Skip to main content

Flipkart and Microsoft forge cloud partnership to expand e-commerce in India

Microsoft Corp. and Flipkart, India’s leading marketplace, on Monday announced a strategic partnership to provide consumers in India with the best online shopping service. As a first step in the broad collaboration between the two companies, Flipkart will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Flipkart Group CEO and co-founder Binny Bansal announced the news at an event in Bangalore. As a first step in this collaboration between the two companies, Flipkart will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform.
Nadella noted that Microsoft aims to empower every Indian organization with technology, and the key to this would be by forging partnerships with companies like Flipkart. He said,
"At Microsoft, we aim to empower every Indian and every Indian organization with technology, and key to this is forging strategic partnerships with innovative companies like Flipkart," Nadella said. "Combining Microsoft's cloud platform and AI capabilities with Flipkart's existing services and data assets will enable Flipkart to accelerate its digital transformation in e-commerce and deliver new customer experiences."
Binny Bansal, Group CEO and co-founder, Flipkart, said that Flipkart, currently in its tenth year of existence is committed to the vision of transforming commerce in India through technology. He added,
"Flipkart has always been committed to its vision of transforming commerce in India through technology," Bansal said. "Given Microsoft’s strong reputation in cloud computing, coupled with scale and reliability, this partnership allows us to leverage our combined strength and knowledge of technology, e-commerce and markets to make online shopping more relevant and enriching for customers."
Flipkart then had relatively glitch-free Big Billion Day sales in the subsequent years. Now, rather than continuing investing in its own infrastructure, Flipkart seems to have partnered with an enemy of its enemy, Microsoft, by taking its business to Microsoft Azure.

Read On :  WordPress / UCNews

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Google will release a Pixel 2 smartphone this year

Google is keeping information to a premium, its typical development cycle suggests a Pixel 2 will go on sale in the fourth quarter . The current Pixel launched in October 2016 and Google has held launch events at around the same time for Nexus phones in the past. Google 's head of hardware Rick Osterloh talked about the Pixel and its future. The former Motorola exec revealed that Google has some sort of problem with Pixel and Pixel XL manufacturing right now. There are too few devices to meet demand, and some kind of supply bottleneck preventing the company it from fixing it. It's unclear what exactly is causing these manufacturing issues. As for the Pixel 2 , Osterloh would not confirm a release date, but he did imply the next phone should arrive a year after its predecessor . " There is an annual rhythm in the industry. So, you can count on us to follow it, " the Google executive Osterloh told at Mobile World Congress . " You can count ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Samsung Galaxy S8 Leak Shows the Device In Its Full Glory

Samsung' s upcoming flagship the Galaxy S8 is one of the most anticipated smartphones. The Galaxy S8 has been rumored for months now, and leaked details have revealed almost everything there is about the smartphone. At the ongoing MWC 2017 , Samsung revealed that it would launch its next Galaxy flagship smartphone on March 29 . Samsung is also expected to unveil the Galaxy S8+ along with the Galaxy S8. Even as we are inching closer to the official launch of the Galaxy S8, there's just no stopping to its leaks. Evan Blass , professional spoiler of well kept smartphone secrets, is revealing the most-anticipated non-iPhone of 2017, Samsung's Galaxy S8 . His new image reveals a handset that agrees wholeheartedly with Samsung's Mobile World Congress teaser of a device with utterly minimal front bezels . It also features Samsung’'s confirmed date for the launch, March 29th , and gives us a good look at what's presumably going to be the lock screen welcomin...
Post a Comment
Read more

Huawei P10/P10 Plus official countdown page launched

The official unveil of the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus seems a simple formality, as the Chinese company already shared important information about these flagships with the world. But if you can't get enough of Huawei 's teasers, here is another one that's been recently published on the event's official website . A countdown now indicates that there are still 4 days and eight hours until both phones will be unveiled. Huawei P10 and P10 Plus will be announced on February 26 during a press conference, which will be streamed live on YouTube and possibly Facebook. The launch event starts at 14:00 PM CET and it's supposed to end two hours later. The 1-minute video teaser is also the longest Huawei published until now, but we don't get any major information about the phones that we didn't already know. The Chinese company hints once again at a dual-lens camera that will be packed inside both P10 and P10 Plus smartphones. Reports say the flagships wil...
Post a Comment
Read more