{"id":16083,"date":"2015-07-21T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230861"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:42:46","slug":"microsoft-signs-ge-in-massive-cloud-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-signs-ge-in-massive-cloud-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft signs GE in massive cloud deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156722\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Microsoft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"General Electric has signed up to use Microsoft's cloud software\" width=\"279\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Electric has signed up to use Microsoft&#8217;s cloud software<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft announced this week that it has signed up long-time tech partner GE to its cloud-based productivity software in a multimillion dollar deal.<\/p>\n<p>The move will see GE deploy Microsoft\u2019s cloud productivity suite Office 365 to GE\u2019s more than 300,000 employees in 170 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Miller, senior vice president and chief information officer of GE said: \u201cAs we deepen our investments in employee productivity, Microsoft\u2019s innovative approach to collaboration made Office 365 our first choice for providing scalable productivity tools to our employees worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GE said it will integrate a number of its line of business applications with Office 365 and deploy cloud-based email and Skype for Business calling and meetings, real-time document co-authoring, and team collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft and GE share many values in common \u2014 openness, transparency, data-driven intelligence and innovation \u2014 all of which are driving forces behind Microsoft\u2019s own mission to help people and organizations achieve more,\u201d said John Case, corporate vice president of Microsoft Office. \u201cAs one of the most innovative companies in the world, GE understands what it takes to unleash the potential of its employees. We\u2019re delighted GE has selected Office 365 as the productivity and collaboration solution to empower its global workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GE and Microsoft are longtime technology partner. The two companies have even set up a joint venture together \u2013 Caradigm, a company that develops and sells a healthcare technology platform for clinical applications and population management.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the deal comes at a critical time for the company and is in some ways a validation of Microsoft\u2019s goal of turning its business around from a number of strategic stumbles and focusing on its core strengths in software and the cloud. Earlier this month the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/07\/09\/microsoft-shifts-ever-further-to-cloud-as-it-writes-off-entire-nokia-acquisition\/\">reported<\/a> it would write off its entire Nokia acquisition and shed about 7,800 jobs in the process, mostly from its phone business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced this week that it has signed up long-time tech partner GE to its cloud-based productivity software in a multimillion dollar deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1989,2934,51,1976,2930,348,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-it","category-ge","category-microsoft","category-news-analysis","category-nokia","category-office-365","category-software-as-a-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","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=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16084,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions\/16084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}