Microsoft Association of Practicing Architects (MAPA)


25257 Total Members from 2116 Organizations spread across 142 Countries Members by Work Profile: Responding to RFI/RFPs 7126 ; Part of a Business Consulting Practice 4346 ; Creating Products/IP/Solutions 7071 ; Part of a Center of Excellence 4954 Members by Workload Focus: Cloud 12351 ; Data Center 6764 ; Big Data 3159 ; CRM 2668 ; Data Insights 1557 ; CRM Online 1382 Members by Vertical Focus: Banking & Financial services 7533 ; Insurance 4097 ; Retail 4652 ; Manufacturing 4926 ; Healthcare 4257 ; Life Sciences 2029 ; Telecommunication 4499 ; Travel & Transport 2461 Members enrolled in the MAPA Champs Program: 2285 in Azure Champs since last 19 months ; 502 in Office 365 Champs since last 15 months 1014 Members signed up to register for Iasa benefits since last 12 months 580K+ Member Interactions

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MAPA - Microsoft Association of Practicing Architects is a global community of IT Architects. The program empowers its members with a community to interact and engage with fellow members all over the globe and also gives them a channel to communicate back to Microsoft. Coming with tons of free benefits, the program is continuously evolving to become more relevant to its members.

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Data Platform :

Because it’s Friday: Movie Trailer :

Via Gizmodo, this generic template for a AAA movie trailer recalls that generic brand video from a couple of years back.That's all for us for this week. Have a great weekend, we'll be back on Monday!.... Know More

Azure :

Azure Service Bus .NET Standard Client Generally Available :

Azure Service Bus .NET Standard client is generally available. With it comes support for .NET Core and the .NET framework. And as mentioned in an earlier post it also supports Mono/Xamarin for cross-platform application development. This is only the start of greater things to come... Know More

Secure Productive Enterpirse :

Role Based Access Control: A Configuration Manager favorite, now in Intune :

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) has been a favorite feature of the System Center Configuration Manager community since its introduction, and now its available in Intune. RBAC in Intune enables you to easily define who can perform various Intune tasks within your organization, and who those tasks apply to.... Know More

Dynamics 365 :

Don’t get left behind - 3 ways to enhance your customer service :

Switching banks used to be a laborious ordeal, but today it can be done quickly and easily. It also doesn’t take much to convince a customer to switch—36% of consumers say the primary reason... Know More

Case Studies :

King County improves resident services with cloud software :

Like many government organizations, King County, Washington, has many legacy business systems in desperate need of modernization. The county is using Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a rapid application development engine to replatform these legacy applications and create new information systems. By using Dynamics 365 as the foundation for its internal and customer-facing systems, King County can get new government services out in weeks versus months, reduce development and maintenance costs, simplify technology use, and create shared record systems across applications. Know More

Forth Coming Techchnologies :

In Nevada desert, Microsoft tests AI-controlled soaring machine :

Microsoft researchers have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to keep a type of glider known as a sailplane in the air without using a motor, by autonomously finding and catching rides on naturally occurring thermals, similar to how many birds stay aloft.... Know More

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What's New

  • Archgarage – A platform with powerful tools, templates and guidance from Microsoft SMEs, to rationalize cloud opportunities and to build IP / Solutions
  • Additions to MAPA Champs: Linux on Azure
  • MOOC’s: Launching soon Microsoft related ‘Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)’ as a Resource.

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