Leading in the era of AI: How Microsoft’s platform differentiation and Copilot empowerment are driving AI Transformation

A Copilot on every desk, every device and across every role is core to Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. By bolstering the services customers know and love with our Copilot capabilities across the Microsoft Cloud, we are enabling zero-shot innovation — the ability to effectively gain value out of the box — for their businesses to increase productivity, creativity, and inclusive collaboration. ISVs, digital natives, startups, and the rest of our partner ecosystem are leveraging our Copilot stack to build AI solutions that are reshaping business processes across industries. We continue co-innovating directly with customers on our open cloud platform to bend the curve on innovation by identifying AI design patterns; then integrating and applying data to solve their most pressing challenges faster and more efficiently than ever before. Underpinning it all is the need for a strong cybersecurity foundation and the work we are doing to ensure this critical imperative is met. No one is immune from bad actors, and we remain committed to transparency and trust in our approach to protecting customer and partner data. By empowering organizations with industry-leading cloud and responsible AI solutions, paired with our focus on security, we are helping them unlock opportunities that deliver pragmatic business outcomes. I am proud of the work we have done this past quarter that exemplifies our approach to enabling AI Transformation, and the success of our customers and partners across industries who have embraced it read more…

4 strategies to accelerate AI Value Creation: Advice for chief AI Officers

What can we learn from organizations that consistently see significant, measurable value from AI?

While multiple elements play a part in AI success, the most powerful factor—by far—is that leadership consistently communicates a clear vision and commitment to AI. In fact, according to The AI Strategy Roadmap, 100% of organizations at the most advanced stage of AI readiness report strong vision and commitment from senior leaders, compared to 1% of organizations at the earliest stage.

To learn more about his role and the emerging best practices for AI leadership, I sat down with Florin Rotar, Chief AI Officer (CAIO) at Avanade. Rotar is the company’s first-ever CAIO and has been tasked with leading the company to deliver sustainable AI value for clients and Avanade itself. We discussed a range of topics, including reading more…

Leading in the era of AI: How Microsoft’s platform differentiation and Copilot empowerment are driving AI Transformation

A Copilot on every desk, every device and across every role is core to Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. By bolstering the services customers know and love with our Copilot capabilities across the Microsoft Cloud, we are enabling zero-shot innovation — the ability to effectively gain value out of the box — for their businesses to increase productivity, creativity and inclusive collaboration. ISVs, digital natives, startups and the rest of our partner ecosystem are leveraging our Copilot stack to build AI solutions that are reshaping business processes across industries read more…

Introducing modern data governance for the era of AI

The era of generative AI has arrived, offering new possibilities for every person, business, and industry. At the same time, the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks, increasing regulations, an ever-expanding data estate, and business demand for data insights are all converging. This convergence pressurizes business leaders to adopt a modern data governance and security strategy to confidently ensure AI readiness.    

A modern data governance and security solution unifies data protection and governance capabilities, simplifies actions through business-friendly profiles and terminology with AI-powered business efficiency, and enables federated governance across a disparate multi-cloud data estate read more…

From vision to value realization from vision to value realization: A closer look at how customers are embracing AI Transformation to unlock innovation and Deliver Business Outcomes from vision to Value Realization

Each quarter, I share a collection of customer and partner stories from around the world that highlight the incredible technological advancements shaping the future of the industry. As a partner of choice, we are committed to helping organizations accelerate AI Transformation to unlock opportunities and realize material business value. Our ability to bend the curve on AI innovation is allowing us to live truer to our mission than ever before: to empower our customers and partners to achieve more.

I am sharing an additional blog this quarter because we are seeing so much inspiring AI Transformation and pragmatic innovation with our customers. Their impressive results are benefiting employees, businesses, and industry, and I would like to expand on a handful of stories that crystallize the tangible impact AI is having on organizations that embrace it read more…

AI transformation in action—how organizations are innovating today

Today’s business environment is fast-paced, and to keep up and thrive, organizations are looking to improve their business outcomes, advance productivity, and maximize efficiency. I hear this all the time when I speak to customers of all sizes. Over the past year, the conversation has started to shift from “if” AI can help a company achieve its goals—now it’s “how” and “how fast can we do this?” One way they’re achieving transformation is through the Microsoft Cloud and AI technologies.

And this transformation is not just a vision for the future. AI is demonstrating real business value and economic impact for our customers today. In fact, companies have reported significant benefits from using Microsoft AI read more..