The skills gap is widening, and it is our collective responsibility to bridge it. Business leaders and professionals are exploring ways to build and enhance critical skills within their teams, and Microsoft is leading the charge. 

In addition to launching ambitious skill-building initiatives such as the upcoming Microsoft AI Skills Fest, we’re also eager to spotlight innovative organization like Founderz, a groundbreaking online learning platform that has gone from a bold idea to a leader in AI skilling in just a few years. Their story is worth sharing not only because of their emerging role in ensuring the workforce is prepared for the future, but because it’s a testament to the power of innovation, perseverance, and the impact of just one company believing in a vision.  

One “yes” can change everything 

Co-founders Anna Cejudo and Pau Garcia-Mila had a simple but powerful idea: what if online business education could capture the depth, collaboration, and networking of the world’s top business schools—but in a way that was scalable, accessible, and built for the AI-powered future? 

“We felt there is still a big gap between the experience we have when we go to an on-site business school—where you meet the best professors, the best content—and the way we learn online,” explained Pau Garcia-Mila, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder.

They spent years building the technology behind Founderz, investing in AI-powered learning models that would make online education engaging, interactive, and deeply effective. But by 2023, they were at a breaking point. Funding had run out, and they needed a breakthrough.

In a final effort, they sent three emails to companies at the forefront of AI—hoping one of them would see what they saw: a future where AI education was truly transformative. Only Microsoft responded. 

Founderz was accepted into the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, which provided access to industry-leading AI services, expert guidance, and essential technology to supercharge their growth. Entering the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub at Tier 4 also unlocked USD150,000 in Microsoft Azure credits, enabling the company to scale their platform, refine their AI-powered learning model, and start delivering high-quality AI education at scale. 

Today, Founderz itself is helping change lives.

“In 2024, we had roughly 10,000 users learning AI with Founderz,” recalled Anna Cejudo, co-CEO and co-founder. “By the end of the year, we were at 50,000. And now, by the beginning of March, we reached 100,000 users training in AI. The real revolution isn’t AI—it’s education,” added Anna, highlighting the fundamental role of learning in driving change. They’ve also become a Microsoft Training Services Partner, making the decision to offer training exclusively on Microsoft AI technology.  

AI skilling done differently 

Founderz is far from being just another online course provider. Pau, Anna, and their growing team are rethinking how AI is taught by blending structured learning with real-time collaboration, personalized AI-powered support, and a hands-on approach to applying AI in real-world scenarios. 

At the heart of the Founderz learning experience are high-quality, cinematic-style lectures. Unlike traditional online courses that rely on static, slide-based presentations, Founderz films its courses in a MasterClass-style format, featuring top AI experts from Microsoft and beyond. This approach allows learners to hear directly from the people shaping the future of AI. 

Expert content in student’s native language 

But Founderz goes beyond delivering engaging content—it’s about accessibility. A core mission is to provide top-tier AI education in students’ native languages. Next-generation lip-syncing technology ensures that learners experience AI-powered content seamlessly, without language barriers.

“I can watch a Responsible AI class from Microsoft’s Mihaela Vorvoreanu in my language,” says Pau Garcia-Mila. “She speaks in first person, saying, ‘When we built this Responsible AI model at Microsoft.’ I’d love to be able to learn from the source in my mother tongue.”

Small group collaboration  

While putting “thousands of people in a virtual room” enables Founderz to pay the best professors at a lower per-student cost, the company also sought to build a platform that supported meaningful collaboration. AI-powered tools match students into small, diverse learning circles, where they tackle real-world AI challenges, share insights, and build lasting professional networks. 

Multilingual student support around the clock 

To further support its rapidly growing user base, Founderz’ team of AI-powered teaching assistants or “Fellows” provide real-time multilingual support, allowing learners to receive help in their native language while keeping operations efficient for the human support team.  

