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Accelerate business growth with a market-leading, integrated AI application platform.
Get to market faster, modernize with AI, and scale AI apps on a secure, global platform.
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OVERVIEW

Create differentiated digital experiences

  • Rapidly deliver AI-powered customer experiences that differentiate and grow your business.
  • Future-proof your business by modernizing for AI and continuous innovation.
  • Securely accelerate apps to production by leveraging Azure’s global, enterprise-ready platform.
  • Start building powerful AI-driven solutions with free amounts of Azure AI app and data services.
USE CASES

Explore AI apps use cases

Create differentiated products

Build innovative products and services with AI capabilities to grow your business and tap into new markets.
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Accelerate content delivery

Create personalized marketing content across platforms, from social media posts to product descriptions.
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Transform customer service

Provide personalized and interactive responses to answer customer questions and facilitate routine tasks.
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Personalize customer experiences

Deliver tailored content, products, and services to specific users based on their behavior, preferences, and needs.
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Optimize employee workflows and processes

Empower people with rich knowledge when they need it and automate manual tasks to free up time for higher value work.
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Prevent fraud and detect anomalies

Handle high volumes of transactions reliably, and identify patterns, anomalies, or suspicious activity.
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Unlock organizational knowledge

Surface insights from vast amounts of data and make it accessible through natural language interactions.
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Automate document processing

Classify, extract, summarize, and gain deeper insights from documents using natural language prompts.
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PRODUCTS

Build AI apps with Azure

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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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Azure AI Foundry

Build Copilots and AI solutions faster with pre-built and customizable models, using your data to innovate at scale.
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GitHub Enterprise

Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software to the cloud using GitHub’s AI-powered developer platform.
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RESOURCES

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Discover more resources for intelligent apps. Drive innovation with research insights, learning resources, and more.
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Study

Cloud-Native Applications

Evaluate the potential return on investment of cloud-native apps on Azure in this 2023 Forrester Consulting study.
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Report

Cloud AI Developer Services

Microsoft is recognized for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services1.
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Study

Microsoft App Innovation

Explore the impact on cost savings, developer productivity, and time to market in this 2023 Forrester Consulting study.
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Study

Forrester Study: Unlock Competitive Advantage with Application Modernization

Learn common gaps in app modernization and the experiences of real organizations making positive changes to close those gaps.
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CUSTOMER STORIES

Trusted by leaders and innovators

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  5. LEGO House Logo
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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, 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, PwC
150
Countries with PwC clients
Products
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Manulife logo
“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, Manulife
30%
Reduction in development time
50%
Cost savings
Products
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KPMG logo
“Search quality jumped from 50 to 91 percent, and our results were being delivered in under a second.”
Robert Finlayson, Senior Product Manager, 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, LEGO
2
Successful migrations
Products
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NEWS

The latest in app innovation

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Announcement
• November 19, 2024

The next wave of Azure innovation: Azure AI Foundry, intelligent data, and more

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News
• November 19, 2024

Build AI faster and run with confidence

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News
• November 12, 2024

Microsoft is a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform

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News
• October 29, 2024

Azure at GitHub Universe: New tools to help simplify AI app development

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NEXT STEPS

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Get support for building AI-infused and custom cloud-native applications, as well as modernizing your app estate.
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    Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, By Jim Scheibmeir, Arun Batchu, Mike Fang, 29 April 2024 

     

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