Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Achieve generative AI operational excellence with the LLMOps maturity model | Microsoft Azure Blog
The Azure LLMOps maturity model is more than just a roadmap from foundational LLM utilization to mastery in deployment and operational management. It is a strategic guide that is essential for navigating the ever-evolving AI landscape of AI.
Ready to achieve AI operational excellence? Contact Inner-City Cubes to put Microsoft's Azure LLMOps maturity model to work in your transformation.
Copilot in Teams and Intelligent recap | After the meeting
Watch this short demo video for a look at how quickly Copilot in Teams builds on the highlights available from Intelligent recap and helps you dig deeper into the meeting context so you can stay in sync on what comes next.
Ready to make Copilot in Teams a permanent member of your hybrid workforce? Inner-City Cubes can help you get started.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Introducing modern data governance for the era of AI
We are excited to announce a reimagined data governance experience within Microsoft Purview, available in preview April 8, 2024. Learn more.
A leadership view on deploying Microsoft Copilot for Security
In this Microsoft Security video, you'll hear from security experts that have used Microsoft Copilot for Security to enhance security staff knowledge, take on mundane SOC tasks, and free security leadership to focus on high-priority cybersecurity goals and challenges. Watch the video and contact us to discuss how Inner-City Cubes can help prevent security team burnout at your organization.
The Forrester Wave™: Sales Force Automation, Q3, 2023
Companies use sales force automation (SFA) to help them identify, win and retain customers. But SFA solutions offer different capabilities. In this Forrester Wave, analysts rate the top SFA vendors and list their strong points.
Read the report and see who came out on top. Hint: Microsoft ranked in the Leader category.
Siemens Teamcenter and Microsoft Azure solve the tough challenges with a modern PLM
Deployed on Azure, Siemens offers customers full visibility up and down the product lifecycle from planning to manufacturing to purchasing. Read their story for an in-depth discussion of how Siemens Teamcenter and Microsoft Azure AI are giving customers an edge over the competition, and enabling new, better products to roll out around the world. Contact Inner-City Cubes to future proof your PLM with Microsoft AI technology.
Monday, July 29, 2024
How to Safeguard your generative AI applications in Azure AI
With Azure AI, you have a convenient one-stop-shop for building generative AI applications and putting responsible AI into practice. Watch this useful video to learn the basics of building, evaluating and monitoring a safety system that meets your organization's unique requirements and leads you to AI success.
Microsoft 365 Copilot | Get up to speed
Watch this brief video to learn how Copilot can spare you embarrassment and keep you up to speed even when you log in late for a meeting.
Contact Inner-City Cubes to make Microsoft 365 Copilot a permanent Teams member.
Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security for AI at Microsoft Ignite
Do you have all the cybersecurity talent you need to ensure a fully functioning SOC? If you're like many companies, you have gaps in your cybersecurity team, thanks to a growing lack of cybersecurity professionals. This lack of talent, combined with the sophistication of many cyberattacks, is making AI-enabled security solutions much more advantageous. As this in-depth article shows, Microsoft has a range of AI-powered security solutions that can make your SOC run much more smoothly and effectively, even with fewer human cybersecurity staff. Read the article and contact us to discuss how Inner-City Cubes's team of experts can help close your cybersecurity talent gaps.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Acceleration Guided Tour
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales with the sales accelerator feature helps salespeople identify leads and get AI-based recommendations for sales activities to speed each deal.
Visit this Microsoft demonstration website to see all of the capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Sales Accelerator.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
What's new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Are you ready to go from GenAI experimentation to solutions at scale?
The AI era is here — and moving at warp speed rerouting technology roadmaps and dramatically accelerating transformation and value realization timelines. Microsoft is once again at the forefront of development and deployment of responsible AI. In this blog article, you'll take a deep dive into what's new in Azure Data, AI and digital applications. What's more, you will learn how by deploying Azure you can go from GenAI experimentation to solutions deployed at scale - and realize a substantial ROI in the process. Ready to make your move from AI experimentation to innovative AI solutions with Azure? Inner-City Cubescan help you get started.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Copilot in Teams: Discern Opinions Quickly
Watch this brief video for a demonstration of Copilot in Teams capability to discern and summarize quickly and concisely the concerns and perspectives of meeting participants.
Contact Inner-City Cubes to get started with Copilot in Teams.
New Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot innovations for supply chain, sales, and service join the 2024 release wave 1
Microsoft is announcing capabilities for Dynamics 365 that help professionals across business functions transform customer experiences. Learn more.
Northrop & Johnson sails to exponential growth with Microsoft Dynamics 365
This in-depth customer story examines how a world-leading superyacht brokerage, Northrop & Johnson, transformed its sales and services with Microsoft Dynamics 365, leading to double digit annual sales growth. Read the story and learn about the advanced features and innovative possibilities of Microsoft's AI-powered solutions for sales and marketing.
Analytics Lessons Learned: How five companies increased data value with unified analytics solutions
Even when well along on the journey to digital transformation, many organizations are still unable to extract timely and accurate insights from their data. How do they get back on the right track? Read this eBook about how unified cloud analytics help IT teams uncover new insights and explore data in a scalable, secure and timely manner.
Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR
If your cybersecurity team or SOC is overwhelmed, you should know about Microsoft's Defender Experts for XDR, a service that supports your in-house staff when needed. Powered by Microsoft's industry-leading Defender XDR suite, Defender Experts for XDR can help your security team to triage, investigate and respond to incidents and help stop attackers before they can get to your data. Download and read this Microsoft datasheet to get all the details.
Monday, July 22, 2024
INSPIRE Environmental uses Azure AI to improve efficiency and streamline data analysis to meet the pace of offshore wind development
INSPIRE Environmental (INSPIRE), is a Venterra Group company dedicated to monitoring seafloor health. Labor-intensive data collection and analysis was impacting the quality of data and jeopardizing the company's long-standing reputation for delivering timely and reliable results. Read the story for details on how INSPIRE used Microsoft Azure AI solutions to analyze complex ocean data more quickly and efficiently, lower costs and reduce turnaround times for clients. Contact Inner-City Cubes for more information on how Azure AI can streamline your transformation to the cloud.
Del Monte Foods improves system uptime by 99.99%, saves 57% on infrastructure, and reduces security risk by 50%
When leadership at Del Monte Foods Inc. saw that their existing cloud infrastructure was leading to higher maintenance costs, limited scalability and performance bottlenecks, the company turned to Microsoft Azure as a solution. Read this revealing customer story highlighting how Del Monte reduced infrastructure costs and increased system uptime with the help of Azure and the Microsoft Defender security stack.
Copilot in Teams: Ask Better Questions
When it's time to kickstart your brain cells into action, turn on Copilot for a list of insightful questions to ask in a pitch meeting or creative brainstorming session. Watch.
Microsoft Copilot for Security provides immediate impact for the Microsoft Defender Experts team | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant offers great opportunities for helping SOCs and other security professionals in their work. That's why the Microsoft Defender Experts team has been exploring ways in which Copilot for Security can help them to streamline and optimize SOC capabilities — from improving communication clarity to data analysis and upskilling.
In this article, Microsoft brings you a new series of short videos showing how Copilot is helping navigate threat detection, investigation, and managed response.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Accelerate cloud migration and modernize applications at your pace with Azure VMware Solution.
EPAM reimagines sales with Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot for Sales
EPAM Systems Inc., an engineering and cloud consulting firm realized it had a problem with fragmented sales processes. With global sales teams across 55 countries using a variety of sales applications, efficiency was a challenge - and complicated. To reduce complexity and improve efficiency, the company decided to consolidate sales processes and applications on one platform, choosing Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Copilot for Sales. In this customer story, EPAM shares its experience and the results it achieved. Get the story.
Top 5 reasons to migrate to Azure VMware Solution
There are a lot of good reasons to migrate your VMware workloads from your datacenter to Azure with Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
Get this infographic to see the top 5 reasons we think AVS is the optimal route to the cloud, and get in touch with Inner-City Cubes to see how we can help.
Monday, July 15, 2024
What is machine learning?
Processing mathematical models of data to help a computer learn without direct instruction is how machine learning (ML) is defined. However, as you probably know already, there's so much more to ML. See this instructive website by Microsoft Azure explaining how ML works to solve problems, how it's used in modern industry and how ML learning algorithms are developed.
Microsoft Teams: Building a Foundation for the Future
Teams has grown to serve over 320 million monthly active users across 181 markets and 44 languages. Today, more than 75% of monthly active users are using the new built-from-the-ground-up desktop app for Windows and Mac. But a new era is on the way.
Read this blog for a deep dive into the many investments Microsoft is making across the board in the fundamentals of Teams, setting a new standard for performance, reliability, and simplicity.
Contact Inner-City Cubes to get started with the new era of Microsoft Teams.
5 ways to secure identity and access for 2024 | Microsoft Security Blog
Cyber threats are rising rapidly with 30 billion attempted password attacks per month, according to Microsoft. AI is helping attackers by launching and automating new and sophisticated cyberattacks. The best defense is a comprehensive strategy that incorporates identity access management and Microsoft AI-powered CoPilot. Read this Microsoft article to get advice for protecting your organization from cyberattacks in 2024
Copilot for Sales Release Wave Video
This Microsoft video shows how Copilot for Sales can drastically speed up identification of leads, communications, meeting preparation and closing deals.
This video looks at the experiences landing in Dynamics 365 Sales and across Microsoft 365 and Teams Suite.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams provides a versatile, feature-rich integration platform for enterprises to streamline workflows, digitize and automate processes, and connect and empower employees across departments and locations to strengthen strategic alignment, engagement and productivity. Read this Forrester Analytic Report for everything you need to know about cost savings and business benefits enabled by Teams as a unified platform for communication and collaboration.
Download it today. Contact Inner-City Cubes with questions and comments.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
4 Strategies to Address the Biggest Challenges in Data Security
The rapidly growing volume of data, structured and unstructured, stored in diverse places makes data security more challenging than ever. In this eBook, you'll get a quick but advanced view of the top challenges in data security today and advice for overcoming them. Download your complimentary copy of the eBook to dissect the how and why of understanding and protecting data and defending against identity-based threats.