As Pau Garcia-Mila explained, “The Fellows are speaking any language in the world, but our human team sees everything in English,” ensuring seamless interaction across different languages. 

These AI-powered teaching assistants provide real-time feedback, analyze student interactions, and escalate complex questions to human instructors when needed. Whether a learner is a complete beginner or an experienced professional, Founderz ensures they receive the support they need to succeed. 

Education means opportunity

Founderz’ journey from a bold idea to an emerging AI skilling leader is proof that AI education is more than just accessing information—it’s about unlocking potential. Its pioneering efforts continue to inspire countless organizations to embrace AI education and drive meaningful transformation worldwide.

As Anna Cejudo puts it, “Education means opportunity, and if we can deliver high-quality education to as many people as possible, we’re giving them the chance to change their lives and control their futures.” 

At Microsoft, we couldn’t agree more. Microsoft’s mission has always been about creating technology that empowers others to innovate and solve real-world problems. This holds true in the age of AI. Our commitment to skilling is not just about technology adoption, it’s about people development. Over the past year, Microsoft has trained and certified over 23 million people across more than 200 countries in digital skills, with the goal of ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to succeed in a world where AI will be commonplace and a natural extension of everything we do.  

Unlock the future—Join the Microsoft AI Skills Fest 

As part of our ongoing investment in global skilling, Microsoft is bringing AI skilling to everyone with the Microsoft AI Skills Fest—a global event designed to bring together customers and partners, tech and business professionals, and AI enthusiasts to help build the skills we all need to thrive in the AI economy.  

Beginning April 8, 2025, we’re kicking off the fun with an attempt to set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most users to take an online multi-level artificial intelligence lesson in 24 hours. After that, we’re inviting everyone to continue building their skills with 50 days to explore Microsoft’s AI apps and services.  

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Dragon Copilot is bolstered by our collaboration with healthcare industry experts across our extensive global ecosystem of trusted partners. We work with leading independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs), and cloud solution providers (CSPs) across the globe to help our customers drive better healthcare outcomes.

Unlock new AI use cases with Dragon Copilot

Partnering with Microsoft allows organizations to tap into Dragon Copilot to accelerate innovation and unlock new avenues for future business growth through the Microsoft commercial marketplace.

Dragon Copilot’s trusted AI models are trained on healthcare data, providing a host of AI solution possibilities. Partners can build even stronger healthcare solutions and offerings by leveraging a comprehensive end-to-end toolchain—including Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. Plus, a single integration to Dragon Copilot extends a partner’s AI clinical use cases throughout the entire Microsoft Azure ecosystem, opening new opportunities for innovation and collaboration.

Embrace innovation with responsible AI

Dragon Copilot’s new capabilities are built on a secure data estate and incorporate healthcare-specific clinical, chat, and compliance safeguards for accurate and safe AI outputs. They also align to Microsoft’s responsible AI principles to help guide AI development and use—transparency, reliability and safety, fairness, inclusiveness, accountability, privacy, and security. We remain committed to developing responsible AI by design and ensuring that these technologies positively impact both the healthcare ecosystem and broader society and will share our learnings on this journey with our customers.

Driving better healthcare outcomes together

Our healthcare partner ecosystem is constantly growing, highlighted below are just a few of the more than 30 major partners already working with Microsoft. We’re committed to advancing AI innovation in healthcare together with a diverse partner community that spans regions, partner types, and specialties.

Independent software vendors

Dragon Copilot empowers ISVs with trusted AI models to create innovative AI-powered use cases, along with opportunities for new revenue channels through the extensibility framework. Several of our industry-leading ISV partners—including MEDITECH, ChipSoft, Dedalus, Canary Speech, and Softway Medical Group—are helping bring Dragon Copilot to life.

Leading U.S.-based electronic health provider (EHR) provider MEDITECH is embedding Dragon Copilot into their Expanse EHR solution to improve clinical workflows.

