June 20188 Any new technology which solves a business problem and improves the state of the industries through an apt digitalized business strategy, considering both business and technological aspects, fosters innovation. The agility of a company in the adoption of new strategic solutions as per the pace of innovation sets it aside from the competitors, creating business advantage. Usually, the monolithic architecture and its applications delay the structural changes required by organizations to bring change in processes to survive the changing business scenarios. The implementation of traditional ERP solutions could take one to three years, which makes changing any process a long cycle, ultimately slowing down the support system. With the cloud-based technology, creating a differentiated experience for the customers, partners, and employees becomes an underlying objective when considering the overall development of the organization. New cognitive technologies use conversational UI instead of traditional interfaces making room for innovation through automation and AI, and that is where Microsoft has played a significant role. It has launched services varying from advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, the Azure function services through the Azure platform to many services rendering native cloud databases. It has helped evolve the face of APIs. From the technologies which help in building bots to the conversational UIs those are mainly into speech recognition and the natural language processing areas, Microsoft has emerged with a broad portfolio of services aimed at helping the organization to build a native cloud application sourced system which is more agile and creates a difference.Impactful Initiatives and Evolution with Microsoft KPIT is one of the first few companies which started the cloud journey along with Microsoft toward the end of 2012. Initially, it was with SaaS-based applications, like Office 365, so we moved all the 12,000 users using MS Office to Office 365 to allow people to work from anywhere, anytime, and securely across applications like mailboxes, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Skype for business. TOO MANY COMPANIES, BUT ONLY ONE MICROSOFTBY MANDAR MARULKAR, CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER, KPITIN MY V EW
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