Microsoft’s announcement of Dynamics 365 brings these ‘smart’ features well within the grasp of every company looking to break down data silos and run a successful connected company.  Comprising of a host of the rising tech trends listed in the Gartner’s Hype Cycle report, Dynamics 365 demands a closer look.

The Hype Cycle report lists three overarching technology trends that profoundly create new experiences.  This new tech is designed with unrivalled intelligence and seamless ease to allow organisations to connect with new business ecosystems.

• Immersive experiences: people, businesses and things become inextricably linked as the evolution of technology becomes more adaptive, contextual and fluid within the workplace, at home, and interacting with businesses and other people. A connected home; natural language artificial intelligence and bots are concepts no longer reserved for futurists but available to buy and deploy.
• The perceptual smart machineage: with radical computational power, near-endless amounts of data, and unprecedented advances in deep neural networks smart machines will be the most disruptive tech this decade, which will allow organisations with smart machine technologies to harness data in order to adapt to new situations and solve problems. Machine learning is changing the way our clients design service offerings with maintenance cycles variable given user behaviour and telemetry received from machine components.
• The platform revolution: emerging technologies are revolutionising the concepts of how platforms are defined and used. The shift from technical infrastructure to ecosystem-enabling platforms is laying the foundations for entirely new business models that are forming the bridge between humans and technology. The phenomenal growth in micro datacentres as well as giants in the datacentre space like AWS, Google and Microsoft with their Azure platform gives end users the flexibility to choose where their data sits and the most efficient way to manage and retrieve it.

In the race to democratise data and provide ‘just-add-water’ app creation, Microsoft have changed up the conversation with the launch of Dynamics 365. Want a closer look, talk to QUANTIQ.