PC for business: IT's most exciting change in decades

Friday, 22 April 2016

AWS and Microsoft Azure at the center of IT's most exciting change in decades

Though AWS has an early, commanding lead in cloud infrastructure, CIOs anticipate a 'momentous change of guard' driven by public cloud.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

When it comes to analysing your data, the choice is clear: Microsoft is an industry leader in business intelligence and analytics platforms. Read Gartner's assessment of the business intelligence and analytics landscape to see how Microsoft stacks up. Gartner has recognised Microsoft as a Leader - for the ninth year in a row - in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms*, positioning it farthest to the right on the axis for completeness of vision.

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