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Microsoft Cloud for Retail: Architect Perspective

2020 was the year in which we experienced disruptive changes at a pace and a scale that we could never have imagined. COVID-19 caused disruptions in product supply and demand, in the labor pool, and consumer spending. But it also allowed many sectors to embrace digitalization like never before.

Retail is 31% of the world’s GDP, and that data is the demand signal for the world. In 2020, the retail industry faced challenges but also opportunities. First, the retail sector accelerated the already underway transition from physical retail to e-commerce quickly.

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Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services — Architect Perspective

Financial institutions have embraced digital innovation at a recorded pace to adopt new ways of working, serving the financial needs of customers, and keeping the markets performing. Moreover, they have done so while still operating within their control frameworks and regulatory requirements needed to serve in all parts of the world.

According to the 2020 Frost and Sullivan Global Cloud User Survey, “multi-cloud adoption has skyrocketed among financial firms in the past year, up nearly 70%. In addition, hybrid cloud adoption — already higher among financial firms than other industries — is up 8%. In response to the pandemic, financial firms are accelerating their cloud journeys, knitting together disparate IT environments (on‑premises, edge, and multiple clouds) as a foundation for digitalization.”

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Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing: An Architecture Perspective

Manufacturers around the globe are becoming more agile and adaptable. Post-COVID 2020 has been a year that we will not soon forget. 

This interference has led to the high demand for innovation, fast delivery, and better user experience. Filled with unimaginable change caused by the pandemic, the manufacturing industry witnessed a perfect storm, a significant disruption in terms of business continuity, operational visibility, remote work, employee safety, and the list goes on. However, businesses have responded, adapted, and are recovering.  

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Industry Cloud Is The Future Of Cloud Transformation and Realization

Today, the cloud underpins most new technological disruptions and has proven itself during times of uncertainty with its resiliency, scalability, flexibility, and speed.

According to Gartner, Cloud adoption has expanded rapidly — more than 20% CAGR from 2020 to 2025 in total spending. But guess what — total cloud spend still makes up ‘only’ about 10% of global enterprise IT spend. So where is the barrier? What’s holding the Public Cloud penetration and pervasive usage inside enterprises?

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Hands-On With Adobe Document Generation in Microsoft Power Automate

These days, people are looking to automate many everyday actions within their organization. In a world where people are more commonly having smart homes, people get more used to having the bots do much of the tedious work. By becoming more comfortable in this venue, people are expecting more ways to automate tasks at work.

One of the everyday tasks that people need to get done in their work is generating documents. Whether this is contracts, employee on-boarding paperwork, brochures, statements, or invoices, creating documents using Adobe Document Generation can save a considerable amount of time copying and pasting content into Word documents. What’s more, it can also ensure that things are on-brand and consistent.

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Accelerating DevOps in Azure Environments With Office 365

Office 365 is Microsoft's Cloud delivery of Office.  That includes traditional Office applications, like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, et cetera. However, it also comes with many Enterprise features to enable things like data loss prevention, conditional access to resources, and Office 365 message encryption. There are a lot of things that tie into the broader Cloud that I believe Enterprise Office users would find very familiar and very useful when it comes to managing their infrastructure, managing their data, and how they collaborate.

Gartner estimates that Office 365 is twice as popular in enterprises as Google apps.