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AI can help your organisation make better decisions and improve your outcomes. However, key to this is laying the groundwork that empowers employees to use and understand AI. In this free e-book, Microsoft shares how AI has helped it: •Enable intelligent marketing lead scoring and qualification. •Increase the sales conversion rate with lead prioritization. •Enhance customer service with sentiment analysis. •Predict late payments and automate responses to questions. •Create a culture that supports innovation across all teams. Gain insights and inspiration for your journey with AI. Read More...

As the world transitions to a net zero carbon future, the industries in which Rolls-Royce operates are some of the most critical – but they are also some of the hardest to abate. However, its employees have an exciting role to play in helping airlines reduce the carbon they produce. Rolls-Royce understood that the power to optimise carbon output lay in processing, modelling and interrogating flight data. Rolls-Royce turned to Microsoft Azure for the compute power required. Combining this with Microsoft Power BI enabled Rolls-Royce to serve new data insights to the engineering team. Sadaf Shah, Software Engineer at Rolls-Royce, says, “Last week, we managed to run 100 billion flights in Databricks on the Azure platform – this is just incredible.” Rolls-Royce can use these insights to not just help their customers deliver a net zero future, but to also drive performance improvements, allowing their teams to innovate at pace. Read More...

Data is your most valuable asset. However, you can only truly recognise its value once you connect and manage your data in a cohesive fashion. What happens when you enable a digital feedback loop within your organisation, your data and analytics, and the intelligence it creates? The foundations for a successful digital modernisation. This blog, by Microsoft UK’s Chief Data Officer Robin Sutara shares how organisations can empower employees by unifying its analytics and data architecture and applying AI to enable better decision making. Read More...

According to Capgemini nearly nine out of 10 organisations have experienced an ethical issue around AI. With increasing reputational and regulatory focus on AI and data, organisations need to build and maintain trust. To do this, leaders need responsible AI and data principles and foster a diverse and inclusive culture. Learn the six principles and how to implement them: -Fairness -Inclusivity -Reliability and safeness -Transparency -Privacy and security -Accountability In this blog, Microsoft UK’s Chief Data Officer, Robin Sutara shares how organisations can build their own AI governance. Read More...

Energy company bp is fully committed to sustainability goals, including making the transition to net zero carbon by 2050 or sooner. A key step in this journey is to create digital twins of bp’s complex global assets on Microsoft Azure to identify opportunities for optimisation and carbon reduction. “By using this digital twin to look at both past data and predict future data, it’s invaluable,” says David Boyd, Facilities Process Engineer at bp. “If this was rolled out across bp assets, we have the opportunity to reduce emissions by around 500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year.” This is a key enabler in its transition from an international oil company to an integrated energy company. The security and scalability of Microsoft Azure is perfect for a digital twin project of such complexity. The IoT Hub receives over 250 billion data signals a month from bp’s operating assets globally. With the long-term goal of scaling this digital twin up across all bp’s global facilities, this secu...

In this blog, Microsoft UK’s Digital Advisor James Macgregor shares his tips to help your organisation on its data journey. He discusses what data-driven really means, the importance of having a data-driven culture and the four steps to take to build your organisation’s culture. Learn how to: -Create the right mindset -Find organisational and individual value -Build skills -Empower with the right tools Building a data-driven culture is not a one-off initiative, but a journey of continuous growth for employees and your organisation as a whole. Read More...

Malvern Panalytical designs, develops and commercialises analytical instruments across a wide range of industries and applications. By streamlining the process of instrumentation data onto one solution, they’re helping customers drive predictive maintenance and optimisation, while gaining their own valuable insights to optimise future product development. Neil Eatherington, Application Specialist and Standards Production at Malvern Panalytical, explains, “The AI can learn to predict and see where a problem might be way before the problem actually happens… For our customers, they can minimise downtime and make more money.” Read More...

Making confident decisions based on understanding key moments in time will help your organisation thrive. Improve your organisation’s flexibility with an analytics service that helps you make informed decisions quickly, share insights across your organisation and generate actionable predictions. Discover steps you can take now to strengthen your analytics programme in this guide. Read More...

Data-driven organisations are growing at an average of 30% or more annually. Making data-driven decisions with the right technology will help you make bold business moves with confidence. As a result, you’ll empower your employees, deliver better customer outcomes and stay agile in a fast-paced environment. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Business Lead Chris Adams shares how organisations can extract as much value from data as possible. Read More...

A data-driven digital strategy can help organisations create entirely new business models, improve the customer experience and drive revenue growth. Organisations of all sizes know their data is valuable for the future of the business and today. Also, AI and machine learning are the game-changers that will help you drive productivity and innovation. Today, 67% of organisations globally have already adopted AI, or plan to adopt it. The challenge is, how to realise its full potential as a strategic asset. In this webinar, Microsoft experts will share how you can build a strategy that empowers your employees to turn data into insights. Read More...

Element is a global business that provides specialist testing, inspection and certification services to a diverse range of businesses. Their shared service centre for the Americas processed around 9,000 invoices each month in 2019 by over 500 different vendors. By digitising and automating the process, they were able to give employees back time, reduce errors, save costs and uncover vital new insights to drive new innovation and value. Now they process 12,000 invoices a month and save around £330,000 a year. “Even within a month of working, we are seeing massive benefits and talking about rolling out into other countries. It just provides a visibility and transparency we never had before,” says Richard Vonk, Global IT Systems Architect. Read More...

The digital revolution is changing consumers’ expectations and accelerating innovation as technology blurs the boundaries between physical products and digital experiences. Companies that adopt technology that empowers them to know their consumers, deliver sustainable and operational excellence, connect their enterprise, and accelerate innovation, will outperform their competition. Sign up and stay connected to learn more about how organizations can enable secure collaboration to deliver execution excellence in the consumer goods industry. Read More...

To drive value from data, organisations must empower employees with the right culture and right tools. This can often be easier said than done – 83 percent of organisations want to be data-driven but only 30 percent have widespread use of data in decision making. In this e-book, IDC and Microsoft share how organisations can build the right conditions for a data-driven culture and the tools that will help empower employees to achieve more. Read More...