{"id":12793,"date":"2015-03-16T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T14:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=218301"},"modified":"2015-03-16T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T14:33:46","slug":"microsoft-reveals-office-2016-skype-for-business-azure-iot-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-reveals-office-2016-skype-for-business-azure-iot-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reveals Office 2016, Skype for Business, Azure IoT services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_218311\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218311\" alt=\"Microsoft chief exec Satya Nadella previewed a number of new services at Convergence this week\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2015\/03\/SatyaConvergence-2-300x166.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft chief exec Satya Nadella previewed a number of new services at Convergence this week<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft revealed a slew of new cloud offerings and updates to its productivity offerings at the company\u2019s annual Convergence conference this week, including a developer and enterprise preview of Office 2016, a re-branded Microsoft Lync (Skype for Business), and an Azure-based suite of Internet of Things services.<\/p>\n<p>The company was keen to show off Office 2016, which will be available later this year and ship with a few new services \u2013 notably Office Delve, which uses machine learning algorithms to surface corporate Office 265 documents and files that are relevant to specific users in a cloud-based collaboration environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know how Facebook has a newsfeed? Think of this as your work newsfeed,\u201d said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft. \u201cIt\u2019s about enabling anyone in the organisation to find useful information without having corporate hierarchies get in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also announced the general availability of PowerBI, it\u2019s analytics and dashboarding platform, which will come with new connectors for Google Analytics, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing, Zuora, Acumatica and Twilio \u2013 with connections for other analytics platforms coming in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Lync, the company\u2019s enterprise collaboration and communications platform, has been re-branded to Skype for Business and been given a noticeable facelift.<\/p>\n<p>The company also unified its Azure-based analytics and machine learning offerings into what Microsoft is calling the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. The suite combines Azure Stream Analytics and Azure ML (machine learning) and is being aimed at developers creating real-time data services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevices will come and go. But the most interesting thing is the data being collected,\u201d Nadella said, adding that the rapid increase in the volume and velocity of data requires better and more unified tools for developers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have something like 26 billion internet-connected devices and 44 zettabytes of data in the cloud by 2019,\u201d Nadella said. \u201cHow do we make sure that the ability to have access to that data, the ability to act on the insight \u2013 those small patterns that, we as humans, recognise in data? The real power comes from our ability to act on those insights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft revealed a slew of new cloud offerings and updates to its productivity offerings at the company&rsquo;s annual Convergence conference this week, including a developer and enterprise preview of Office 2016, a re-branded Microsoft Lync (Skype for Business), and an Azure-based suite of Internet of Things services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1998,893,1909,51,1976,1999,2000,59,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delve","category-internet-of-things","category-iot","category-microsoft","category-news-analysis","category-office","category-satya-nadella","category-software-as-a-service","category-vendor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12794,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}