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Fintech News ME
a day ago
- Business
- Fintech News ME
e& enterprise and Microsoft Expand AI Partnership in MENAT
e& enterprise, the digital transformation arm of technology group e&, is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to deliver scalable AI and data solutions across the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye (MENAT) region. The partnership is focused on accelerating AI adoption and supporting digital transformation efforts in key markets including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and Türkiye. Amit Gupta, Vice President of Data & AI at e& enterprise, said: 'This collaboration combines e& enterprise and Microsoft's technological expertise and deep market insights to deliver transformative solutions that resonate with the unique dynamics of the MENAT region. Together, we aim to promote digital readiness and bridge the digital divide by providing essential sectors with next generation AI and data-driven tools.' Ahmed Hamzawy, Chief Partner Officer, Microsoft UAE, added: 'Our partnership with e& enterprise will give a significant boost to driving AI adoption across businesses. By leveraging our combined technological expertise, and the safe and secure properties of Microsoft's cloud and AI services, we are empowering organisations to better detect fraud, improve risk management and deliver personalised services through AI-driven insights to their customers.' The partnership will focus on industry-specific applications for sectors such as public services, telecommunications, education, BFSI (banking, financial services, and insurance), and retail. The approach will be tailored to address the requirements of individual markets while supporting broader sector-wide challenges, including customer engagement, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making. AI solutions will be developed and deployed using tools from Microsoft's Azure Cloud ecosystem. These include Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks, Azure AI Search, and Azure Synapse Analytics for model training, analytics, and data processing. Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service will support generative AI use cases including customer service automation, content generation, and forecasting. Additionally, Azure Power BI will provide data visualisation and insight-sharing capabilities, while Azure Data Lake Storage and Snowflake will enable scalable data storage and real-time analytics. e& enterprise will integrate these technologies with its own hybrid cloud services. Its Cloud Strategy and Advisory offering will guide adoption planning, with additional support through Migration and Adoption services. Managed Cloud Services and Cloud Security solutions will also be made available to ensure continuity, compliance, and resilience. In line with both organisations' ethical frameworks, the partnership will incorporate Microsoft's Responsible AI principles and e& enterprise's Responsible AI Framework throughout development and deployment, with an emphasis on transparency, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.
Broadcast Pro
2 days ago
- Business
- Broadcast Pro
E& enterprise and Microsoft to drive AI adoption across industries
With a focus on GenAI, development and implementation of scalable solutions to meet market-specific demands across UAE, KSA, Egypt, Turkey and Qatar. E& enterprise, the digital transformation arm of global technology group E&, has further built on its strategic partnership with Microsoft. By joining forces, both entities are prioritising the development and deployment of next-generation AI and data-driven solutions to bolster AI adoption across industries in target markets across the MENAT region, including UAE, KSA, Egypt, Turkey and Qatar. Commenting on the deal, Amit Gupta, Vice President, Data & AI, e& enterprise, said: 'Our partnership with Microsoft represents a bold step toward redefining the role of AI in shaping the future of business and society. This collaboration combines e& enterprise and Microsofts technological expertise and deep market insights to deliver transformative solutions that resonate with the unique dynamics of the MENAT region. Together, we aim to promote digital readiness and bridge the digital divide by providing essential sectors with next generation AI and data-driven tools, powering them to drive improved customer interactions, optimise operations, and drive broader innovation.' Ahmed Hamzawy, Chief Partner Officer, Microsoft UAE at MS, added: 'Our partnership with e& enterprise will give a significant boost to driving AI adoption across businesses. By leveraging our combined technological expertise, and the safe and secure properties of Microsofts cloud and AI services, we are empowering organisations to better detect fraud, improve risk management and deliver personalised services through AI-driven insights to their customers.' The partnership focuses on providing scalable AI solutions tailored to the unique needs of various industries, including public sector, telco, education, BFSI and retail. By equipping businesses with the tools needed for digital transformation, e& enterprise and Microsoft aim to empower organisations to adapt, innovate, and thrive in an increasingly data-driven world. With industry-specific AI solutions, the partnership is designed to address a wide range of use cases across sectors. Additionally, the collaboration takes a region-specific approach to implementing and scaling these solutions across key, diverse, and digitally demanding markets, including the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Türkiye, and Qatar. This ensures that local market needs are met while tackling broader industry challenges, ultimately enhancing efficiency, customer engagement, and decision-making. As part of its focus on developing GenAI solutions, the partnership will leverage various product offerings under Microsofts Azure Cloud platform. Tools such as Azure Machine Learning, an end-to-end machine learning platform; Azure Databricks, a unified, open analytics platform; and Azure AI Search, Microsofts search and retrieval system, will support data processing, model training, and deployment. Azure Synapse Analytics is another analytics tool that will support data integration and analytics, enabling large-scale data processing for organisations across sectors. Additionally, with the integration of Microsofts Azure OpenAI service, organisations will be able to leverage a suite of GenAI solutions for automating customer service, content creation, and predictive analytics. Azure Power BI is a self-service analytics solution that enables businesses to visualise data, share insights, and embed them into their apps or websites. This tool will support businesses in making informed decisions. Meanwhile, Azure Data Lake Storage and Snowflake will facilitate the storage and management of large datasets, as well as real-time analytics, across the target markets of this partnership: UAE, KSA, Qatar and Egypt. These solutions from Microsoft combined with e& enterprises comprehensive suite of hybrid cloud solutions aim to drive seamless digital transformation, as part of this strategic alliance. E& enterprises Cloud Strategy and Advisory services will help organisations design tailored adoption strategies, while Migration and Adoption will ensure smooth transitions with minimal disruption. By providing organisations with Managed Cloud Services, and Cloud Security, e& enterprise will empower organisations to drive long-term efficiency and safeguard data, ensuring compliance and resilience. To promote responsible and ethical AI adoption, the partnership will implement Microsofts Responsible AI principles and framework and e&s Responsible AI Framework across all its development and deployment stages. This aligns with both entities shared commitment to prioritising data privacy, transparency, and compliance with corporate and national policies.
