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Microsoft hopes its new AI innovations are the answer to a new set of challenges facing manufacturers.

FedEx Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to provide commercial shipping customers with early warnings of delays from weather, traffic, and other mishaps, giving the courier and the software maker another weapon as each competes with Amazon.

Taking a disruptive, cloud-based approach to business-to-business communications in the third-party logistics industry, LEGACY Supply Chain Services now services customers 70 percent faster and reduces technology operating costs by 50 percent using Microsoft Azure Logic Apps.

Under the Scottish sea, as part of the next phase of Project Natick, Microsoft tests a data center including 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage that’s quick to deploy and could provide internet connectivity for years.

Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods makes the e-commerce giant a real player in the grocery space and it also just snapped up a major client for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, which rivals Amazon Web Services.

If you’re looking for a holistic computing environment that lets on-premises resources and the cloud smoothly work together, provides a unified approach to management, and allows a single identity everywhere, you’re looking for the Microsoft hybrid cloud.

In just 12 weeks, Whole Foods Market rolled out Azure Active Directory Premium to all 91,000 employees, who use it to gain single sign-on to more than 30 SaaS applications.

With Microsoft’s cloud computing services and Azure platform, Maersk has a powerful set of tools for turning its vast operational and commercial data into more efficient operations and better products and services for customers.