Johanna Winqvist
Microsoft, Modern Workplace
The retail industry contributes a significant portion to the GDP of many countries, employs tens of millions of people and touches nearly everyone.
In order to gain insight at a particularly volatile time for the industry, we recently conducted a survey with 100 retail executives to gain insight into their business challenges and learn about how they are currently using, or plan to use, analytics and the cloud to stay relevant with today’s consumers.
Retailers who continue to do business as they always have without evolving their business practices may soon find themselves outpaced and outmatched in a ruthlessly competitive marketplace.
We created this white paper, which includes insights gleaned from our survey of retail business executives, to provide guidance on evolving retail data business practices and challenges.
Do you get excited about data?
If you think about it as ones and zeros, soulless spreadsheets, forms and figures, probably not. But what if data could help make cancer and world hunger subjects that kids only learn about in history lessons a decade from now? What if it powered technology that understood our needs and worked proactively to meet them? […]
Leentje Chavatte
Microsoft, Data & AI and Digital Transformation
Climate-conscious utility companies are becoming data-smarter. Here’s why.
Ever been hit by a pang of guilt after realising someone accidentally left the lights on all day at home, wasting energy? Well, what if you were responsible for allocating power to 1.5 million homes instead? That’s a lot of lights and a lot of energy that needs to be optimised to be there when […]
Paul Shanahan
EMEA Digital Sales Director - Security, Compliance and Identity
Bringing auto-scaling to online retail
Underpinning the growth of the next generation of e-commerce unicorns, IRP trusts Azure as a secure, scalable platform on which to build. Belfast-based IRP offers a cloud-based eCommerce platform to growth-focused businesses, covering every stage of the customer journey from awareness through to conversion. It harnesses the power of Azure to enable data-driven growth […]
Bibhas Bhattacharya
Former Intelligent Cloud Business Group Lead
