In a recent announcement, Microsoft displayed more than 90 latest services, updates at Ignite 2021, discovering the advance ways of connecting people, organizations and ideas. The annual conference displayed out the prospects in optimizing for the latest world of hybrid work, supporting clients in structuring out the hyperconnected businesses, renovating into digital businesses, and securing out their digital journeys with end-to-end security.
Statement from Naim Yazbeck, Regional Director, Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG), Microsoft UAE
Naim Yazbeck, Regional Director, Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG), Microsoft UAE stated that, “Every industry in the region has felt the full force of the digital transformation, as enterprises have had to adopt drastically different strategies to keep their organisations secure and stable, requiring them to be technologically flexible.”
He also added out further that, “The impactful advantages of the Microsoft Cloud will enable people to safely navigate through today’s digital environment, equipping them with future-proof innovations that empower teams to optimize their productivity and strengthen connections in today’s hybrid workplace.”
This year’s Ignite Conference emphasized three major areas of focus:
Powering the metaverse
The Microsoft Cloud offered a comprehensive set of resources designed to power metaverses via their IoT capabilities that empowered clients to create ‘digital twins’ of physical objects in the cloud, utilization of the AI-powered resources to create natural interactions via the speech and vision machine learning models.
Additionally, Microsoft announced, utilization of the newly announced Microsoft Mesh to shape a shared sense of presence on devices, bridges communication methods that permitted public to be present without being physically present through personalized avatars and immersive spaces that can be accessed from any device.
Further discovering the prospects in the evolution of the metaverse, the firm also announced Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces, which offered a latest perspective on the way public move and interact with nearly any space, from the retail store to the factory floor, and how they accomplished health and safety in a hybrid work environment.
Interpreting AI
Possessing the most robust AI supercomputer globally, Microsoft endures to expand the opportunities of what AI technology can achieve. New at Ignite, the Azure OpenAI Service will offer its clients access to Microsoft’s partner OpenAI’s robust models in addition to the security, reliability, compliance, data privacy and other enterprise-grade capabilities built into Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft is also offering Azure OpenAI Service customers tools to ensure outputs the models provide are business-appropriate and will be closely monitoring how people are employing the technology to assure it is being used correctly.
Structuring trust in digital ecosystems
Microsoft, has announced that it is creating and paving way for the identity system of the future, one that connects and empowers individuals, organisations, apps, smart devices to make real-time access decisions safely and securely.
Termed as The Azure Active Directory (AD), as per Microsoft announcement, it aids in extending the beyond fortifying and managing access to prevailing support client processes across external collaboration methods.
Unveiled at Ignite, Microsoft Teams Connect has established significant upgrades to benefit and remove even more barriers, thus, shaping out a boundaryless ecosystem. As per the announcement by the firm, the Teams Shared Channels consents its clients to invite an external team to join a channel, schedule a shared channel meeting and collaborate on files.
Furthermore, added benefit is that Chat with Teams grants its clients to chat seamlessly with public outside of a work network. Teams’ users at work can chat with any Players user with a Microsoft personal email address or phone number and remain within the security and compliance protocols of their organisation.
As per the firm sources, among many other enhancements across Azure, businesses security solutions, few key products, updates at Ignite also comprised: Microsoft Loop, a new app that moves freely across applications, enabling teams to think, plan, and create together. This empowers clients to organize everything they require for project files, links and data from other apps into a single workspace.
The Microsoft Customer Experience Platform is a marketing solution that puts organizations in control of their customer data to personalize, automate and orchestrate customer journeys. Context IQ, a set of capabilities that will further integrate collaborations, sharing and communication in the flow of work across Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Teams.
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