Walmart and Microsoft Partner on AI, IoT and Cloud Solutions
Walmart Inc. announced it is establishing a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to further accelerate Walmart’s digital transformation in retail, empower its associates worldwide and make shopping faster and easier for customers around the world.
Walmart is already using Microsoft services for critical applications and workloads, and is now embarking on a broad set of cloud innovation projects that leverage machine learning, artificial intelligence and data platform solutions for external customer-facing services and internal business applications. The flexible, secure and rapidly scalable global technology will significantly accelerate Walmart’s ability to execute in three key areas: