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(Source: Microsoft Ignite 2021) New Announcements & Upgrades:Īt Ignite, Microsoft introduced more than 90 new services and updates in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and other applications. It had launched Carbon Cloud Emission Data, a new service to measure, track and report the carbon emission associated with Google Cloud usage, alongside hybrid work environments. Last month, Google had also made similar announcements. He believes that in the coming years, digital capability around sustainability will be as critical for businesses as CRM for sales and ERP for finances today,” said Nadella.
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“It is not just about our carbon footprint on our own data centres, but creating an entirely new ‘business process category’ to help every organisation address this very urgent need,” said Nadella, revealing plans to launch a tool to measure carbon footprint for businesses. “The ‘Microsoft Cloud’ is built on trust and security,” he added.įurther, he said that it also addresses sustainability concerns. Moreover, he said that it is the most trusted and comprehensive cloud, where it powers every organisation’s digital capability while ensuring its independence and sovereignty over it. Nadella believes that its Microsoft Cloud addresses present-day challenges alongside helping enterprises navigate these converging secular trends. “We are moving from a mobile and cloud era to an era of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence – an era which will experience more digitisation over the next ten years than the last 40,” said Nadella.īesides this, he highlighted various trends transforming businesses globally, particularly touching upon various aspects of hybrid work, hyper-connected businesses, digital capabilities, and cybersecurity. He said that digital technology is a powerful deflationary force in an inflationary economy, where businesses small and large can improve their productivity and the affordability of their products and services by building tech intensity. Retrospecting the rapid changes across the industry in the last few years, Nadella said that the case of ‘digital transformation’ has never been more urgent. At the virtual Ignite conference 2021, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella made exciting new announcements and innovations across artificial intelligence (AI), security, enterprise collaboration, Metaverse and more.