A new Walmart ‘cloud factory’ will accelerate digital innovation, boost business efficiency.   Walmart is expanding its technology center in Austin, Texas, to accelerate digital innovation that transforms how associates work and delivers more convenient ways for customers to shop. About 30 technologists, including engineers from both Walmart and Microsoft, will work together side by side in the cloud factory, expected to open in early 2019 as an extension to a strategic partnership announced in July. The factory will be an expansion of Walmart’s innovation hub, a vibrant workplace opened earlier this year in the center of Austin’s growing technology scene. The Walmart-Microsoft project team – known internally as “4.co” for its location at Fourth and Colorado streets – will initially focus on migrating Walmart’s thousands of internal   business applications to Microsoft Azure. The team will also build new, cloud-native applications. The collaboration will be part of a multi-year journey to modernize Walmart’s enterprise application portfolio, create more efficient business processes and decrease operational costs associated with legacy architecture. The work will continue digital solutions already deployed at Walmart, including thousands of Internet of Thing (IoT) sensors on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration systems that process a billion daily data messages from stores worldwide. The solution helps Walmart save energy and prevent product loss. Based in Arkansas, the global retailer is also deploying Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a number of use cases, including internal chatbots that help associates navigate benefits, find mentors and better manage supplier engagements. Walmart has also deployed a natural language processing platform capable of processing 40 terabytes of unstructured text and providing near real-time insights and actions in support of business operations. Source: Vanessa Ho, “A new Walmart ‘cloud factory’ will accelerate digital innovation, boost business efficiency.,” Microsoft, Nov 5, 2018. https://news.microsoft.com/transform/new-walmart-cloud-factory-innovation-business-efficiency The Walmart-Microsoft project team focus on migrating Walmart’s into new business application using Microsoft Azure. The analysis also found that, this is an approach that carries some risk, but that is dictated by intense competition and able to gain opportunities for growth. SWOT analysis framework is one of the method to help identify the broad negative and positive risks that apply to a project.   (a) Define the SWOT, then illustrate and explain SWOT analysis framework details for Walmart’s project migration to Microsoft Azure. ((and thank you so much))

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A new Walmart ‘cloud factory’ will accelerate digital innovation, boost business

efficiency.

 

Walmart is expanding its technology center in Austin, Texas, to accelerate digital innovation

that transforms how associates work and delivers more convenient ways for customers to

shop. About 30 technologists, including engineers from both Walmart and Microsoft, will

work together side by side in the cloud factory, expected to open in early 2019 as an

extension to a strategic partnership announced in July. The factory will be an expansion of

Walmart’s innovation hub, a vibrant workplace opened earlier this year in the center of

Austin’s growing technology scene.

The Walmart-Microsoft project team – known internally as “4.co” for its location at

Fourth and Colorado streets – will initially focus on migrating Walmart’s thousands of internal

 

business applications to Microsoft Azure. The team will also build new, cloud-native

applications. The collaboration will be part of a multi-year journey to modernize Walmart’s

enterprise application portfolio, create more efficient business processes and decrease

operational costs associated with legacy architecture. The work will continue digital solutions

already deployed at Walmart, including thousands of Internet of Thing (IoT) sensors on

heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration systems that process a

billion daily data messages from stores worldwide. The solution helps Walmart save energy

and prevent product loss.

Based in Arkansas, the global retailer is also deploying Microsoft Artificial Intelligence

(AI) in a number of use cases, including internal chatbots that help associates navigate

benefits, find mentors and better manage supplier engagements. Walmart has also deployed

a natural language processing platform capable of processing 40 terabytes of unstructured

text and providing near real-time insights and actions in support of business operations.

Source: Vanessa Ho, “A new Walmart ‘cloud factory’ will accelerate digital innovation, boost business

efficiency.,” Microsoft, Nov 5, 2018.

https://news.microsoft.com/transform/new-walmart-cloud-factory-innovation-business-efficiency

The Walmart-Microsoft project team focus on migrating Walmart’s into new business

application using Microsoft Azure. The analysis also found that, this is an approach that

carries some risk, but that is dictated by intense competition and able to gain opportunities

for growth. SWOT analysis framework is one of the method to help identify the broad

negative and positive risks that apply to a project.

 

(a) Define the SWOT, then illustrate and explain SWOT analysis framework details for Walmart’s project migration to Microsoft Azure.

((and thank you so much)) 

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