“We understand the challenges clinicians face today, and Dragon Copilot represents a significant step forward in alleviating those burdens. Integrating this innovative solution directly into Expanse streamlines documentation and ordering processes, reduces cognitive overload, and ultimately empowers providers to deliver superior, more patient-centered care. At MEDITECH, we’re proud to partner on solutions that prioritize both efficiency and clinician well-being.”

—Cathy Turner, Chief Marketing and Nurse Executive, MEDITECH

ChipSoft, an EHR provider serving Dutch-speaking markets, is integrating new healthcare AI applications into their EHR solution HiX using Dragon Copilot to address the growing demand for digital solutions that reduce the workload of healthcare professionals.

“We are excited to bring this cutting-edge AI platform to healthcare professionals, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively. With the availability of AI in HiX, we take an important step in supporting healthcare professionals with their administrative burden. This helps to keep healthcare accessible despite increasing demand and ongoing staff shortages.”

 —Hans Mulder, CEO of ChipSoft

European electronic medical record (EMR) market leader Dedalus, based in Italy, is integrating Dragon Copilot into their EMR solutions, providing clients with healthcare IT innovations that enhance clinical efficiency and improve patient outcomes.  

Additionally, Canary Speech, a US-based leader in voice AI, sees Dragon Copilot as an opportunity to integrate their innovative voice technology with Microsoft’s robust cloud and AI capabilities, driving advancements in early disease detection, mental health assessment, and overall patient care.

“Microsoft’s commitment to working with partners is helping drive digital transformation in healthcare. [The investments Microsoft is making into its partner ecosystem] are helping us transform our business to deliver impactful, human-centered solutions.”

—Henry O’Connell, CEO and co-founder of Canary Speech

French healthcare enterprise resource planning (ERP) system provider Softway Medical Group provides solutions that focus on the needs of the user, including improving the quality of life of nurses at work, optimizing care processes, increasing organizational efficiency, and improving quality of care.

“We are committed to serving healthcare professionals, designing digital solutions that enable them to make informed decisions, while preserving their well-being and providing quality patient care. Partnering with Microsoft allows us to respond to the major challenges faced by healthcare organizations by providing innovative tools and applications.”

—Sherley Brothier, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Softway Medical Group

System integrators

With powerful AI infrastructure and technology that works across EMRs, Dragon Copilot provides SIs with a strong foundation for new AI use cases and integrations. Our SI partners such as Accenture-Avanade, Kyndryl, and Cognizant, to name a few, are at the forefront of AI innovation.

To boost clinician productivity and provide better patient services, the Accenture-Avanade partnership uses generative AI capabilities powered by Microsoft Copilot for patient medical history summarization, patient response drafting, and intelligent search.

“As a Dragon Copilot partner, we recognize its potential to transform the clinical experience through seamless EHR integration and continuous support for clinicians. In an industry facing staffing shortages and burnout, Dragon Copilot has the potential to alleviate administrative burden, enhance clinician-patient interactions and increase access to care.”

—Tejash Shah, M.D., Managing Director and Global Care Reinvention Lead, Accenture Health

Additionally, Kyndryl—the world’s largest IT infrastructure provider—co-creates solutions to help healthcare organizations reach their peak digital performance.

“Today’s announcement marks a significant milestone in Kyndryl’s commitment to optimizing clinical workflows and improving patient care through ambient listening with advanced AI technology. We’re thrilled to be a Microsoft partner as we work to address clinician burnout and improve the overall healthcare experience. By automating routine tasks, we can help clinicians reclaim valuable time to spend with their patients, bringing the joy back into care.”

—Trent Sanders, Vice President for U.S. Healthcare and Life Sciences, Kyndryl

Cognizant plans to integrate Dragon Copilot into its TriZetto Provider Solutions with the goal to provide their clients with state-of-the-art capabilities to streamline documentation and improve efficiencies.

