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HKTDC and Microsoft join forces to launch the “Go Beyond Your Limits” initiative targeted at local SMEs and next-gen talent

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HONG KONG, Oct 27, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Microsoft Hong Kong today announced a new partnership to jointly launch the "Go Beyond Your Limits" Programme to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and foster next-generation talent in Hong Kong by leveraging best-in-class technology, practical learning and various support measures. The programme aims to achieve two key goals. First, it will help Hong Kong's SMEs take tangible steps to pursue their digital transformation and seize new market opportunities under the new normal. Second, it will provide a series of learning opportunities for tertiary students in Hong Kong, helping to enhance their business-related digital skills and knowledge.Yvonne So, Director, HKTDC Corporate Communications & Marketing; Dr Patrick Lau, HKTDC Deputy Executive Director; Cally Chan, General Manager of Microsoft Hong Kong and Macau; Fred Sheu, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Hong Kong [L-R]Dr Patrick Lau, HKTDC Deputy Executive Director, said: "Our Transformation Sandbox (T-box) has helped more than 2,400 Hong Kong enterprises over the past two-plus years to realise di...

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InvesTech Holdings and Microsoft Jointly Launch Two Enterprise Digital Transformation Solutions

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HONG KONG, Aug 17, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - InvesTech Holdings Limited ("InvesTech Holdings", together with its subsidiaries, "the Group", Stock Code: 1087.HK), a leading integrated smart IT solutions provider in China, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Wafer Systems Limited ("Wafer Systems"), which owns the smart office software solutions flagship product Virsical, has started a new collaboration with Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft"; NASDAQ: MSFT) in the field of the modern workplace, jointly offering enterprises with digital transformation solutions.Jointly launching enterprise smart workspace solutions empowering the enterprises digital transformationWafer Systems and Microsoft joined hands to launch two distinctive enterprise solutions, namely "AIoT-based Smart Building Digital-twin Solution" and "Teams-based Digital Administrative Office Solution", to empower clients from various industries to undergo digital transformation. The Group and Microsoft aspire to force disruptive innovation to the traditional manpower-based management model, with an aim of delivering groundbreaking solutions to enterprises. As a digital administrative office solution, "...

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Fujitsu Recognized as Winner of 2022 Microsoft Education Partner of the Year Award

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TOKYO, Jun 29, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Fujitsu today announced that it has won the 2022 Microsoft Education Partner of the Year award. Fujitsu was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology."Fujitsu is thrilled to be recognized by Microsoft for our contribution working with clients and partners in supporting over a million students across North America. This helped improve learning environments for students from all different backgrounds to reduce the disruption in education caused by COVID." said Cathy McCann, Vice President Head of Trusted Society, Uvance Unit, Fujitsu. "This initiative underlines the important role we believe technology and global companies, such as Fujitsu and Microsoft, can play by working together to support educators worldwide, as they strive to improve education equity and access for everyone."The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various cat...

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Trintech Is the Only Financial Close Solution Provider with Certified Integrations Across All Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud ERP Platforms

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DALLAS, TX, Jan 27, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Trintech, a leading global provider of integrated Record to Report software solutions for the Office of Finance, expands its partnership with Microsoft by announcing its newest integration into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This expanded partnership makes Trintech's Adra Suite the only financial close solution with a certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Connector and builds upon its already existing portfolio of Microsoft Connectors to support any Microsoft Dynamics customer regardless of version, past or present and on-premise or in the cloud.With Microsoft playing a central operations role for thousands of companies, older versions of AX, Navision (NAV), Solomon, and Great Plains remain the daily lifeblood of these companies. Trintech integrates into every Dynamics version to enable current operations, while also providing for the future as organization's migrate to newer Dynamics platforms."We are excited to announce our expanded partnership with Microsoft with the addition of our certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central connector," said Darren Heffernan, President, Mid-Market at Trint...

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Tech shares lead US stocks down ahead of Fed decision

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NEW YORK (AFP) - Wall Street stocks tumbled on Tuesday (Dec 14), with tech shares especially weak as markets awaited a key Federal Reserve decision amid lingering worries over the latest Covid-19 strain. Investors are girding for more details on just how fast the Fed will scale back its stimulus, and the timing of when the first interest rate hikes will come. Fresh producer pricing data showing sharply higher inflation added to expectations for a more hawkish posture by the United States central bank when it concludes its two-day meeting Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.3 per cent to 35,544.18. The broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.7 per cent to 4,634.09, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 1.1 per cent to 15,237.64. Besides the Fed, investors are skittish over the latest Covid-19 variant Omicron as more governments enact fresh restrictions, said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare. "There's still a lingering concern that it can have an adverse impact to the extent that people might cancel travel or entertainment," Mr O'Hare said, adding that markets were also in "consolidation" mode after last week's rally. Tech shares had a difficult session, with Adobe f...

