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Microsoft and Oracle have partnered to bring the best of both worlds together. OCI database services are now available in Azure. This partnership helps organizations meet their evolving needs and empowers customers to create new value in the cloud. With this integration, users can seamlessly build Azure applications with the high performance, high availability, and automated management of Oracle database services, such as Exadata and RAC, running on OCI.
With 139 million consumers between the ages of 15 and 55, brands are increasingly looking to cater to the population in Tier 2 and 3 cities, Akshara Srivastava reports for Business Standard. The consumer base across India’s Tier 2 and 3 cities is now at par with Tier 1 cities, according to Kantar data. Aashish Shukla, consumer and market insights lead at ITC, says that companies need to rethink their strategies to tap into this segment. Of prime importance is customised communication to reach out to this consumer base and generate curiosity, he adds. What are the reasons for this surge in consumers in non-metro cities? Widespread use of smartphones, more internet penetration, higher incomes, and greater access to products, the report says. Reverse migration during the pandemic and increasing aspirations are also contributing factors, says Suraja Kishore, CEO at advertising firm BBDO. Not only Tier 2 and 3 cities, the rising demand for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in the rural market is another trend that companies are looking to leverage, Manish Aggarwal, Director at Bikano, Bikanervala Foods, writes in an article for The Economic Times. In fact, the rural market now contributes around 39% of total FMCG sales across the country, according to estimates by Nielsen. Rural areas are emerging as growth drivers due to their wider consumer bases, Aggarwal writes. However, challenges like transportation and the seasonality of demand remain, he adds. Source: Business Standard – https://lnkd.in/gQmHjyqG
The Economic Times – https://lnkd.in/gevqKSyR ✍: Abhiraj Ganguli
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Satya, this is an exciting vision for bringing helpful and responsible AI to Microsoft’s products. The seamless integration of Copilot across Windows, Office 365, Bing and Edge represents a major strategic investment in the future of AI. By baking it deeply into Microsoft’s daily solutions for consumers and businesses, you are positioning the company to lead and shape the coming AI revolution. If executed responsibly, Copilot could redefine how we interact with technology and transform human capabilities. It points to a future where AI assumes a collaborative, assisting role in our work and lives. Of course, it will be critical that Microsoft sets the highest bars for AI safety, ethics and transparency as Copilot scales up. But the promise is enormous, and this technology could help unlock new levels of human productivity and creativity. Kudos to you and the team on this ambitious effort to put Microsoft at the forefront of our AI future. I’m excited to see Copilot and your expanded AI vision come to life for customers.
Microsoft and Oracle have partnered to bring the best of both worlds together. OCI database services are now available in Azure. This partnership helps organizations meet their evolving needs and empowers customers to create new value in the cloud. With this integration, users can seamlessly build Azure applications with the high performance, high availability, and automated management of Oracle database services, such as Exadata and RAC, running on OCI.
Microsoft and Oracle have partnered to bring the best of both worlds together. OCI database services are now available in Azure. This partnership helps organizations meet their evolving needs and empowers customers to create new value in the cloud. With this integration, users can seamlessly build Azure applications with the high performance, high availability, and automated management of Oracle database services, such as Exadata and RAC, running on OCI.
Austin, TX and Redmond, WA — September 14, 2023 — Oracle Corp and Microsoft Corp today announced Oracle Database@Azure, which gives customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and deployed in Microsoft Azure datacenters.
Oracle Database@Azure delivers all the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Database on OCI with the security, flexibility, and best-in-class services of Microsoft Azure, including best-in-class AI services like Azure OpenAI. This combination provides customers with more flexibility regarding where they run their workloads. It also provides a streamlined environment that simplifies cloud purchasing and management between Oracle Database and Azure services.
With the introduction of Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle and Microsoft are helping customers accelerate their migration to the cloud, so they can modernize their IT environments and take advantage of Azure’s infrastructure, tooling, and services. Customers will benefit from:
“We have a real opportunity to help organizations bring their mission-critical applications to the cloud so they can transform every part of their business with this next generation of AI,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “Our expanded partnership with Oracle will make Microsoft Azure the only other cloud provider to run Oracle’s database services and help our customers unlock a new wave of cloud-powered innovation.”
“Most customers already use multiple clouds,” said Larry Ellison, Oracle Chairman and CTO. “Microsoft and Oracle have been working together to make it easy for those customers to seamlessly connect Azure Services with the very latest Oracle Database technology. By collocating Oracle Exadata hardware in Azure datacenters, customers will experience the best possible database and network performance. We are proud to partner with Microsoft to deliver this best-in-class capability to customers.”