“This innovative solution represents an opportunity for us to help our clients transform the way they provide care. Dragon Copilot’s integrated AI technologies aim to enhance operational efficiency, reduce clinician burnout, and improve patient care. This partnership with Microsoft will underscore our commitment to driving innovation in healthcare and delivering exceptional value to our clients.”

—Dr. Scott R. Schell PhD MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Cognizant

Cloud solution providers

Dragon Copilot enables CSPs to reach new markets by leveraging robust AI infrastructure and technology that works across EHRs and EMRs to create innovative service offerings. We’re partnering with trailblazing CSP partners—including CDW, ORdigiNAL, and Clinically Speaking—to boost efficiency in healthcare with Dragon Copilot.

Combined with the power of Microsoft AI, IT solution provider CDW aims to transform the healthcare landscape by providing services that improve efficiency, enable timely decision-making, and empower providers to deliver superior patient care.

“Clinician burnout is a major problem for healthcare organizations and patient experience. Recognizing the strain that clinicians face in their daily routines, we’re proud to partner with Microsoft in the exploration of innovative solutions that address the root causes. By automating routine tasks, clinicians can redirect their efforts toward more critical aspects of patient care.”

—Mike Grisamore, Vice President of Healthcare, CDW

A global value-added distributor based in the Netherlands, ORdigiNAL empowers healthcare organizations with the tools to improve operational efficiency and patient experience.

“At ORdigiNAL, we recognize the critical need for technology that supports clinicians without disrupting their workflow. By partnering with Microsoft on Dragon Copilot, we are bringing an AI solution to healthcare professionals worldwide, helping them improve care quality, increase efficiency, and enhance patient outcomes.”

—Jordy Onrust, CEO and owner of ORdigiNAL

EHR solution provider Clinically Speaking is looking forward to integrating the ambient and generative AI capabilities of Dragon Copilot to advance their documentation solutions and improve healthcare provider office workflows.

“Combining our significant user base with the new AI and ambient recording capabilities from Microsoft, Clinically Speaking is uniquely positioned to deliver the maximum benefit from this new technology.”

—Michael Janas, President of Clinically Speaking

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Whether you want to build, integrate, migrate, extend, or sell with Microsoft, we’ll help you grow across our extensive global healthcare channel.

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• Access Dragon Copilot MAICPP Partner Resources—coming soon
• Explore Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions

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The latest AI innovations from Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, with our partners, empower patients, providers, payors, and life sciences organizations:

• Patients can access personalized care.
• Providers can deliver more efficient and effective care through advanced data analytics.
• Payors gain insights to improve operational efficiency and enhance patient outcomes.
• Life sciences organizations accelerate research and drug development processes.

Some specific examples of our investments include healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, which enables healthcare organizations to unify and centralize their data for scalable analytics and AI workloads. Additionally, we’ve invested in a new certified software designation for Solutions Partners in healthcare, and other industries, as part of the Microsoft Cloud for AI Cloud Partner Program. These designations certify that our partner solutions are optimally built on Microsoft Industry Clouds to deliver their solutions.

Together, we’re seizing the remarkable opportunity that AI presents in healthcare, propelling the industry towards a transformative future.

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Microsoft at HIMSS24

We were proud to showcase the remarkable work of our featured partners at HIMSS24. Teladoc Health shared how they are enabling connected care through virtual care solutions from inpatient to home—bridging virtual and in-patient care and at-home condition management. TCS showcased how they’re reducing the time it takes to respond to health authorities for regulatory submissions with AI, while providing an intelligent dashboard for real-time feedback to deepen patient understanding. Other partners we featured at the event throughout the week included Sectra, Hitachi Solutions, Accenture-Avanade, Quisitive, and HITRUST.

