Microsoft Partner Summary - September 30th - October 4th, 2024

Hello, Microsoft, Global Partner Community and welcome to this week's Partner Summary for September 30th – October 4th, 2024?

Blog: Hyperscale Your Enterprise Business Applications with Microsoft Dataverse?

Over the past three years, the annual growth rate of enterprise data within Fortune 500 companies has been remarkable, driven by an exponential increase in data generation and the strategic imperative to leverage data analytics. The volume of data continues to grow as enterprises build and deploy new applications within their organizations. IDC has predicted that 1 billion applications will be built over the next 4 years, each of which will generate data that must be ingested, transformed, activated, and managed.??

The accelerating growth in data volume, coupled with its siloed nature, makes deriving insights costly and time-consuming. As a result, enterprises must improve data access to drive productivity and efficiency across different business teams. However, they face seemingly insurmountable hurdles when their data is contained in disparate sources. Beyond the inherent challenges posed by data silos, every enterprise is acutely aware of the security risks it faces due to the rise of active targeting by global threat actors, making security a non-negotiable priority. IT must safeguard data while enabling the enterprise to manage it at scale without redundancy or increased costs.?

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Microsoft News:?

• Microsoft October 2024 news - Link?

• An AI companion for everyone - Link?

• Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series - Link?

• The next step in Bing generative search - Link?

• Hyperscale Your Enterprise Business Applications with Microsoft Dataverse - Link?

• Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for Desktop as a Service for the second year in a row - Link?

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Microsoft news from around the world:?

• Microsoft UK: How learning Azure digital skills is giving underserved people new hope - Link?

• Microsoft Korea: KT-Microsoft, 'Giant Step' to Accelerate AI Innovation in Korea - Link?

• Microsoft Switzerland: New study shows substantial potential of artificial intelligence for the Swiss economy - Link?

• Microsoft Sweden: Microsoft Sweden presents the AI Initiative's Insight Council - Link?

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Microsoft Partner:?

• Top Stories: October 1, 2024 - Link?

• Americas Partner Skilling News: October 2024 Issue - Link?

• Accelerating cloud and AI adoption: What's new for Azure Innovate & Azure Migrate and Modernize - Link?

• Maximizing partner success with marketplace changes - Link?

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Microsoft Inside Track:?

• How we’re delivering demos in Microsoft 365 Copilot at Microsoft - Link?

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Microsoft Industry:?

Financial Services:?

• Elevating investment management tech: AI-powered leadership from BlackRock and Microsoft - Link?

Telecommunications:?

• Transforming telecoms with AI – Link?

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Microsoft Marketplaces:?

• Essential strategies and tools to maximize your marketplace growth - Link?

• Maximizing partner success with marketplace changes - Link?

Microsoft AppSource Marketplace:?

• New on Microsoft AppSource: September 10-20, 2024 - Link?

Microsoft Azure Marketplace:?

• New on Azure Marketplace: September 10-20, 2024 - Link?

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Microsoft 365:?

• Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for Desktop as a Service for the second year in a row - Link?

Microsoft Azure:?

• Drasi: Microsoft’s newest open-source project simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems - Link?

Microsoft Azure AI:?

• Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities - Link?

• Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series - Link?

Microsoft Bing:?

• The next step in Bing generative search - Link?

Microsoft Power Platform:?

• Hyperscale Your Enterprise Business Applications with Microsoft Dataverse - Link?

• Use Copilot to quickly filter, sort, and search canvas app galleries with SQL Server - Link?

• What’s new in Power Apps: September 2024 Feature Update - Link?

Microsoft Research:?

• Data Formulator: Exploring how AI can help analysts create rich data visualizations - Link?

Microsoft Security:?

• Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Securing our world—together - Link?

Microsoft Semantic Kernel:?

• Microsoft Hackathon: Project Micronaire using Semantic Kernel - Link?

Microsoft Teams:?

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2024 - Link?

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Microsoft Events:?

• Microsoft Ignite:?

Experience the latest innovations for AI transformation?

Discover solutions that help modernize and manage intelligent apps, safeguard data, and accelerate productivity, while connecting with partners and growing your community or business.?

• In Chicago November 19–22, 2024 Optional Pre-day: Afternoon of November 18, 2024? ?

• Online November 19–21, 2024? ? https://register.ignite.microsoft.com/??

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Microsoft Book Of News:?

• Microsoft Build 2024 Book of News - Link?

• Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News - Link?

• Microsoft Build 2023 Book of News - Link?

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Microsoft eBooks:?

• The Total Economic Impact? of Microsoft Power Automate - Link?

• Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide - Link?

• Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide for executives - Link?

• Microsoft Cyber Signals - Link?

• Digital Operations Signals Interest Form - Link?

• Configure, Adapt, Innovate: Overcoming supply chain challenges with composable solutions – Link?

• 5 Ways a Connected Seller Solution Improves Sales Performance - Link?

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Thank you for reading and your interest in this report?

John O’Donnell?

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