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James Phillips

President, Microsoft Business Applications

James Phillips is a Microsoft corporate vice president and leader of the company’s Business Applications Group – a product development organization with 7,000 team members spanning the globe.

His teams build and operate Microsoft’s business applications and services; and the application, integration and intelligence platforms beneath them – collectively powering the digital transformation initiatives of some of the world’s largest organizations. His product portfolio includes the Dynamics 365 family, the Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Flow) and Microsoft’s AI and mixed reality business applications.

Phillips joined Microsoft in 2012 as a strategy advisor to Satya Nadella, then president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Phillips was founder and CEO of multiple software companies; held engineering, product management, corporate development and marketing leadership roles at Intel, VMware and Synopsys; and spent two years as a technology investment banker with UBS PaineWebber advising public and private software companies on M&A strategy and execution.

He holds a BS in Mathematics and earned his MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Most comprehensive 360-degree customer view
Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Most comprehensive 360-degree customer view

Know your customers like never before In every industry, we hear about the struggle to transform from a reactive to proactive organization that can respond to changes in the market, customer needs, and even within their own business. When we talk to customers who have rolled out Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, the...Read more
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A Dell Latitude 7410 configured with a multi-monitor set-up displaying Microsoft Teams, Excel, Power BI and Windows Start menu. Remote Working collection. Keywords: remote work, remote working, work from home, working at home, home office, telecommuting, video conference, video call, Microsoft Teams

This morning, Alysa Taylor and I are welcoming the global community of technology professionals to Microsoft Ignite in two key segments streaming live and rebroadcast throughout the event. This community will play a leading role in realizing the vision and priorities we’re discussing at Microsoft Ignite—solutions to help build resiliency into every layer of business...Read more
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a man sitting at a table using a laptop

Today marks the official start of the 2020 release wave 1, kicking off the deployment of new applications and hundreds of new capabilities and updates across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. This release lands at an unprecedented time for business and society. We are providing support and resources for organizations on the frontlines...Read more
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a person sitting at a table in front of a laptop computer

As organizations respond to the ongoing, unprecedented situation and grapple with disruptions across their workforce due to the evolving global health crisis, we want to share the steps we’re taking to help ensure our customers’ business continuity with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. Our priority is the seamless delivery of Business Applications services...Read more
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A group of colleagues in discussion in a conference room.

Today we’re unveiling new and enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across Dynamics 365 applications, as well as a new solution to help project-centric services organizations transform their operations. Joining more than 400 new and updated features in the 2020 wave 1 release, these new capabilities expand a fast-growing set of applications powered by AI-driven insights, and further propel our vision to empower every organization...Read more
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Empowering organizations everywhere to gain insight from all their data sources and deliver personalized customer engagement There is a fundamental change occurring across industries and organizations: Data now comes from everywhere and everything. As customers have access to more content, purchasing channels, and brand options than before, the touchpoints become exponential—every website visit, use of...Read more
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Business woman giving presentation on the Power Platform.

It’s a privilege to work with global organizations every day to help them compete and innovate in a modern, data-driven economy. Our goal with Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft Power Platform is to help your organization drive more impactful business outcomes and take proactive actions that will uniquely position and differentiate your business in the...Read more
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a group of people sitting at a table in front of a window

2019 release wave 2 launches with new applications and hundreds of capabilities across Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Today marks the general availability of more than 400 new feature updates and capabilities across Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. This release wave—one of our largest to date—showcases our continued investment in artificial intelligence to...Read more
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a person sitting in a chair

2019 release wave 2 plan, AI Builder, updated AI capabilities, and a new look for Power BI, PowerApps Portals, and enhancements for Microsoft Flow all coming this year. Today, I had the opportunity to join more than 4,500 members of our community at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) in Atlanta. MBAS is a special...Read more
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a person sitting in a chair

Today, we officially kick off the release of a six-month wave of more than 350 new capabilities, feature updates and applications across Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. This update continues our commitment to deliver two major releases per year—in April and October—with new capabilities and innovations to help you stay ahead of rapid changes...Read more
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There has been a lot of energy surrounding Microsoft’s Power Platform lately. A couple of weeks ago during a presentation he gave on campus, Satya Nadella talked about the importance of the Power Platform and how it serves as a core offering for our customers. Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and the Power Platform on top...Read more
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As we continue our momentum and investments in Microsoft business applications, I’m excited to highlight some of the new capabilities in the October 2018 release of Dynamics 365 and the Power platform at Ignite 2018 today. In my keynote at the event with Alysa Taylor, we are featuring two customers, Polaris Industries and Northwell Health....Read more
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