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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

For most enterprises, this involves deploying existing industry-specific offerings from SaaS providers or hypervisors. German vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen is one enterprise going the co-creation route, building its own industry cloud for automobile manufacturing in concert with AWS and MHP, a Porsche-owned IT consultant.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Bland was previously Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy of Science, where she led insights into science as an open enterprise. Twitter: @pesska.

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