How can business leaders generate the right outcomes? With timely, fact-based decision making. Data can help an organisation identify new opportunities and uncover hidden efficiencies. The business world is no stranger to disruptions and changes, and when you extract as much value from data as possible, your organisation will be able to move with speed…Read more
Former NHS chief executive Simon Stevens once said that the only renewable source of energy in healthcare is patients. I think this is true. There are always going to be more patients. But as recent times have shown, there’s hardly ever going to be enough of everything else. The last two years has certainly exacerbated…Read more
One of the great perks of my role is getting to speak to some of the biggest retailers in the UK about how their partnership with Microsoft can help shape the future of retail. I was speaking with one of our customers recently about the technology they use in store. Like many others, this retailer…Read more
Microsoft Azure’s core offerings can be broken down into three PaaS offerings for storing and managing your high scale data workloads: Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks and HDInsight, plus Microsoft Power BI for visualising it….Read more
The green industrial revolution is well under way. With industrial sites responsible for 30 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions, the time for action is now. New infrastructure, new business models, new partnerships, new energy markets, unknown costs – this complex terrain is uncharted. So, given the industry’s net zero aspirations and goals to…Read more
Until recently, creating apps rested solely in the hands of professional developers. However, the surge in digital demand across every industry, and rise of low-code development platforms has set the stage for those outside of IT to solve business challenges themselves by making app building easy with drag-and-drop simplicity. When innovation becomes culture, we can…Read more
Gaining a customer for life happens when organisations make every interaction matter. Whether that is reacting efficiently to a customer query, complaint or need, or proactively taking steps to offer a new product or service. The key is to personalise the experience. Demand for this bespoke treatment has increased. Today’s expectations are for hyper personalisation…Read more
With AI, we can build solutions that seemed like science fiction a short time ago; enabling incredible advances in health care, financial management, environmental protection, and other areas to make a better world for everyone….Read more
Azure Machine Learning provides an environment to create and manage the end-to-end life cycle of Machine Learning models. Get started today….Read more
It’s a fascinating time for retail in the UK. Retailers are learning how to adapt to this new world we’re in now. Shopping habits have changed, supply chains face emerging challenges, and whispers from the metaverse speak of brands positioning themselves in ways that would’ve seemed like science fiction less than a decade ago. The…Read more
I hear a lot of people talking about the journey to the cloud. But for me, the cloud isn’t a destination, it’s the enabler. The destination is agility. When we talk about app innovation, we’re talking about exploring new ways to become more agile as organisations. I work with a lot of customers in the…Read more
Imagine a scenario where you’ve got a horse and cart, and you need to get from point A to point B. Using them will take you there, but if somebody offered you a jet, you wouldn’t think twice about switching to the better form of transport. You’d get there much faster and in more comfort….Read more
