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Microsoft Industry Blogs - Canada

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Making the store more compelling 

Powerful analytical data is becoming vital to retailers worldwide. We hear from AVA Retail’s Atul Hirpara about how sensors, depth-sensing cameras and more can provide the in-store analytics retailers need to transform the shopping experience.

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Supermarket of the Future 

As customers become more demanding, retailers are having to adapt – and fast. Understanding this, Italy’s largest supermarket chain, Coop Group, has teamed with Accenture, Avanade, Microsoft and Intel to create a remarkable new concept store which leverages some of the most innovative technologies available today

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Making the digital leap 

The retail industry is in the midst of a significant transformation, with digital technologies at the heart of the change. We find out how Microsoft and its partners are supporting retailers as they look to reinvent themselves and meet the needs of the modern consumer.

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Azure Blockchain as a Service Update #5 

STRATO Azure’s Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps: STRATO. TheSTRATO offering is a single-node blockchain instance, which acts as a developer sandbox for testing Ethereum blockchain applications and offers the STRATO RESTful API for connecting applications to private, semi-private (consortium) and public Ethereum blockchains. Combined with Bloc, the web application software development kit which supports

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A Worldwide Standard 

We hear from BIAN’s Hans Tesselaar about the progress the banking standards association is making to develop the most complete banking industry framework

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Digitization and IT Darwinism: Reinventing IT Leadership in 2016 

Around the world, companies and organizations – and the IT leaders who support them – are urgently re-inventing their cultures, skills, and measures of success to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital revolution. It’s certainly the case at Microsoft. Not convinced? Read on.