Microsoft Delve: Cloud is the main focus

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Microsoft’s WPC is an opportunity for Microsoft to present its roadmaps and plans for an assembled roster of major customers. In years past, Microsoft has made products like Office 365 and Azure key areas of focus, as platforms that partners can build off and provide consulting services for, growing their own business as well as that of Microsoft.

At past WPCs, Microsoft has shown off how products like its Power BI tools provide intelligence to products like Excel, tying together public and private data stores to provide insightful looks at information. In one example on Monday, Microsoft executives demonstrated how a travel budget could be dynamically adjusted by swapping out business-class airfare with coach for travelers in various product groups, and how warning signs in sales for a particular industry segment could be put front and center on an operations dashboard.

On Monday, however, Microsoft made machine learning its focus. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group at Microsoft, called the new Azure Machine Learning technology, announced in June, sort of the opposite of Power BI—Azure ML looks forward with its predictions, not back. Azure ML was released in preview form.

Likewise, Julia White, the general manager of Office, showed off how the new Delve tool—formerly code-named “Oslo”—could tap into the power of Azure to learn what documents are relevant to you.

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Microsoft’s Oslo technology, now renamed Delve.

Microsoft continued to tout Office 365’s success. A year ago, Microsoft executives boasted of Office 365’s $1 billion run rate. This year, it’s up to $2.5 billion, John Case, corporate vice president of the Office Division, said. And the Office for iPad apps have been downloaded more than 27 million times, he added. Over 5 million apps running on top of Office 365 and Azure have been downloaded through Microsoft’s online stores.
 
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