Multicloud Made for Customers
The new service delivers a fully integrated experience for deploying, managing, and using Oracle database instances within Azure. It enables organizations to drive breakthroughs in the cloud using their existing skills to leverage the best of Oracle and Microsoft capabilities directly within the Azure portal.
The new service is designed to eliminate customers’ biggest challenges in adopting multicloud architectures, including disjointed management, siloed tools, and a complex purchasing process.
As a result of this expanded partnership, customers will have the choice to deploy their Azure services with their fully managed Oracle Database services all within a single datacenter, including support for Oracle Exadata Database services, Oracle Autonomous Database services, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Oracle and Microsoft have also developed a joint support model to provide rapid response and resolution for mission-critical workloads.
Additionally, Oracle and Microsoft have significantly simplified the purchasing and contracting process. Customers will be able to purchase Oracle Database@Azure through Azure Marketplace, leveraging their existing Azure agreements. They will also be able to use their existing Oracle Database license benefits including Bring Your Own License and the Oracle Support Rewards program.
“As we continue our digital transformation through innovation and technology, interoperability across cloud service providers to enable safe, secure, and rapid financial transactions for our 40 million customers is paramount,” said Mihir Shah, enterprise head of data, Fidelity Investments. “Today’s announcement displays how industry leaders Microsoft and Oracle are putting their customers’ interests first and providing a collaborative solution that enables organizations like Fidelity to deliver best-in-class experiences for our customers and meet the substantial compliance and regulatory requirements with minimal downtime.”
“Data is the lifeblood of any business, and the cloud is the best way to analyze it so that insights become actionable,” said Magesh Bagavathi, senior vice president and global chief technology officer, PepsiCo. “As one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world with a market value of over 200 billion U.S. dollars, the ability to run our mission-critical systems and associated data in the cloud with Oracle Database@Azure gives us a scaled strategic advantage across our global operations.”
“We are looking to our technology partners to support Vodafone’s strategic focus on customers, simplicity and growth across Europe and Africa,” said Scott Petty, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone. “This new offering from Oracle and Microsoft does that by enabling us to deliver innovative and differentiated digital services faster and more cost effectively to our customers.”
“As a global leader in the financial services industry, Voya has harnessed the power of digital transformation to help provide the best experience for our customers and employees. As we continue to bring our business applications to the cloud, cloud partnerships have the potential to help the entire industry maintain better security, compliance, and performance, helping to accelerate the development of new technology products, solutions, and services that enhance customer experience and help achieve better financial outcomes,” said Santhosh Keshavan, executive vice president and chief information officer, Voya Financial, Inc.
Oracle will operate and manage these OCI services directly within Microsoft’s datacenters globally, beginning with regions in North America and Europe.
For more information on how to get started with Oracle Database@Azure, visit our Microsoft and Oracle solutions page.
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“Safe Harbor” Statement: Statements in this press release relating to Oracle’s future plans, expectations, beliefs, intentions and prospects, including statements regarding expected benefits of Oracle Database@Azure and its best-in-class capability, are “forward-looking statements” and are subject to material risks and uncertainties. Risks and uncertainties that could affect our current expectations and our actual results, include, among others: our ability to develop new products and services, integrate acquired products and services and enhance our existing products and services; our management of complex cloud and hardware offerings, including the sourcing of technologies and technology components; significant coding, manufacturing or configuration errors in our offerings; risks associated with acquisitions; economic, political and market conditions; information technology system failures, privacy and data security concerns; cybersecurity breaches; unfavorable legal proceedings, government investigations, and complex and changing laws and regulations. A detailed discussion of these factors and other risks that affect our business is contained in our SEC filings, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors.” Copies of these filings are available online from the SEC or by contacting Oracle’s Investor Relations Department at (650) 506-4073 or by clicking on SEC Filings on the Oracle Investor Relations website at www.oracle.com/investor/. All information set forth in this press release is current as of September 14, 2023. Oracle undertakes no duty to update any statement in light of new information or future events.
Frontline workers represent the face of organizations and make up the lion’s share of the workforce. But new Work Trend Index data reveals that 1 in 2 frontline workers cite being burned out in their jobs. Investing in technology that supports the frontline is key. Notably, 65% of frontline workers are optimistic that AI will help them in their jobs.
We are excited to highlight new Microsoft solutions and investments in next-generation AI for the frontline workforce across nearly every business. Frontline managers and workers can optimize their time from work order creation to schedule management with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service and the new Shifts plug-in for Microsoft 365 Copilot. In Viva Connections, frontline workers can stay up-to-date on internal communications. And with shared device mode for Intune, VMware and SOTI, employees can simplify the sign-in experience securely.
Today’s announcements not only reduce administrative burden and time on spent on manual tasks, but also enable frontline workers to focus on end customer experiences and receive an overall improved employee experience. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e9Ash_82
DENVER, Colo., and REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 30, 2023 — Lumen Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LUMN), a multinational technology company, is working with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot to empower its approximately 30,000 employees. Lumen is beta-testing Microsoft 365 Copilot as a part of the Early Access Program (EAP). The company has already seen the benefits of equipping some of its teams with Microsoft’s large language model (LLM) AI solutions, with plans to deploy the tech more broadly in the future.
“We are thrilled to be leading the early deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot at Lumen Technologies,” said Kate Johnson, president and CEO, Lumen Technologies Inc. “Giving our workforce the digital tools they need to deliver dramatically improved customer experiences with greater ease is an essential part of our company transformation. Our people are seeing immediate productivity improvements with Copilot, allowing them to focus on more value-added activities each day.”
Microsoft 365 Copilot can disrupt the telecommunications industry by providing employees with a tool to help enhance creativity, productivity and skills with real-time intelligent assistance. It has the potential to significantly improve employee productivity by automating tedious tasks and providing powerful tools for data analysis and decision-making. With features such as meeting summaries in Microsoft Teams and Copilot enhancements across Outlook, PowerPoint and other Microsoft 365 apps, employees can get back important time to deliver on strategic priorities.
Customer service teams at Lumen are using Copilot to surface relevant policies, summarize tickets or easily access step-by-step repair instructions from manuals. Sales and customer experience teams are using Copilot to add depth and context to customer communications and summarize actions and next steps. Across the board, teams are using Copilot to quickly create presentations, and for new business proposal and statement-of-work creation to deliver a consistent Lumen message and experience.
Lumen is among the first companies to start working with Microsoft 365 Copilot as one of the EAP adopters. Microsoft 365 Copilot combines the power of LLMs with data in the Microsoft Graph — calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and more — and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn words into a powerful productivity tool.
“Microsoft 365 Copilot has the power to revolutionize the way we work, enabling people to focus on what truly matters and drive their organizations forward,” said Deb Cupp, president, Americas Microsoft. “We are thrilled to be delivering this technology to innovative companies like Lumen to help them achieve their goals.”
As a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, Lumen is pushing the envelope when it comes to enhancing the customer experience. By harnessing the power of advanced AI technologies such as generative AI and AI language models through tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Lumen can provide their teams with the cutting-edge tools they need to succeed and drive their business forward.
About Lumen Technologies
Lumen connects the world. We are dedicated to furthering human progress through technology by connecting people, data, and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Everything we do at Lumen takes advantage of our network strength. From metro connectivity to long-haul data transport to our edge cloud, security, and managed service capabilities, we meet our customers’ needs today and as they build for tomorrow. For news and insights visit news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies, and YouTube: /lumentechnologies.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @Microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Frontline workers represent the face of organizations and make up the lion’s share of the workforce. But new Work Trend Index data reveals that 1 in 2 frontline workers cite being burned out in their jobs. Investing in technology that supports the frontline is key. Notably, 65% of frontline workers are optimistic that AI will help them in their jobs.
We are excited to highlight new Microsoft solutions and investments in next-generation AI for the frontline workforce across nearly every business. Frontline managers and workers can optimize their time from work order creation to schedule management with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service and the new Shifts plug-in for Microsoft 365 Copilot. In Viva Connections, frontline workers can stay up-to-date on internal communications. And with shared device mode for Intune, VMware and SOTI, employees can simplify the sign-in experience securely.
Today’s announcements not only reduce administrative burden and time on spent on manual tasks, but also enable frontline workers to focus on end customer experiences and receive an overall improved employee experience. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e9Ash_82
Frontline workers represent the face of organizations and make up the lion’s share of the workforce. But new Work Trend Index data reveals that 1 in 2 frontline workers cite being burned out in their jobs. Investing in technology that supports the frontline is key. Notably, 65% of frontline workers are optimistic that AI will help them in their jobs.
We are excited to highlight new Microsoft solutions and investments in next-generation AI for the frontline workforce across nearly every business. Frontline managers and workers can optimize their time from work order creation to schedule management with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service and the new Shifts plug-in for Microsoft 365 Copilot. In Viva Connections, frontline workers can stay up-to-date on internal communications. And with shared device mode for Intune, VMware and SOTI, employees can simplify the sign-in experience securely.
Today’s announcements not only reduce administrative burden and time on spent on manual tasks, but also enable frontline workers to focus on end customer experiences and receive an overall improved employee experience. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e9Ash_82
