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Finastra creates new era of fintech using Microsoft machine learning and analytics tools 

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    By Ed FandreyVice President Financial Services, US at Microsoft
  Created in 2017 from the combination of two long-standing companies, Finastra has already emerged as one of the largest financial technology (fintech) companies in the world, building solutions to support banking and other financial services. Finastra has made innovation its hallmark, constantly seeking new ways to use technology to improve financial services for banks...Read more
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Canada Federal PBMM Azure Blueprint Available 

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    By Lily KimGeneral Manager, Azure Global
For organizations planning to host IaaS or PaaS workloads in Microsoft Azure, Microsoft is publishing a series of blueprint samples built in to Azure to help you proactively manage and monitor your compliance obligations....Read more
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The evolution of the Chief Financial Officer 

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    By Nadeem YusufalyBusiness Group Lead – Dynamics 365 Finance and Operation
With Digital Transformation changing the way businesses operate, executive roles are changing just as rapidly to meet today’s challenges head on. Organizations that fall behind risk losing market share to their competition....Read more
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Risk management and the cloud 

In the financial services world, both regulatory changes and increasingly complex, data-intensive modeling are creating challenges for risk teams. In Canada and around the world, regulators are mandating increased compliance, capital adequacy and reporting requirements to avoid systemic risk, improve transparency, and make markets safer for investors....Read more
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PowerApps: Innovation for all 

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    By Ronald ChangProduct Marketing Manager, Canada – Microsoft Power Platform
Automation is a thriving part of every job, data is driving more decisions than ever before, and thus the pressure for modernizing an organization is growing rapidly. But transformation isn’t always easy. Who will create the solutions? Who will inform them? How will solutions be connected with the data that makes them relevant?...Read more
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Kognitiv Spark uses Microsoft HoloLens to empower field workers 

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    By Greg DashwoodProduct Lead, Internet of Things & Advanced Analytics at Microsoft Canada
Kognitiv Spark, located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, is empowering industrial workers to achieve more through mixed and augmented reality. Using Microsoft HoloLens, along with artificial intelligence, Azure IoT Hub and Azure Custom Vision Services, the proprietary platform, RemoteSpark, brings expert help to field workers when they need it the most....Read more