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Make-A-Wish® transitioned to remote work within a week with Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams and continues to make wishes come true.

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Using Fairlearn on Azure Machine Learning, EY's Trusted AI Platform enables developers to identify and mitigate unfairness in their models across different demographics.

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"We're configuring to move from IaaS to a PaaS model so that we can take advantage of cost-savings around infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, app installs—all those things that can be automated."
Kristina Wilson
IT Manager – Client Applications | H&R Block

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"With Azure, we get instant scalability,...high availability, and great performance. We also get access to the services and solutions that we need to put our data to work for us."
Dan Berlin
Global IT Director | Kennametal

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Make-A-Wish® transitioned to remote work within a week with Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams and continues to make wishes come true.

Case study

Using Fairlearn on Azure Machine Learning, EY's Trusted AI Platform enables developers to identify and mitigate unfairness in their models across different demographics.

Case study

"We're configuring to move from IaaS to a PaaS model so that we can take advantage of cost-savings around infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, app installs—all those things that can be automated."
Kristina Wilson
IT Manager – Client Applications | H&R Block

Case study

"With Azure, we get instant scalability,...high availability, and great performance. We also get access to the services and solutions that we need to put our data to work for us."
Dan Berlin
Global IT Director | Kennametal

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