Announcing new innovations for SAP on Microsoft Cloud

By Dustin Ward

This week at SAP Sapphire 2025 we are excited to share several new announcements and key strategic updates from Microsoft and SAP for our joint customers, built on the foundation of our 30 years of partnership to help thousands of joint customers accelerate their business transformation. Innovate in the cloud faster We are committed to…

Powering the next AI frontier with Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data portfolio 

By Dustin Ward

The emergence of an entirely new type of organization—reconstructed with AI—was uncovered in Microsoft’s latest annual Work Trend Index report. These frontier firms are building agent assistants, creating hybrid human and agent teams, and even establishing entire teams of agents directed by humans. As more organizations begin their journey to this next frontier, agents will…

Unlock seamless data management with Azure Storage Actions—now generally available 

By Dustin Ward

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage. Businesses continuously generate, analyze, and store data, accumulating vast datasets with billions of objects that span multiple regions. Relentless data sprawl makes it difficult for…

Upskill your team on Azure Databricks with an on-demand webinar and Microsoft Learn

By Dustin Ward

In a data-driven world, you need an efficient way to harness your data for actionable insights and gain a competitive edge. Azure Databricks is a powerful, unified analytics and AI platform that streamlines the entire AI project lifecycle—from rapid experimentation to production deployment. By consolidating data ingestion, transformation, and model tracking in one environment, Azure…

Introducing the Llama 4 herd in Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to share the first models in the Llama 4 herd are available today in Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks, which enables people to build more personalized multimodal experiences. These models from Meta are designed to seamlessly integrate text and vision tokens into a unified model backbone. This innovative approach allows developers…

Drasi: Microsoft’s newest open-source project simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems

By Dustin Ward

Drasi is a new data processing system that simplifies detecting critical events within complex infrastructures and taking immediate action tuned to business objectives. Developers and software architects can leverage its capabilities across event-driven scenarios, whether working on Internet of Things (IoT) integrations, enhancing security protocols, or managing sophisticated applications. The Microsoft Azure Incubations team is…