft’s business solutions is a choice for a stream of innovation that never stops.

Management systems in remote work

Posted on 14 December 202014 December 2020 by itvision

The world has always been changing. This year, however, the changes were more dynamic and unexpected than ever before. Especially those regarding the style and mode of working. Remote work, however, is not only about transferring employees from offices to their homes.

Changing the style of work brings with it many challenges related to data security, the possibility of remote access to all systems and easy communication between employees, customers and partners.

Management systems in remote work

Management systems can support this remote work. But they providers also had to find the right solutions almost overnight. Microsoft also supports its users in switching to remote work. Sylwia Wójcik says more about Microsoft’s support in the following interview.

Remote work and the current approach of system providers encourage companies to use cloud solutions. However, cloud-based solutions have some limitations. Piotr Podgórni talks more about those and the future of on-premise solutions.

The interview with Sylwia and Piotr is one of the series of interviews dedicated to the Directions 4 Partners conference.

We spoke to Nelson Tavares da Silva (QBS Group) about how Covid-19 has impacted the way businesses are run and digitized. We also got to know the new advantages of the Microsoft system

We talked about new features in Microsoft’s solutions with experts from IBSC. See what they say about the conference:

We spoke with Inga Sartauskaite (1ClickFactory) about the impressions from the conference and how the way of running the company has changed.

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Directions 4 Partners conference

Posted on 23 November 202024 November 2020 by itvision

The Directions 4 Partners conference is behind us. Event aims to support and develop Microsoft’s partners – companies implementing their systems. The conference is for partners 3 days of intensive learning and expanding knowledge. During the meeting, new solutions and plans for further system improvements are also presented.

Directions 4 Partners conference – different than usual

This year, the conference was different than usual. There were no face-to-face meetings and 4-eye exchange of experiences. However, it abounded in many thematic sessions, speeches by experts and distinguished guests. The remote conference mode allowed more participants than ever to be gathered.

Microsoft Directions 4 Partners – a series of interviews

We prepared a series of interviews summarizing the Directions conference.

See the interview with Inga Sartauskaite from 1ClickFactory

Interview with Inga Sarauskaite from 1ClickFactory

The first interview we present is an interview with Inga Sartauskaite from 1Cli c kFactory.

Inga not only told about her impressions from the conference. In the interview, we can see how IT companies and their customers are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

Inga also emphasized the importance of digitization of processes and entire companies for effective work.

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