Tag: Microsoft

August 15, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

Escalating App Store War Between Apple and Developers Likely to Bleed into Antitrust Probes in US and EU

Apple removes Fortnite, Epic Games’ popular battle royale game, from its App Store, and blocks “rival” game streaming platforms from iOS. Fortnite pretty much immediately filed suit, but there’s much more to unpack in this quest for a piece of the mobile game revenue pie. Note that last year 2.5 billion people played mobile games, propelling mobile game revenues to amount to nearly 75% of all in-app spending. 30% of that revenue is what Apple (and Google) are fighting to capture, at the expense, some would argue, of game developers.

PCs and Devices

August 7, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Futurum Tech Webcast

Cloud Announcements Indicate Continued Momentum to Cloud — Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Sarah Wallace and Daniel Newman cover recent announcements from major tech brands, indicating a continued momentum to cloud. HPE, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, IBM and Adobe, and IBM, Red Hat and SAP — all shifting into overdrive, many partnering in innovative ways, to help companies on their digital transformation journeys.

Cloud, Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 22, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Microsoft Outperforms For Its Fiscal Q4 Showing Tech Resiliency

Microsoft reported its first full quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic and the company overall delivered a solid performance once again.

PCs and Devices

July 22, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Research Note

Microsoft Inspire: Microsoft Makes New Investments to Drive Organizational Resiliency for Partners

At Microsoft’s Inspire event the company highlighted its Return to Workplace offering, with investments intended to help clients and partners build and enable resilient organizations around the world as we collectively shift to a digital first mindset. Already a significant player in the enterprise workforce, the continued strengthening of its various offerings, all designed to seamlessly work together, serve the myriad needs across the enterprise, as well as in the partner ecosystem, means that organizations don’t have to look outside the Microsoft solution set to do what it is they need to do. I would guess this makes other SaaS providers nervous, and rightfully so.

Digital Transformation

July 22, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

Allscripts and Microsoft Extend Cloud-based Health IT Partnership

Allscripts and Microsoft Corp. announces a five-year extension to their strategic alliance to enable the expanded development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions.

Cloud, Data Analytics, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Workplace Collaboration

July 21, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Microsoft Updates Dynamics 365 and Power Platform at Inspire

At this year's Microsoft partner event, Inspire, the company announced a series of important updates to dynamics 365 and the Power Platform

Cloud, CRM, Data Analytics, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 17, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Research Note

Google Announces Digital Job Training Program to Help with Economic Recovery

Grow with Google is designed to help jumpstart the economy by helping workers learn skills that will make them more appealing to employers (college degrees not required), and also to help employers fill what is often a gigantic skills gap. As part of this initiative, Google is offering grants, offering apprenticeship positions at Google, expanding its IT Certificate Employer Consortium and more. The future of work continues to be about an always-learning mindset, individually and in the business world, and this is another way Big Tech is stepping up to make that possible.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Workplace Collaboration

July 8, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Research Note

Microsoft Announces Launch of Global Digital Skills Initiative Serving 25 Million by Year End

Microsoft announced the launch of a global digital skills initiative serving 25 million by year end, in a move that is both as brilliant as it is benevolent — and that’s impressive. Here’s why.

Digital Transformation, Workplace Collaboration

June 26, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

IBM, Microsoft and Amazon Suspend Police Access to Facial Recognition Tech, Prompt US Lawmakers to Act

Earlier this month, Microsoft President Brad Smith explained that Microsoft would no longer “sell facial recognition technology to police departments in the United States until we have a national law in place, grounded in human rights, that will govern this technology.” This statement followed Amazon’s the previous day, in which it announced a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial Rekognition technology.

Digital Transformation

June 18, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

SAS Partners With Microsoft Azure To Bring Its Analytics to the Cloud

Ahead of its large annual conference SAS announced an extensive partnership with Microsoft to bring its analytics solutions to Azure Cloud.

Cloud, Data Analytics, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

May 19, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Microsoft Leans Further Into RPA With Acquisition of Softomotive

Microsoft has expanded its footprint in RPA with the acquisition of Softomotive, making the company a more critical player in Robotic Process Automation.