Author: Microsoft Stories

MediaValet Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based digital asset management software, was selected by Microsoft as a finalist for two 2016 Canadian IMPACT Awards (“Modern Marketing Innovation Award” and “Winning Together Award”) and one global Partner of the Year Award (“Modern Marketing Partner of the Year”). MediaValet shared the ‘Winning Together Award’ nomination and finalist position with its partner, Orckestra Inc., from Montreal.

Leading enterprise event automation provider, Certain, announced its partnership with Microsoft to build an integrated event and marketing automation solution on Windows 10. Craig Dewar, Senior Director, Windows Marketing, Microsoft, said, “We’re excited to collaborate with innovative partners like Certain to make its enterprise event automation solution available on Windows 10, delivering an optimized experience for enterprise clients and their event attendees across all their devices.”

BitTitan, the leader in cloud services enablement, announced its platinum sponsorship at the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada. At the event, BitTitan will demo its comprehensive MSP cloud services enablement platform, MSP Complete, and lead a number of sessions to educate partners on how to open the door to new and recurring cloud revenues as modern managed service providers.

Intigua, the company that pioneered configuration management for software agents, has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance. As part of the program, it has integrated Intigua Agent Manager, which monitors, controls and automates server tools, with Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Operations Management Suite. Jeremy Winter, Partner Director PM, Microsoft, said, “We welcome Intigua to the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance and we look forward to see their solution expanding the capabilities of Microsoft System Center and Operations Management Suite.”

Microsoft is the first hyper scale public cloud provider to offer services from local datacenters in India. With a complete portfolio of cloud services – Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft continues to lead the market by offering ‘cloud-on-your-terms’ across sectors like BFSI, healthcare, media & entertainment, telecom and government customers. Organizations across different industries are using the flexibility, security and advanced computing capabilities of Microsoft cloud to drive innovation and customer value.

Microsoft has launched an advertisement heavy media blitzkrieg about its Azure cloud offering in response to Amazon Web Services announcement that it has set up data centers in India to serve the local market. Microsoft, which has had deep relationships with Indian enterprises, is hoping that transition to cloud would happen on its platform Azure. Thus both AWS and Microsoft are keenly wooing entrepreneurs – big and small.

Microsoft announced the appointment of Crayon Software Experts India Pvt. Ltd as a distribution partner under its Cloud Solution Provider program in India. Crayon will help its Indian customers to adopt Microsoft’s Cloud based technology solutions like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Windows Intune and Enterprise Mobility Suite subscriptions. Manohar Hotchandani, Director-Business Development, Microsoft India, said, “Accelerating cloud adoption amongst SMBs, Crayon’s capabilities will offer customers greater technical edge with enterprise-grade technology and fully managed services delivered from the Microsoft cloud.”

According to Xbox marketing executive Mike Nichols, pre-orders for the new console revision seem to be off to a pretty ‘amazing start.’ Microsoft declined to give any concrete numbers to back up their claims, though they did note that response to the new console has been uniformly enthusiastic across retailers and consumers, both.

The next Xbox One S console doesn’t even have a Kinect port, showing that even Microsoft doesn’t care about the depth sensor for gaming. However, it may yet make a comeback in VR. Microsoft researchers have made hand and finger-tracking much more accurate using the Kinect, which may eventually make it a more attractive option than a controller for VR games. Microsoft UK researcher Jamie Shotton said, “We’re getting to the point that the accuracy is such that the user can start to feel like the avatar hand is their real hand.”

DBS Bank has decided to adopt cloud-based productivity technology, Office 365, in the workplace, enabling its employees to change the way they work, as well as make a leap forward in terms of mobility, efficiency and productivity. Jessica Tan, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore, said, “Microsoft is excited to partner DBS in its digital transformation as it leads the adoption of cloud technologies in the financial services industry here in Singapore. This leap will strengthen DBS’ mission to be Asia’s Safest and Asia’s Best as they build a more productive and collaborative workplace.”