Watch Microsoft Satya Nadella s AI Deep Dive Inspire 2022
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicks off its annual Inspire event with an in-depth look into its Intelligent Data Platform.
to use our tools to do more with less.
Now let's talk about data and AI.
It's all about two things.
Getting your data estate in order
and applying large AI models as platforms.
That's the dual challenge.
This is the age of AI.
The core business logic
is no longer just being written by developers,
it's being written by software.
In fact, by 2025,
10% of all data
will be produced by generative AI models.
Analytics is moving from back-end processes
to being critical part of the product experience.
And so how are you using this intelligence?
How are you helping your customers
translate it into more predictions,
more insights, more actions, more automation?
It's hard to overstate the opportunity.
What we are seeing
is the convergence of previously disparate categories.
We are the only company
that has a complete data fabric
from the operational stores to the analytics engine
to data governance
with our Microsoft Intelligent Data platform.
Let me be super clear.
This is not just about best of breed.
It's about bringing the best of suite.
This allows organizations
to spend more time creating value
and less time integrating
and managing their data estate.
Just think about the time
and effort that goes into aligning
your operational stores and analytics
with new regulations.
Or just imagine the total cost of ownership
if you try to do all this integration on your own.
Analytics alone on our Intelligent Data platform
is about 4.8x faster
and costs up to 59% less
than other cloud analytics vendors.
Today, 70% of the Fortune 1000
use two or more of our data solutions,
and we're seeing leaders from every industry,
from AT&T and KPMG to Manulife,
unify their data and reduce costs
using our tools.
Walgreens was able to achieve 3x the performance
at one-third the cost
when it migrated to our data platform
for their analytic needs.
When it comes to AI,
we're seeing a real paradigm shift
as the world's large AI models
become powerful platforms themselves.
In Azure, we have built
the most powerful AI supercomputer in the cloud,
and we've used it to train
these large, state-of-the-art AI models.
But it's not enough to talk about these models.
It's about applying them.
We are building models as platforms in Azure
so that you can apply these advances
to any use case,
including some of the biggest challenges
we face as a society today.
Orsted, which produces a quarter
of the world's wind energy
along with our partner Cognite,
has used our tools to turn data
from its offshore wind turbines
into insights for predictive maintenance.
Let's take a look.
Orsted produces
a quarter of the world's energy
from offshore wind,
and we have a leading position
as a sustainable energy company.
When you run wind turbines,
you need to have data
about their integrity.
The wind turbines are standing outside
in a rough environment offshore,
and working offshore
is in a harsh environment
and a dangerous environment.
Previously, we had two colleagues
standing outside the confined space
and two colleagues
going down into the confined space
doing the manual inspection.
With the innovation that we're doing
together with Microsoft and Cognite,
we're trying to innovate
how we inspect the confined space.
We want to digitalize it
by bringing in new technologies.
What we do with the drones
is that we fly inside these structures,
and we collect imagery data
and other sensory data from the drone,
and we run computer vision models
to detect corrosion and cracks.
Cognite Data Fusion
is built on Microsoft Azure
and integrated with
Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.
Data scientists can combine data
from IoT sensors
with telemetry from the drone
and the 3D model
to create actual business value.
We have a precise location
of where do we have corrosion.
In the new setup,
we will only need two technicians
where the technicians
stay outside of the confined space
and let the drone do the work.
It's actually first with the industry
that we deploy this in offshore wind
in the confined space.
We get a faster inspection,
more energy production,
we get a cheaper solution,
we get a safer environment,
and I think everybody wins.
What a great example,
and I just love the impact
they've been able to have.