Mid East Info
2 days ago
- Business
- Mid East Info
e& enterprise and Microsoft join forces to drive AI adoption across industries - Middle East Business News and Information
Partnership to support businesses with industry-specific AI and data analytics tools With a focus on GenAI, development and implementation of scalable solutions to meet market-specific demands across UAE, KSA, Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar Dubai, June 2025 – e& enterprise, the digital transformation arm of global technology group e&, is further building on its strategic partnership with Microsoft. By joining forces, both entities are prioritising the development and deployment of next-generation AI and data-driven solutions to bolster AI adoption across industries in target markets across the MENAT region, including UAE, KSA, Egypt, Turkey and Qatar. Amit Gupta, Vice President, Data & AI, e& enterprise, said: 'Our partnership with Microsoft represents a bold step toward redefining the role of AI in shaping the future of business and society. This collaboration combines e& enterprise and Microsoft's technological expertise and deep market insights to deliver transformative solutions that resonate with the unique dynamics of the MENAT region. Together, we aim to promote digital readiness and bridge the digital divide by providing essential sectors with next generation AI and data-driven tools, powering them to drive improved customer interactions, optimise operations, and drive broader innovation.' Ahmed Hamzawy, Chief Partner Officer, Microsoft UAE at MS, said: 'Our partnership with e& enterprise will give a significant boost to driving AI adoption across businesses. By leveraging our combined technological expertise, and the safe and secure properties of Microsoft's cloud and AI services, we are empowering organisations to better detect fraud, improve risk management and deliver personalised services through AI-driven insights to their customers.' The partnership focuses on providing scalable AI solutions tailored to the unique needs of various industries, including public sector, telco, education, BFSI and retail. By equipping businesses with the tools needed for digital transformation, e& enterprise and Microsoft aim to empower organisations to adapt, innovate, and thrive in an increasingly data-driven world. With industry-specific AI solutions, the partnership is designed to address a wide range of use cases across sectors. Additionally, the collaboration takes a region-specific approach to implementing and scaling these solutions across key, diverse, and digitally demanding markets, including the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Türkiye, and Qatar. This ensures that local market needs are met while tackling broader industry challenges, ultimately enhancing efficiency, customer engagement, and decision-making. As part of its focus on developing GenAI solutions, the partnership will leverage various product offerings under Microsoft's Azure Cloud platform. Tools such as Azure Machine Learning, an end-to-end machine learning platform; Azure Databricks, a unified, open analytics platform; and Azure AI Search, Microsoft's search and retrieval system, will support data processing, model training, and deployment. Azure Synapse Analytics is another analytics tool that will support data integration and analytics, enabling large-scale data processing for organisations across sectors. Additionally, with the integration of Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service, organisations will be able to leverage a suite of GenAI solutions for automating customer service, content creation, and predictive analytics. Azure Power BI is a self-service analytics solution that enables businesses to visualise data, share insights, and embed them into their apps or websites. This tool will support businesses in making informed decisions. Meanwhile, Azure Data Lake Storage and Snowflake will facilitate the storage and management of large datasets, as well as real-time analytics, across the target markets of this partnership: UAE, KSA, Qatar, and Egypt. These solutions from Microsoft combined with e& enterprise's comprehensive suite of hybrid cloud solutions aim to drive seamless digital transformation, as part of this strategic alliance. e& enterprise's Cloud Strategy and Advisory services will help organisations design tailored adoption strategies, while Migration and Adoption will ensure smooth transitions with minimal disruption. By providing organisations with Managed Cloud Services, and Cloud Security, e& enterprise will empower organisations to drive long-term efficiency and safeguard data, ensuring compliance and resilience. To promote responsible and ethical AI adoption, the partnership will implement Microsoft's Responsible AI principles and framework and e&'s Responsible AI Framework across all its development and deployment stages. This aligns with both entities' shared commitment to prioritising data privacy, transparency, and compliance with corporate and national policies. About e& enterprise: e& enterprise is a digital transformation leader supporting governments and large-scale organisations in building and scaling their digital core. Through optimising operations, enhancing customer engagement, and data-driven decision-making, we enable seamless, sustainable, and secure transitions into the evolving digital world. Currently operating in the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Oman, Türkiye, Qatar, and South Africa, e& enterprise brings cutting-edge digital scalable solutions designed to deliver tangible business value and address the unique challenges faced by organisations and executives across industries. With a proven track record as a trusted digital transformation partner, technical expertise, and the ability to deploy and manage complex solutions, e& enterprise provides collaborative tailored solutions that empower customers to navigate their end-to-end digital transformation journey.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
At Build, Microsoft Makes It Clear That Autonomous AI Is Here to Stay. Should You Be Worried?
PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Truly independent (and potentially sinister) have long been a societal fear, dating back to sci-fi radio shows in the 1950s. And, now more than ever, it's scary to think about what autonomous AI can do with a seemingly limitless supply of data. Thankfully, the AI agents Microsoft introduced at its 2025 Build developer conference seem to have an amicable goal: To help you streamline your business and developer processes. The press materials for Build include 296 mentions of the word agent, beating Copilot's 154 mentions, so you know it's the main theme this year. Below are some of the key new agent technologies Microsoft is unveiling: An Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol that enables communication between agents Agentic Memory for Teams, so it can recall previous interactions An Agentic retrieval engine in Azure AI Search (currently in preview) that takes advantage of conversational history An Agent Store, with prebuilt agents from Microsoft and partners An Azure AI Foundry Agent Service that lets developers build AI agents for business processes, such as coordinating healthcare Azure AI Foundry Local, which enables developers to run agents on local macOS and Windows hardware A Computer Using Agent that lets agents control desktop and web apps in a virtual machine Entra Agent ID for authenticating AI agents (or coworkers, as Microsoft calls them) à la the human-concerned Active Directory A Microsoft 365 Agents SDK for building agents in Office apps A Microsoft 365 Copilot app for human-agent collaboration The Entra identity for agents is key to Microsoft's strategy. "Agentic AI is gaining momentum for its ability to combine large language models with reasoning to deliver real outcomes," said IDC's group vice president of security and trust, Frank Dickson. "As we scale autonomous capabilities, identity becomes critical—robust authentication, access provisioning, fine-grained authorization, and governance are essential." Microsoft is also announcing tools to help with creating agents. Copilot Tuning, for example, lets you train AI models on your business's internal data and impose restrictions on its use and permissions. Support for a couple of existing public protocols will help the widespread adoption of agents, too. The first is Model Context Protocol (MCP), which allows agents access to data and services and supports public or private repositories of the agents. The second is NLWeb, which Microsoft bills as the HTML of the agentic web. According to Microsoft's press materials, 'NLWeb makes it easy for websites to provide a conversational interface for their users with only a few lines of code, the model of their choice and their own data, allowing users to interact directly with web content in a rich, semantic manner.' Microsoft is leaning hard into AI agents, and these technologies indeed seem capable of making the web and Windows more powerful. But what about the nightmare scenario of uncontrolled and malicious AI? After all, rogue AI agents can do a lot of damage with access to all the sensitive data associated with the above products and services. In a related , Microsoft CVP David Weston acknowledges risks of attacks from a exposing sensitive functionality, prompt injection, , unwanted remote access, and others. Weston says, 'The goal for Windows 11 as an agentic OS is to provide the strongest fundamental security capabilities while also evolving and adapting to emerging threats.' Microsoft has itemized security principles for AI on Windows, too. It requires developers to employ the principle of least privilege and code isolation, meet a baseline set of security requirements, and put the user in control for sensitive operations. Windows 11 will include technology controls to enforce those principles, including routing agentic interactions through a secure proxy for mediation, a requirement for top-level user authorization to access tools, a central server registry of trustworthy AI agent sources, and runtime isolation to limit the 'blast radius' should an attack occur. Will it be enough? Probably, in most cases. But I expect to see some security bumps in the road to agentic AI in Windows and elsewhere. It's reassuring that Microsoft seems to be taking the issue seriously, at least. Weston states, 'Security is not a one-time feature—it's a continuous commitment.' Let's hope the commitment is strong enough to avoid major catastrophes for your computer and beyond.