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Microsoft and NEC Expand Strategic Partnership to Boost Business Resiliency and Growth

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TOKYO, Jul 13, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft) and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) on Tuesday announced an expansion of their decades-long collaboration. Through a new multi-year strategic partnership, the companies will leverage Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC's network and IT expertise, including 5G technologies, and each other's AI and IoT solutions to help enterprise customers and the public sector across multiple markets and industries further accelerate their cloud adoption and digital transformation initiatives.The partnership will see NEC adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform to deliver enhanced capabilities to drive sustained digitalization, help customers transform their business models, and build Digital Workplaces for the post-pandemic "new normal."To accelerate NEC's Digital Workplace innovation and workforce transformation, the companies will work together to migrate NEC's on-premises IT environment to Azure and deploy Azure Virtual Desktop and other Azure services among the NEC Group's 110,000 employees worldwide. This modernization builds on NEC's existing Microsoft 365 platform and will enable a highly sustainab...

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Microsoft sales jump on cloud, shares slip on lofty forecasts

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NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit that topped analysts' estimates for a ninth straight quarter, lifted by booming cloud-computing demand. This time, investors weren't satisfied. Sales in the period ended March 31 rose to US$41.7 billion (S$55.3 billion), the software maker said on Tuesday (April 27). That compared with the US$41.1 billion average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg. Still, projections ranged as high as US$41.9 billion, with some analysts and investors saying recent gains in the stock had swollen expectations beyond the consensus numbers. The software giant's market capitalisation flirted with US$2 trillion the past few days as shares soared, buoyed by enthusiasm for the company's growing cloud-services business and the strongest quarter for personal-computer shipments in more than two decades. That meant even though sales climbed a robust 19 per cent and Azure cloud revenue rose at the same clip as last quarter, some Microsoft investors were looking for a bigger blockbuster. "Expectation creep has set in," wrote Piper Sandler analyst Brent Bracelin in a note to clients ahead of the results. "Investor sentiment remains univers...

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Microsoft to reopen HQ, step up in-person work worldwide

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Microsoft said Monday it would start reopening its headquarters offices next week and implementing a "hybrid workplace" that brings back more employees around the world after a year of remote work during the pandemic. The move is the first formal reopening plan to be announced by Big Tech firms which have kept most employees on remote work where feasible during the past year. "Our approach is data-driven and research-backed," said a tweet from the tech giant which employs some 160,000 people worldwide. "As of today, after over a year in which most Microsoft employees have worked remotely, several of our work sites around the globe have reached a stage that meets or exceeds government requirements to accommodate more workers," executive vice president Kurt DelBene said in a blog post. "Currently, Microsoft work sites in 21 countries have been able to accommodate additional workers in our facilities - representing around 20 percent of our global employee population. On March 29, Microsoft will also start making this shift at our Redmond, Washington, headquarters and nearby campuses." DelBene said the hybrid model would allow flexibility in allowing some employees t...

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Fujitsu Verifies Effectiveness of Private 5G in Manufacturing Sites in Collaboration with Microsoft Japan

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TOKYO, Oct 16, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced that, in collaboration with Microsoft Japan Ltd., it has recently verified the effectiveness of a system that uses private 5G to visualize real-time data within the facility, with a view toward manufacturers' digital transformation (DX). Figure 1. system image diagramFigure 2. Visualization image of various data by COLMINAUsing Microsoft Azure IoT Edge(1) in the "Fujitsu Collaboration Lab," a private 5G verification facility in Kawasaki, Japan, this system analyzes high-definition images of people moving in the private 5G network and operating data from cameras, mobile terminals, servers, and other equipment. This enables integrated visualization of the status of people, unmanned vehicles, and equipment with the Fujitsu Manufacturing Industry Solution COLMINA(2), unifying private 5G and cloud environments to bring about a system with optimized for network and processing load. Based on the findings of the verification test, Fujitsu will collaborate with Microsoft Japan to conduct verification tests at Fujitsu's plant in Oyama, Japan, Fujitsu's manufacturing base for network products, by the end of fiscal 2020 and jointly...