NetSuite Names EMEA Partners of the Year
The partner community has been an important part of NetSuite’s success and the Partners of the Year announcement is always a special day. Without an in-person partner kickoff event, the announcement has also moved online. This year’s winners reflect just how hard the community is working to help our joint customers manage the current environment […]
To the moon and beyond: How HoloLens 2 is helping build NASA’s Orion spacecraft
When workers for Lockheed Martin began assembling the crew seats for a spacecraft designed to return astronauts to the moon and pave the way for human exploration to Mars, they had no need for paper instructions or tablet screens to work from. Everything they needed to see — from animations of how pieces fit together […]
Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks
What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data analytics and modern supercomputers to make these predictions. Microsoft Premonition envisions doing the same for […]
Continuous Employee Engagement: A Sneak Peek at What’s New with SuitePeople in the NetSuite 2020 Release 2
Employees are more engaged when they receive regular feedback on their performance, with an eye toward growing their career. A new SuitePeople solution, Performance Management, helps employees stay engaged with active, real-time goal monitoring, reflections on past performance and recognition for achievements by peers and managers. HR leaders now have a more efficient way to […]
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible, as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical. Microsoft’s Project Natick team […]
Microsoft will replenish more water than it consumes by 2030
Water is essential to life. We depend on it for our survival. The basic need has shaped how human societies have advanced over time. Explorers from pre-Columbian times and the age of antiquity to NASA have lived by the motto “follow the water” as they have sought and continue to seek to discover new opportunities […]
VC Veteran: Raising Equity During Pandemic Requires Creativity and Vision
Just because there’s a pandemic, doesn’t mean companies can’t raise equity. But for those companies looking to fight through a challenging time to tap into private equity (PE) investment dollars or pursue an IPO, a little creativity, a bit of experience and a forward-looking vision can go a long way. Those were the takeaways of […]
Mayor Turner and Microsoft expand digital alliance with the city of Houston
Mayor Sylvester Turner announced on Monday that the city of Houston has expanded its groundbreaking digital alliance with Microsoft to innovate in big data, artificial intelligence and the digital economy. Microsoft brings to Houston “Accelerate,” a new program designed to address economic recovery through skilling both underserved communities and re-skilling the many Americans impacted by […]
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available, he warned that something serious was coming. “The reported cases follow a very scary exponential […]
9 Critical Steps to Retain and Manage Talent During COVID-19
Managing and retaining talent has always been a tricky business, but the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the stakes substantially. Almost overnight, employees at many companies started working from home, some were laid off or furloughed and people started worrying more about their futures. Businesses needed to develop and enforce virus-fighting protocols, roll out new technologies […]