Yahoo Finance May 19, 2020
Cherlynn Low

At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is now available in a public preview and as a free six-month trial. In general, the Industry Clouds are sets of tools that bring together Microsoft’s existing services like chatbots, Teams and Azure IoT. The company also promised that a “robust partner ecosystem” will be available to make the platform more useful.

Think of Microsoft Industry Clouds as something like Google’s G Suite for businesses, except with access to far more Microsoft tools and catering specifically to designated industries. Cloud for Healthcare, for example, will focus on what Microsoft has identified as important needs for the...

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