Microsoft’s data platform group sharpens its focus on cloud computing opportunities for customers
January 30, 2014
Grazed from TechNet. Author: Editorial Staff.
After the delivery of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Office 2013, Microsoft “ramped-up our energy and sharpened our focus on the opportunities of cloud computing,” writes Quentin Clark in a post on the SQL Server Blog. “These opportunities stem from technical innovation, the nature of cloud computing, and from an understanding of our customers.”
Clark, who leads the team responsible for the engineering direction of the company’s data platform technologies, writes about how Microsoft’s applications and the information they generate and manage is changing its vision of the data platform. For example, he says, relevant data “is not just from inside the enterprise…
Cross-enterprise data, data from other industries and institutions, and information from the Web are all starting to factor into how businesses and the economy function in a big way. Consider the small business loan extension that accounts for package shipping information as a criteria; or, companies that now embrace the use of social media signals.”…
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