27 Photo: Adobe Stock/DC Studio For the first time, Microsoft Azure has surpassed $75 billion in revenue in financial year 2025 (ending 30 June), representing a 34 per cent year-overyear increase. “We have come a long way from Project Red Dog... we now add as much capacity in a month as we did in our first five years,” Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO at Microsoft wrote on LinkedIn. “Super grateful for the trust so many customers have placed in us through the years.” DID YOU KNOW? Synergy Technical, a cloud solutions provider, is offering an AI Transformation Strategy Engagement programme to help organisations leverage AI effectively while ensuring security and compliance. This in-depth engagement identifies AI opportunities across a business, evaluates vendor offerings and builds a customised roadmap for adoption. Organisations receive actionable insights into AI integration, security best practices, vendor evaluation and phased implementation strategies. With a focus on tailored solutions and user enablement, Synergy Technical empowers businesses to get the most from their AI investments while accelerating collaboration, innovation and operational efficiency. Synergy Technical helps organisations turn AI potential into performance According to AVIXA’s 2025 Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis, 70 per cent of companies use outdated video conferencing solutions. However, with hybrid working becoming more commonplace, meeting room and remote office toolsets need to evolve accordingly. One headwind is the high costs of large-scale upgrades, but progress is being made. The global conferencing and collaboration market is valued at more than $60 billion, including products, services and channel costs. Driving adoption is the next generation of solutions, namely cloud-based tools, which comprise more than a third of the market. Meanwhile, AI tools are adding automation and efficiency to meeting management. 70 per cent of firms operating with outdated conferencing tools Infrastructure firm Balfour Beatty has made a £7.2 million ($9.8 million) investment in Microsoft 365 Copilot to help 27,000 employees use AI to plan smarter, inspect sites instantly and cut costly errors. DID YOU KNOW? Conferencing and Collaboration Market ($bn) Source: AVIXA IOTA 59.0 63.3 60.9 2024 2025 2026
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