If you’re looking to learn more about Microsoft cloud, including how your organization could benefit from it, you’re in the right place. This comprehensive guide covers the basics and beyond, from “What is Microsoft cloud?”, to services and security.
Feel free to skip to the parts you’re most interested in by using the table of contents below. If you have any questions after reading, don’t hesitate to get in touch—I’m happy to provide clarification and answer any of your questions.
This was the first year I have not attended Microsoft Ignite, due to unforeseen circumstances. But this didn’t stop me from covering Ignite 2017. So here we go… Ignite 2017 this year has about 25k attendees. During the same time as Ignite, they are also running Microsoft Envision. This is more focused to business leaders across industries. Its main focus is to have Business Leaders understand and manage their organizations in the Digital Age.
Microsoft 365 Firstline offering and Microsoft 365 Education
New Windows 10 S devices from HP, Lenovo, Acer and Fujitsu starting at $275 USD
Intelligent personalized search power by Microsoft Graph
Bing for business
LinkedIn data integrated with Office 365 profile card
Office 365 search & discovery improvements
Windows 10 taskbar search
Intelligent Communications vision
Bring voice and video + new cognitive and data services into Micro Teams
Advances in Intelligent Security
Integrated Adminced threat Protection using Intelligent Security Graph
Better data protection and access control across Microsoft 365
New Compliance Manager, a single GDPR dashboard
Modernizing Business Process with Cloud and AI
Key Takeaways – Business Applications
New Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI Solutions
First solutions for customer care includes a virtual agent for customers, an intelligent assistant for support staff and conversational AI management tools, power by Microsoft AI
HP, Macy’s, and Microsoft already using this technology to improve customer satisfaction and handle more requests, more quickly
Modular apps for Dynamics 365
New modular apps are lightweight SaS services designed to transform one business process at a time
Work with Dynamics 3 business apps or can be used independently
Extend existing systems of record, integrate with Office 365 and augment with LinkedIn insights.
First to allow talent leaders and hiring managers to address a company’s most important asset, people
Attract: focused on recruiting | Onboard: helps you make new employees successful – Available later this year.
Deeper integration for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow + Office 365 and Dynamics 365
Rapidly build apps, automate tasks, simplify workflows and solve unique business problems.
Allow any business user familiar with InfoPath forms, Access databases or SharePoint list. This allows customers to build apps that help them achieve more, on a single no-code/low code platform.
Apps and Infra/Data and AI
Every customer is an AI customer
The Enterprise Cloud
Key Takeaways – Hybrid
Delivering true hybrid consistency
Azure Stack shipping through OEM partners including Dell EMC, HPE, and Lenovo
Database Migration Service (DMS)
Empowering customer to optimize costs
Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL server
Azure Cost Management by CFloudyn – free to all Azure subscriptions
Key Takeaways – Intelligence
Any data, any place
SQL Server on Linux Windows and Docker availability with SQL Server 2017 GA’
One convenient workbench for data scientists and AI developers
Azure Machine Learning Updates
Build intelligent apps at global scale
Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions integration
Performance and Scale for mission-critical analytic apps
Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview release of new “optimized for compute” performance tier
Cloud for Good – Key takeaways
To empower nonprofits, Microsoft Philanthropies will:
Microsoft has announced they met their 2016 commitment to donate $1 billion in cloud computing resources to nonprofits
Continue the cloud donations program, and triple the number of nonprofits Microsoft serves over the next three years
Launch a new Tech for Social Impact group, and the first offers, announced this week include:
Microsoft 365 for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Surface discounts for the first time ever
To get more detailed information about these announcements, please see links below or check out the Ignite2017 Site.
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