Additionally, 10 groundbreaking startups joined us, including BeekeeperAI, Mapped, and Pangaea Data. Partners such as CDW, Nordic, Kyndryl, BDO, and Vervint, demonstrated the significance of data and AI in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) on Microsoft Azure by guiding attendees on secure cloud migration, emphasizing high-quality care delivery that prioritizes patient needs. Each partner is reshaping the healthcare landscape by integrating enhanced solutions with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Copilot for Azure, and Microsoft Fabric. Our collaborations are deeply aligned to our focus of creating connected experiences, empowering the workforce, and unlocking the value of data across the healthcare landscape.

Partners leveraging AI to fuel innovation in healthcare

From revolutionizing patient engagement to streamlining clinical documentation and advancing drug discovery, partners are harnessing generative AI applications to help solve seemingly insurmountable challenges in healthcare.

To boost clinician productivity and provide better patient services, Accenture-Avanade are utilizing generative AI capabilities powered by Microsoft Copilot for patient medical history summarization, patient response drafting, and intelligent search. CitiusTech’s Smart Search leverages Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search to provide patients with round-the-clock query assistance and personalized responses, reducing the dependency on doctors—ultimately driving better patient satisfaction.

Additionally, Cognizant is infusing generative AI into healthcare administration to enhance productivity and efficiency for payers and providers, ensuring timely responses and improved patient care using Azure OpenAI Service and Semantic Kernel within the TriZetto® user interface.

“At Cognizant, we’re working closely with clients to understand and implement generative AI into their organizations, helping them unlock and expand value across the enterprise. Through this collaboration with Microsoft, we have infused generative AI capabilities into our TriZetto® platform, making it easier for healthcare organizations to realize the full potential of this groundbreaking technology.”

—Surya Gummadi, Executive Vice President and President, Cognizant Americas

In imaging and clinical documentation, Sectra’s Azure-optimized software as a service solution, Sectra OneCloud, revolutionizes enterprise imaging with scalability, security, and diagnostic capabilities to enhance care delivery and optimize clinical processes.

Several partners are also leveraging Fabric—an end-to-end, unified analytics platform that brings together data and AI—to modernize data estates and unlock powerful insights. For example, Hitachi Solutions is enhancing predictive care management, reducing operational costs, and strengthening data security and privacy with Lumada Empower Data Platform and Discern Health. Quisitive is uncovering actionable insights and driving greater efficiency with the development of MazikCare Copilot, which utilizes AI for care coordination, denial management, and gap assessments.

To better protect and govern data, HITRUST is establishing a foundation of privacy and security that enables the operationalization of responsible AI and establishes AI assurance and risk management. Commvault is providing powerful defense against threats by leveraging AI-driven automation and generative AI through their copilot, enabling seamless business continuity.

“At Commvault, our collaboration with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is at the forefront of providing robust defenses for the healthcare sector. By integrating AI and automation we’re not just improving the resilience of healthcare organizations, we’re transforming how they anticipate and neutralize threats.”

—Anna Griffin, Chief Marketing Officer, Commvault

Other powerful partnerships with organizations like GE Healthcare, Sophia Genetics, Andor Health, and Volpara are bringing innovations to customers and we’re proud to announce new advances alongside them.

And finally, we’ve recently announced a healthcare collaboration with NVIDIA that will harness the immense power of the cloud and cutting-edge AI to accelerate healthcare innovation. And we’ve partnered with Truveta to advance medical research with a groundbreaking solution that leverages AI to analyze patient data, helping to save lives.

We’re deeply committed to advancing together with our partner community, fueling new use cases and exploring impactful generative AI scenarios to deliver efficient care. Join us on this journey.

Learn more about healthcare solutions from Microsoft

To learn more about Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and our work with key partners:

• Visit Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
• Read Microsoft at HIMSS24: Shaping a healthier future with data and AI.
• Read Harness the power of data and AI in healthcare with new Microsoft solutions.
• Learn more about the Solutions Partner learning path, which includes Microsoft Learn documentation, a playbook, and an FAQ.