View: 4 Strategies to Address the Biggest Challenges in Data Security
Grupo Bimbo bakes in end-to-end data security and compliance with Microsoft Purview
This customer story video shows how Grupo Bimbo, a major player in the consumer goods industry, rigorously protects its trove of recipes and R&D assets.
Its vast store of sensitive data calls for greater visibility and safeguards to ensure compliance with regulations in the many countries where Grupo Bimbo operates. The company has addressed that need by implanting solutions from the Microsoft Purview family of data security, governance, risk, and compliance applications.
Watch it now!
The Benefits of Microsoft Copilot for Sales: How Microsoft transformed its sales organization with AI
Salespeople waste a lot of time on mundane tasks from data entry and reports to researching prospects. This eBook explains how Copilot, Microsoft's AI assistant, can help salespeople have more time to focus on customer relationships and on closing deals.
Download it here.
Microsoft named a Leader in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services
In today's rapidly changing tech environment, being recognized by an organization as prestigious as Gartner® calls for a celebration. Read this inspiring blog about how Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. The report showed that Microsoft had gone furthest in Completeness of Vision.
B.TECH scales retail operations and slashes time-to-market 30 percent with Microsoft Azure
B-Tech is an Egyptian retail giant specializing in household appliances and consumer electronics. Read how B-Tech used its digital transformation arm b_labs to build a competitive advantage with Microsoft Azure, boosted service availability to 99.9 percent, cut time to market by 30%. Bye-Bye Black Friday back-office blues.
Ready to build your competitive advantage with Microsoft Azure? Inner-City Cubes is ready too.
View: B.TECH scales retail operations and slashes time-to-market 30 percent with Microsoft Azure
Monday, July 8, 2024
Transform the way sellers work with Microsoft Sales Copilot
Now every salesperson can have an assistant to help them prepare for meetings, write reports, research prospects and enter data. Meet Microsoft Copilot for Sales, the AI assistant that can give your sales team more time to focus on selling. Watch this video to see how Copilot can help you and your team close more sales. 📺
Canopius enables data & AI innovation by building a strong foundation with Azure
What happens when a worldwide leader in insurance finds that its technology infrastructure is slowing down and preventing future innovation? Find out in this perceptive customer story about how Canopius migrated from dual data centers to the more agile, cost-effective environment of Microsoft Azure.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
What is Microsoft Copilot for Azure
Gain new insights, discover more benefits of the cloud, and orchestrate across both cloud and edge with the new Microsoft Copilot for Azure. Read this informational blog outlining what this innovative solution can do for your organization and it includes a link to give you a free preview.
Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are now generally available - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog
Your sales and service teams can now benefit from the AI assistance in Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Microsoft Copilot for Service. The AI enhancements will let your teams get role-specific insights and actions to streamline business processes, automate repetitive tasks, and have more time to focus on the important work.
Learn about these Copilot enhancements to your Microsoft sales and service platforms. Read this Microsoft article to get all the details.
What is the Right Way to AI?
Wondering how to get the most effective AI for your organization? You'll need a unique strategy to deploy and drive adoption. Check out this solution brief for the guidance you need to do AI the right way.
Contact Inner-City Cubes for assistance rolling out your AI adoption with Copilot.
Crash Course in Microsoft Purview
With ChatGPT and other AI-powered productivity applications in use in corporate America, companies need to pay attention to the data that is flowing through those AI applications. Safeguarding sensitive data requires a data management and governance plan. In this e-book, you'll learn how the Microsoft Purview data management platform delivers. Download and read the eBook and learn about Purview's platform-based approach that enables information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance across multicloud, multiplatform data estates.
Monday, July 1, 2024
AI Advantage: Driving sales performance with next-generation tools
AI can empower sellers to instantly surface the most critical data, generate new and original content and automate CRM tasks.
Read this eBook and learn how Microsoft's AI-enabled Copilot enables leaders to discover which sales efforts work best and helps sales staff be more effective.
View: AI Advantage: Driving sales performance with next-generation tools
Build your own copilot with Azure AI Studio
Copilots are quickly becoming known as a unique AI category that gives businesses the opportunity to get products and services quickly to market. Watch this informative video about how your organization can build custom copilots using Azure AI Studio, the platform where you can confidently apply the latest state- of-the-art and open-source models.
AI Data Drop: The 11 by 11 Tipping Point
Recently, Microsoft conducted a study of more than 1,300 early Copilot adopters across multiple industries to discover what their early behaviors could teach them about the good and bad effects of adopting and rolling out AI. Read this blog post for an analysis of what "the 11-by-11 tipping point" means for your Copilot users in terms of improved productivity, work enjoyment, work-life balance and the ability to attend fewer meetings. Ready to adopt and roll out AI? Microsoft Copilot expert Inner-City Cubes can help get you started.
Our commitments to advance safe, secure, and trustworthy AI
Microsoft announced its support for the Biden administration's program of voluntary vendor commitments to safer AI applications. The standards aim to ensure that AI systems are secure, and trustworthy.
Read about the AI commitments in this article by Microsoft.
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