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Build and modernize intelligent apps

Build AI-powered, intelligent apps and enhance your critical solutions with generative AI.
Go to market faster, improve app performance, and increase developer efficiency with Azure.
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SOLUTION OVERVIEW

Create differentiated digital experiences

  • Build intelligent apps, create custom copilots, and enhance products with Azure OpenAI Service.
  • Gain the competitive edge by rapidly delivering new products that deepen customer engagement.
  • Get limitless scale, real-time access, and advanced security with fully managed databases.
  • Improve app uptime and reduce risk with built-in high availability and advanced threat detection.
  • Build apps faster and easier with toolsets from Red Hat, VMware, and HashiCorp.
  • Build responsible AI solutions to deploy at market speed.
PRODUCTS

Build intelligent apps with Azure

Azure OpenAI Service

Develop generative AI experiences using prebuilt and curated models from OpenAI, Meta, and more.
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Azure Kubernetes Service

Develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native apps on managed Kubernetes in Azure or at the edge.
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Azure Cosmos DB

Power intelligent apps with high-performance and real-time data, ingested and processed at any scale.
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Azure App Service

Modernize and scale your applications to accelerate time to market and deliver new experiences.
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Azure SQL Database

Power resource-intensive apps, keep mission-critical workloads running at peak performance, and modernize SQL data.
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Build AI-ready apps with a fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL.
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 OUTCOMES

Drive meaningful business value

Read a 2023 Forrester Consulting TEI study commissioned by Microsoft on Azure app innovation.
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USE CASES

Build your own copilot

Enable rich, contextual interactions and surface insights from vast amounts of data with generative AI.
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Connected smart products

Monitor equipment and inventory, track medical and fitness devices, and analyze in-store behavior.
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Information discovery

Surface valuable insights and knowledge from large volumes of product, financial, or organizational data.
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Personalization and recommendations

Deliver tailored content, products, or services to specific users based on their behavior, preferences, and needs.
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Transaction processing at scale

Handle high volumes of transactions swiftly, accurately, and reliably, and scale up or down as demand changes.
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Real-time fraud detection

Identify patterns, anomalies, or suspicious activity in transaction, inventory, asset, or real-time data.
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LEARNING HUB

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E-book

Build and modernize intelligent apps

Drive value for your organization by transitioning to an intelligent app approach.
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Webinar

Drive business value

See how to revolutionize your business and produce valuable insights with AI-driven solutions.
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Learning modules

Essentials to build intelligent apps

Learn how to build and modernize intelligent apps.
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RESEARCH INSIGHTS

Measurable business benefits

  • Evaluate the potential return on investment of cloud-native apps on Azure in this 2023 Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft.
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    Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure for Cloud-Native Applications, August 2023
  • Microsoft is recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.
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    Microsoft is a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services3
  • Explore the impact on cost savings, developer productivity, and time to market with Azure app innovation in this 2023 Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft.
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    Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure App Innovation, 2023
CUSTOMER STORIES

Trusted by leaders and innovators

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“We’ve always been sitting on a lot of data, but we needed Azure and AI to unlock its potential.”
Charlie Rohlf, Associate Vice President of Stats Technology Product Development at NBA
10B
Interactions per day across channels
10M
Data points captured per game
Products
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“Generative AI capabilities within the Azure OpenAI Service open up possibilities for us.”
Winnie Cheng, Director of AI in Products and Technology at PwC
150
Countries with PwC clients
Products
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“Our data scientists can now set up an environment, get data into it, and start iterating in only a few days.” 
Aaron Minkovich, Chief Technology Officer at Manulife
30%
Reduction in development time
50%
Cost savings
Products
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“Search quality jumped from 50 to 91 percent, and our results were being delivered in under a second.”
Robert Finlayson, Senior Product Manager at KPMG Australia
50%
Increase in employee productivity
70%
Employee adoption of KymChat
Products
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“We wanted a tech stack enabling us to learn, and scale, and use it to inspire the rest of the LEGO ecosystem.”
Søren Bering Andersen, Head of Digital and Technology at LEGO
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Successful migrations
Products
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NEWS

The latest in app innovation

News
• November 15, 2023

Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn your AI ambitions into reality

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Offer
• November 15, 2023

Build intelligent apps with Azure AI or GitHub, and save on Azure Cosmos DB 

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Announcement
• November 15, 2023

Build AI-powered apps with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

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News
• November 15, 2023

Azure Kubernetes Service adds support for Microsoft Copilot for Azure, language models, and cost optimization

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RELATED SOLUTIONS

Build and modernize apps with Azure

Modern application development

Respond to changes fast, optimize costs, and ship confidently with cloud-native architectures.
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Application and data modernization

Accelerate time to market, deliver innovative experiences, and improve security with Azure.
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Cloud-native applications

Develop applications designed for the cloud on an open and flexible platform.
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NEXT STEPS

Azure Innovate

Get access to Microsoft partners and Azure Innovate investments as you build or modernize intelligent apps.
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Azure AI Advantage

Save up to $6,000 on a fast, scalable, and high-performance database service for your next AI-powered app.
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Tools and solutions from Microsoft partners

Simplify and accelerate app development with solutions from Microsoft partners.
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[1]

According to the commissioned survey, 77% of 144 respondents experienced increased developer efficiencies in a range of 10% to 25%.

 

[2]

The percentage referenced is based on 114 developer managers and executives responding to the following question, “After deploying Azure Innovation products and services technologies, what was the percentage reduction in downtime related to applications for your organization?”

 

[3]

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, Jim Scheibmeir, Svetlana Sicular, and 4 more, May 22, 2023.

 

Gartner is a registered trademark and service mark and Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

 

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