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Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services is unlocking new value for customers and helping partners deepen customer relationships. At Sibos 2023, we were proud to highlight the work of independent software vendors (ISVs), including Finastra, Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), LSEG, Symphony AI, Temenos, Trade Ledger, Traydstream, VeriPark, and Zafin, as well as global systems integrators (GSIs) like Accenture–Avanade and PwC. Each of these partners has done amazing work to create, implement, and enhance solutions tailored to the requirements and needs of financial services organizations.  

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Partners on the cutting edge of generative AI

This year, groundbreaking generative AI projects from our partners are proving the value of investing in new solutions.  

To explore new opportunities for payments, iGTB has showcased how they extract transactional insights from payment flows, opening up new horizons for the industry. In the complex domain of trade finance, Traydstream is addressing complexities head-on through the digitization and automation of trade processing, seamlessly integrating Microsoft technologies with their AI-powered platform. Finastra is modernizing its trade platform through a full microservices architecture using Microsoft Azure, that will give banks increased agility, flexibility, and scalability, enabling them to continue to provide service excellence to customers throughout their modernization journey.

In the realms of financial risk and crime, Symphony AI, ASC Technologies, and Temenos are forging innovative solutions to enhance security. Temenos, specifically, is combatting money laundering while facilitating secure international payments. Symphony AI is using generative AI to power-up investigative processes and teams. And Trade Ledger is using generative AI to create new channels for commercial banks and support working capital management decision making across small and medium-sized businesses. 

Amid the array of innovations showcased at this year’s event, we also presented demonstrations of an integrated copilot experience tailored for asset management. This new user journey spans analytics, workplace services, and data intelligence, offering a comprehensive and dynamic experience.

Our partner ecosystem continues to grow

The partner ecosystem for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services continues to grow and evolve with continued innovation with Microsoft technologies. As applications of AI capabilities rapidly expand, our financial services partners are finding new ways to build customer trust with responsible AI, meet customer demands, offer transparency, and deliver groundbreaking solutions that drive industry best practices forward.  

“Customers are eager to transform their trade finance and supply chain offerings, and to access the latest innovations, working with partners across the ecosystem. Partnering with Microsoft builds on our joint strategic vision to help accelerate the digital transformation of financial services, and support customers on their journeys.”

—Isabel Fernandez, Executive Vice President for Lending at Finastra.

Through powerful partnerships, organizations can bring innovations to their customers, faster than ever.  

And at iGTB, Chief Executive Officer Manish Maakan says that, together with Microsoft, they are “piloting a roadmap that unlocks the potential [of] artificial intelligence in financial services and seeks to showcase the transformative capabilities of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in the commercial banking space.”  

According to Craig Ramsey, Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide, “By hosting ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud in Microsoft Azure, financial institutions will now have access to an award-winning, end-to-end solution to enable their processing of 24/7 payments.” This provides simplicity of operations and promotes interoperability. 

Make the most of Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services

Discover the optimal technology solution for your organization through our array of ISV, system integrator (SI), and advisory partners.

Our financial services partner ecosystem remains dedicated to empowering our customers, enabling them to provide exceptional customer experiences, streamline their operations, and explore new avenues for growth. Our commitment includes ongoing investments in flexibility and extensibility within Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, fostering the expansion of our partner network.

To continue providing the capabilities our partners need, Microsoft announced a set of new solution partner designations under the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP) at Microsoft Inspire 2023. These designations certify that our partner solutions are optimally built on Microsoft Industry Clouds to deliver their solutions.

We eagerly anticipate announcing more ISV partner solutions in the coming months as part of this program. We look forward to welcoming our industry partners.

New possibilities are always emerging

As financial institutions embrace cloud technology, they unlock numerous benefits. This includes harnessing standardized data models for innovative business paradigms, customer-centric experiences, and future growth. They also explore AI integration with confidence in Microsoft Cloud’s secure solutions.

