Analytics, AI, IoT help transform industries

Last November, at the company’s Future Decoded event in London, Microsoft chief executive officer (CEO) Satya Nadella insisted that every organization should embrace “tech intensity” to be successful in today’s digital age, which means companies should not only be fast-adopters of technology but also build their own digital capabilities.

Anant Maheshwari, president of Microsoft India, echoes Nadella’s thinking. “If you consider tech intensity, every company on the planet is becoming a tech and a software company,” he said in a recent interview in Bengaluru.

According to him, it’s the infusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications—and adoption of advanced analytics using AI and Internet of Things (IoT) devices—that are helping the move from a mobile-first, cloud-first world to a new world that is going to be “made up of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge”, he adds.