Azure for Retail & Consumer Goods
Deliver extraordinary customer experiences and drive greater revenue with Azure.
The future of retail is here, and it’s in the cloud.
Cloud technology empowers retailers to deliver unforgettable customer experiences, enables sales and service teams to captivate shoppers from anywhere, and provides powerful insight with 360° customer views and intelligent supply chain management.
Application Innovation
Modern applications in Azure along with agile development processes allow retailers to reduce downtime, rapidly respond to changing marketplace demands, deliver in-store experiences online and stay truly connected with their customers from anywhere.
Azure Data Services
Azure data services empower retailers with increased connectivity and transparency to plan better, adapt to changes faster, and break down silos with shared data and analytics while providing 360° customer views and intelligent supply chain management capabilities.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Virtual desktops enable remote sales, services, and development teams to collaborate and deliver exceptional customer experiences from anywhere. There are in-store benefits too — no need for server closets to run POS systems when it’s all in Azure!
Your Azure retail initiatives may qualify for Microsoft program funding. Get in touch with us for details.
Additional Resources
Responding to Market Shifts: Why Retailers Need the Cloud Now More Than Ever
Effective security operations and cost optimization in Azure requires an advanced skillset. Learn more about what it takes to maintain a secure and optimized Azure environment from Doug Vanderweide, Director of Managed Services at 10th Magnitude.
Enabling Intelligent Retail: Adapt & Respond to Disruption in Retail — Webinar from Microsoft
Watch this on-demand webinar for a discussion on the current retail industry situation and how to adapt and respond to disruption, including insight from McKinsey & Company on the impact of recent changes in retail, actionable advice, and best practices to ensure business continuity.
Microsoft Retail Trends Playbook
Retailers are rapidly adapting to meet the evolving needs of their customers, drastic shifts in demand, and contactless environments. Read Retail Trends Playbook 2021: Driving Operational Resiliency with Connected People and Systems and get best-in-class examples and strategies for keeping your people, systems, and operations connected in new ways.
Reimagining Retail in the Digital Age — Whitepaper from Microsoft
Digital technology is the connective tissue adding ease, convenience, customization, and automation to every aspect of a retail organization. Explore the opportunities created by digital transformation, and learn how Microsoft technology can help retailers reimagine their businesses and not just survive but thrive in today’s competitive environment.
Retail’s Next Frontier — Cognizant Whitepaper
There’s plenty of room in the digital economy for traditional retailers, as long as they shift focus from the products they offer to the experiences they provide, blending the physical and digital worlds to offer distinct and personalized shopping experiences and unleashing the untapped power of emerging new ecosystems.
Four Ways that Technology is Remolding the Digital Supply Chain — Cognizant Whitepaper
Supply chains are a prominent cog in delivering what we need in our daily lives. Almost everything around us has passed through various links in the supply chain. Supply chain efficiency is therefore vital to keeping customers happy — and loyal. Read on to learn how tech is remodeling the supply chain.