In this AI-driven era, we’re deeply committed to advancing together with our partner community. We’ll build on innovations, work closely with financial services partners to identify use cases, and explore generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services partners can create novel solutions and elevate existing ones, leveraging the Microsoft Cloud platform. This collaborative effort is about more than just business; it’s about empowering our end customers to achieve a smarter, more interconnected future in financial services—delivering distinctive and exceptional value.

For more inspiring partner news and engagement opportunities, look for Microsoft and our partners at Money 20/20 and InsureTech Connect (ITC), where you can go deeper into AI innovations built on Azure OpenAI Service and our copilot offerings. 

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• Review Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services partner assets.

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Helping retailers become resilient represents a tremendous opportunity for our partners. Using Microsoft Cloud for Retail, they can create solutions that extend their capabilities in ways that drive resiliency. We saw that at the NRF show, where our Microsoft Cloud for Retail partners such as Aifi, Accenture|Avanade, EY, and others showcased key solutions to enable intelligent stores and frontline worker-assist solutions.

How Microsoft and our partners create resilient retailers

At the NRF show, we introduced two new capabilities that make Microsoft Cloud for Retail even more powerful:

1. Smart Store Analytics. We provide retailers with e-commerce-level shopper analytics for the physical space. And we are partnering with AiFi, the world’s most broadly deployed computer vision-powered autonomous store operator, with 100 locations deployed worldwide. AiFi’s “smart stores” are retail stores equipped with cameras that track what customers pick up and place in their carts, automatically charging their payment cards when they’re ready to check out. Zabka, a chain of Polish convenience stores, also uses AiFi to give store managers access to data from the AiFi platform and helps them adjust store layouts and inventory.
2. Store Operations Assist​. Retail always has been and always will be a “people business.” Store Operations Assist equips store associates to better serve and engage customers and be more productive. It provides a single pane of glass with access to all the operational day-to-day activities—from curbside fulfillment to customer service scenarios in the physical store. Accenture|Avanade is delivering AI-powered insights with ai.RETAIL, a data insight solution integrated with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams for frontline workers, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 products. EY, meanwhile, has launched a retail solution that builds on the Microsoft Cloud for Retail to deliver an improved customer journey and higher sales.

Partners put our cloud to work

Retailers have powerful allies in our robust partner network. Like our other industry clouds, the partner ecosystem for Microsoft Cloud for Retail continues to grow and evolve quickly. For that, I want to thank all of the partners that helped us have a successful NRF show, including:

• Accenture|Avanade: ai.RETAIL
• Aifi: Aifi Autonomous Shopping
• Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder Order Management
• Cooler Screens: Cooler Screens
• DXC Technology: DXC Merchandise Planning & Forecasting
• EY: EY Retail Intelligence
• Flintfox: Flintfox Intelligent Pricing Retail
• Fractal/Neal Analytics: Fractal-Asper
• Kyndryl: Cloud-based insights
• SAS: SAS Intelligent Planning Cloud
• SES-imagotag: V:Cloud
• Shopic: Shopic – Frictionless Shopping Experience
• Sitecore: Sitecore Content Hub^TM
• Tata Consultancy Services: TCS Optumera^TM
• Wipro: Wipro Endless Aisle

Today we are partnering with leading independent software vendors and system integrators to help retailers become more resilient. Using Microsoft Cloud for Retail—including the new Smart Store Analytics and Store Operations Assist capabilities—retailers can navigate the headwinds they face and create an innovative retail future.

If you’re a retailer, find all the right solutions for your retail company today at the Microsoft Cloud for Retail Appsource Gallery. Our cloud is designed to help you embrace innovation, create retail-specific industry processes, and accelerate time to value.

If you’re a prospective partner, learn how to join our network and boost your business.

New retail possibilities

Moving to the cloud creates incredible opportunities across the retail industry. It helps retailers take advantage of common data models and makes them better able to put their data to work, apply intelligence, extract insights, and deliver better customer and employee experiences. Make your move to the Microsoft Cloud for Retail today!

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• Get our e-book: Framing the Future of Retail: Realizing the Power of Data
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