Hyderabad : Microsoft India agreed to offer technologies to improve delivery of public services in Andhra Pradesh, while the state government requested the IT giant to consider setting up a Centre of Excellence in Visakhapatnam.
The government signed a MOU with Microsoft over the technology offer.
The state government, in a press release issued earlier, claimed Microsoft has agreed to set up a Centre of Excellence in Visakhapatnam. However, an updated release said the state has requested Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to consider setting up a CoE in the coastal city.
The IT giant will support building of up to three proof-of-concept (POC) solutions to apply Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Advanced Visualisation tool in the fields of education, agriculture and eCitizen services. This technology will help in achieving sustainable doubt-digit growth and better public services.
“These POC solutions will be built and deployed to address specific problems within each of the fields to achieve better outcomes for the State. It would use the lab method for data gathering, analysis, predictive analysis and policy planning.”
Microsoft will provide training to the government’s executives on its technologies such as cloud and mobility. The firm will organise an exclusive workshop for the Government’s key administrative officers for improving productivity by using Microsoft technologies, it said.
“We are excited about leveraging the power of Microsoft cloud and mobile technologies for the success of Andhra Pradesh. We are deepening our partnership with the state to harness Microsoft’s intelligent cloud and provide the government access to massive computing capability that can be used to transform people’s lives and businesses, as well as to address some of the biggest societal challenges in the State and across the nation,” Anil Bhansali, MD, Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd said.
Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, Nasscom Chairman B V R Mohan Reddy and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories CEO G V Prasad were also present during Nadella’s visit at the T-Hub.