{"id":94953,"date":"2026-07-04T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/94953\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:24:13","slug":"microsoft-ai-adoption-microsoft-unveils-ai-division-of-6000-employees-to-transform-business-operations-etcio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/94953\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI Adoption: Microsoft Unveils AI Division of 6,000 Employees to Transform Business Operations, ETCIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is setting up a new organisation with 6,000 employees to help businesses with the technical and strategic work of deploying artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The division\u2019s workers will have experience across engineering, corporate training and management, as well as within specific industries, Microsoft announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Working more closely with customers will help them implement <a id=\"6355999\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"AI\" source=\"Orion\" class=\"news-keywords\" href=\"https:\/\/cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tag\/ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> more efficiently and inform Microsoft\u2019s own product development decisions, Judson Althoff, chief executive officer of Microsoft\u2019s commercial business, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, software vendors have left this kind of lower-margin implementation work to consulting companies. But in the AI era, many have found that businesses need additional help deploying cutting-edge-tools.<\/p>\n<p>Popularised by Palantir Technologies Inc., the model of deploying engineers within customer organizations has since been adopted by vendors from Salesforce Inc. to OpenAI. Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s cloud unit on Tuesday announced a similar effort.<\/p>\n<p>The idea came in part from customer concerns about the ballooning costs of AI, Althoff said.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Published On Jul 4, 2026 at 09:10 AM IST<\/p>\n<p>\n                Join the community of 2M+ industry professionals.<br \/>\n                Subscribe to Newsletter to get latest insights &amp; analysis in your inbox.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                    All about ETCIO industry right on your smartphone! <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cio_barcode.png\" alt=\"\"\/>                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is setting up a new organisation with 6,000 employees to help businesses with the technical and strategic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,49621,49623,3766,49620,420,7829,8380,320,7828,49619,49624,49622,163],"class_list":["post-94953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-ai","tag-ai-consulting-services","tag-ai-deployment-strategies","tag-ai-workforce","tag-artificial-intelligence-implementation","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-making-ai-work","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai","tag-microsoft-ai-adoption","tag-microsoft-commercial-business","tag-technical-support-for-ai","tag-technology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}