Microsoft offers AI solutions helping retailers address challenges and enhance store operations to focus on delighting and assisting shoppers.
As we transition from hype to reality, brands are shifting from basic generative AI applications like content and tagline generation and to evaluating comprehensive business processes that leverage generative AI to accelerate timelines, unlock more value, and drive increased growth.
Together, Blue Yonder and Microsoft are unlocking a new era of value for retailers with AI. With AI-powered solutions, retailers can empower their teams to make decisions based on access to real-time data and intelligent insights.
Microsoft and our partners are investing in industry-specific capabilities to help customers adopt revolutionary AI solutions faster like copilot templates to create AI assistants for high value scenarios and industry data solutions that provide a data and analytics foundation to ensure your data is AI ready.Â
During this wave, we’ve invested heavily in the development of copilot templates to enhance capabilities and integration across various industries. These customizable templates offer improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer engagement, and seamless integration with existing technology, all while supporting a diverse, global customer base.
Generative AI provides more possibilities than can be addressed in series of blogs. Understanding what others have done can help guide your thinking and approach. The level of creativity increases daily, and we will all watch the space with anticipation of the most impactful use cases for retail and consumer goods companies.Â
Microsoft and Blue Yonder have been at the forefront of a cognitive revolution of supply chain innovation, laying the foundation for a truly intelligent, autonomous supply chain, with a predictive and generative AI copilot, delivering faster and better decision making.
With retail data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, we are giving customers a single place for all their data analytics. Providing a platform for partners such as Sitecore to connect and build on, helping retailers overcome data incompatibility, and unlock new capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Retail.Â
New capabilities within the 2024 release wave 1 will be available from April 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024. This plan covers features for Microsoft Cloud for Retail, Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, and Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit.
The latest Microsoft Cloud for Retail updates use AI to help retailers maximize their data, elevate shopper experience, and empower store associates. We’re excited to introduce copilot templates on Azure OpenAI Service. Leveraging the copilot templates, retailers can build experiences to gain a competitive edge while responding to their business’s evolving needs.
Through new Microsoft Copilot capabilities in Microsoft products, copilot templates for building applications, and retail data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft makes AI implementation more accessible to retailers of all sizes. Retailers can now more easily take the first steps with generative AI.
Join Microsoft at NRF 2024 to experience the next generation of AI and gain insights on how it’s already transforming retail—and learn about strategies you can use to embrace this wave of innovation.
AI is reinventing customer engagement where every connection adds value to the customer relationship, enriching employee experiences to help people be more creative in their work, and reshaping business processes. Read about how Microsoft partners across industries are accelerating innovation with AI.
