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Exploring the various ways that big tech is participating in the distribution and management of vaccine efforts, while also leveraging tech, resources, and community involvement to aid in support. A positive for society, and the companies involved.
Could Microsoft Viva’s plan to humanize the workplace be the key to boosting employee productivity, creativity, and retention? Seeing technology now being used to re-humanize the workplace, humanize workflows, and give people rather than systems more agency and initiative, seems to Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard to be a very positive and welcome change in the enterprise. Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform certainly appears to be aiming to deliver on that vision.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman take a look at Microsoft Viva, a newly launched Employee Experience Platform. Microsoft Viva is comprised of four basic components (today anyway), designed to facilitate connection, learning, topics/discovery, and insights, all designed to heighten and improve the employee experience, facilitate improved knowledge sharing, communication within the organization, teams, and groups, deliver insights designed to help employees and leaders, and provide learning management solutions that help facilitate creating a culture of continuous learning.
Microsoft Azure Quantum is now available for public preview allowing developers and researchers in all industries to experiment with the quantum computing platform. The preview is to help launch the quantum computing service as well as spur innovation in a variety of fields.
Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Cloud for Retail at NRF 2021, adding to the roster of the big cloud players’ vertical-specific platforms. The announcement highlights Microsoft’s focus on and commitment to helping brands enable ‘intelligent retail.’
In the wake of becoming independent from Huawei last year, the company is now free to work with U.S. chipmakers. While the company reports multiple partnership with key global chipmakers, Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard has his eye on Honor and Qualcomm and the ability of Qualcomm’s mid-range and budget SOCs as early as next year. Why? The Snapdragon platform’s ability to deliver mmWave-ready modems and complete SOCs across a range of price-points is an advantage that may prove difficult for Mediatek to overcome.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) announced Thursday brings together a number of stakeholders including tech giants Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce, the Commons Project Foundation, MITRE, along with healthcare major players like Cerner, Epic, Mayo Clinic, CARIN Alliance, Safe Health, Change Healthcare, Evernorth to develop a vaccine “passport” that enables individuals vaccinated for COVID-19 to access their vaccination records in a secure, verifiable, privacy-preserving way.
In exciting news from CES 2021, Verizon chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg, announced the company is placing massive amounts of computing power right at the edge of its 5G network and partnering with Microsoft and AWS on the deployment of its Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) concept. This effort is part of a collective effort to fuel smart city development and other innovation.
Red Hat buys cloud startup StackRox. This is the company’s first deal since the IBM acquisition in 2019 and focuses on bolstering Red Hat’s OpenShift Kubernetes and hybrid cloud capabilities.
When it comes to recruiting and hiring, there are some definite trends popping up in the age of the “new normal.” Is your company on track to stay competitive during these unprecedented times for talent planning?
The customer data platform (CDP) space continues to gain momentum as big tech and emerging software companies continue to pour resources into giving greater insights into customers through real-time data optimization. Here are some of the latest happenings and what they mean for CDP.
Apple is set to launch its next generation of MacBooks. For the first time since the surprise 2005 announcement by Steve Jobs that Apple was moving from PowerPC to Intel (x86), the company is set to take on chip-making responsibility for the Mac.

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