Microsoft Launches Latest Cloud

Microsoft is launching new collaboration and productivity services across applications and the web as well as artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Microsoft 365.

Satya Nadella

The service was launched to address the needs and changes in the current work culture that demands the presence of new solutions that provide smarter and customer-oriented experiences.
Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, said Microsoft is committed to providing tools and platforms for developers that cover every layer of modern technology.

"It aims to build amazing experiences that create new opportunities,"

In addition, Microsoft brings open source technology and new developer tools to Azure and Windows.

Microsoft's cloud computing platform that includes infrastructure, data, AI and mixed-reality, productivity and

collaboration, and business applications and the game functions to unite global developers with technological capabilities to create new breakthroughs and experiences for organizations and individuals.

Here are some of the new things that Microsoft launched:

1. Microsoft Graph
Originating from Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph is one of the most comprehensive organizational activity charts. Microsoft Graph safely maps relationships

between workers, information and activities in the organizational context to indicate the point of connection and

insights to improve the way people work and work together.

"We are creating new opportunities for developers to build their work on Microsoft Graph,

with the availability of Microsoft Graph data connect, "Nadella explained.

Microsoft Graph data connect is a service that helps organizations integrate productivity data from Microsoft Graph with business data safely and scaled using Azure Data Factory.

2. Update in Azure: from cloud to edge
Azure also presents updates on Azure services and developer technology that bring improved AI, mixed-reality, IoT, and blockchain capabilities directly in the hands of developers.

Meanwhile, Microsoft presents innovative Azure services for developers to build the next generation of applications. New innovations at Azure Machine Learning will simplify the process of building, training and implementing machine learning models.

3. Expand opportunities through Intelligent Edge
Microsoft is introducing several new products and solutions to continue to meet the emerging needs of cloud and edge computing, including:

• Azure SQL Database Edge to support the spectrum of edge computing needs.

• IoT Plug and Play, a new open modeling language to seamlessly connect IoT devices to the cloud, allowing developers to navigate one of the biggest challenges faced by using IoT solutions on a large scale.

• For mixed-reality development, Microsoft introduced the HoloLens 2 developer edition or HoloLens 2 Development Edition, which provides access to the mixed-reality developer community to solutions to help them build and run mixed-reality experiences on various devices.

• Deepen investment in partners and developers

Since it first introduced a sales collaboration program (co-sell), Microsoft has brought the ability of the global-scale sales team to the community of Microsoft partners around the world, and nearly 3,000 Azure-based ISVs have generated revenue of up to US $ 5 million in the last 12 months.

The program is designed to help Microsoft customer companies achieve digital transformation by introducing relevant solutions from Azure-based ISV partners with the introduction of seat-based SaaS capabilities that can be transacted for AppSource and Azure Marketplace.

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