Microsoft Ignite announced services and updates designed to help customers, partners, and developers get the full value of Microsoft technologies. At every layer of the technology stack—be it infrastructure, data, hybrid working, development tools, and security—Microsoft Cloud showcased solutions to help organizations be more secure and help their workers complete their tasks more easily and efficiently. effective.
Microsoft knows that things become more useful to businesses when they become part of ordinary workflows, which is why the company has invested heavily in AI technology across the board, Microsoft 365, developer tools, Microsoft Cloud and offerings. of security.
“At this year’s Ignite, we focused on how the Microsoft Cloud is helping customers do more with less. In today’s uncertain economic environment, companies are looking to change the way they work for better results, with less friction and more choice,” said Frank X. Shaw, corporate vice president of communications.
Take a look at what’s next for Microsoft and its partners, technical decision makers, and information technology implementers.
Infrastructure that works for each client
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Azure Cosmos DB already helps mission-critical applications of any size or scale deliver speed and availability to users anywhere in the world, increasing geographic availability, scalability, and distribution. Now, Microsoft is adding distributed database support for PostgreSQL, a popular open source database engine. This means PostgreSQL developers can take advantage of the speed, scale, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB, and open source developers can access structured and unstructured data in a familiar database service.
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Visual Studio Images for the Microsoft Dev Box, a preview service that provides cloud-based, code-ready workstations for developers. With Visual Studio available, as soon as a developer creates a development box, they can save time and focus on coding what matters.
Harness the power of AI
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Azure OpenAI Service, part of the Azure AI platform, will offer invite-only access to DALL E 2, a model that allows users to generate custom images using text or images. The addition of the DALL E 2 model expands the variety of use cases that Azure OpenAI Service customers can employ with the security, compliance, and responsible AI measures that Azure provides. Select customers will be able to generate content, images and code to bring visual ideas to life, all by entering simple text.
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Power Automate simplifies workflows by using the power of AI in everyday natural language. Users can create a flow in the cloud that corresponds to the request made using natural language. Here, AI helps turn low code into no code, making it easier for more people to create different types of automation faster.
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Microsoft Syntex integrates offerings from across the Microsoft cloud, from Microsoft 365 and Azure to Power Platform and Microsoft Purview. Syntex automatically reads, tags, and indexes large volumes of content and connects it where it’s needed in context: in search, in applications, and as reusable knowledge.
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Microsoft Intelligent Document Processing, powered by AI Builder and Power Automate, enables end-to-end document processing without the need for code, while AI Builder automates this process, giving workers time to focus on highest priority jobs.
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Microsoft is also making conversation intelligence free for Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise and the newly released Viva Sales. The solution empowers sellers with the power of insights and helps them be more productive through the use of data science and analytics.
Helping organizations thrive in the new world of work
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Microsoft Places, a new application for the workplace, optimizes the use of physical space. According to Microsoft’s Recent Work Trends Index, more than 80% of employees go to the office for each other. Places provides information on when colleagues enter the office or which in-person meetings are best suited for.
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Smart Summarization will use AI to assign meeting tasks, automatically generate meeting chapters, and share personalized information from the recording, allowing users to discover the information that matters most to them. It will be delivered, along with other new features, as part of the new Teams Premium add-on, which is purchased separately.
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Microsoft Edge Workspaces, a shared set of browser tabs where groups can see the same websites and latest work files in one place. As the team works together, tabs update in real time, so everyone stays on the same page.
Comprehensive security means helping protect everyone wherever they choose to work
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Defender for DevOps enables organizations to secure applications as they are built, giving developers the confidence that when they source code from external sources or work with large application teams, they know they can stay ahead of security vulnerabilities and offer a more secure solution. .
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Power Platform Managed Environments enable organizations to introduce low code widely to spur innovation with the knowledge that IT administrators maintain governance and security capabilities over low-code deployments, allowing teams to build at scale without worry of security.
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Microsoft Enter introduces identity and access management solutions designed to work securely across multiple cloud platforms. Microsoft Entra Identity Governance helps organizations ensure that the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time. Within Entra Identity, Workload Identities control and secure identities for digital workloads, such as applications and services, and control user access to cloud resources, while certificate-based authentication enables customers to adopt easily implementable phishing-resistant authentication.
