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Connect your customers, your people, and your data.

 

Deliver seamless experiences across the shopper journey

Microsoft Cloud for Retail brings together different data sources across the retail value chain and uniquely connects experiences across the end-to-end shopper journey through a set of capabilities that deliver more relevant personalized experiences and operational excellence for sustained profitability.

Know your customers

Identify, adapt, and serve evolving customer needs for deeper engagement across all channels.

Empower your employees

Enable your people with the tools to deliver exceptional customer service.

Build resilient supply chains

Create more agile, responsive supply chains to meet customer demand at scale.

Reimagine retail

Accelerate innovation to pivot your business model toward the future.

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Capabilities

Microsoft Cloud for Retail

Increase demand for your products

Achieve greater relevance in search results right out of the box and gain access to large, diverse audiences.

Personalize the customer journey

Tailor online experiences and increase conversion with more relevant product search and Intelligent Recommendations.

Make the most of your ad buys

Identify customer intent to deliver engaging, personalized experiences that increase loyalty and return on digital marketing ad spend.

Streamline operations

Improve the shopping experience and optimize for conversion with a single view of the customer across all channels.

Empower employees with the tools they need

Streamline communications and the daily rhythm of business by giving your employees the tools they need to meet evolving customer expectations.

Enhance multichannel operations

Quickly implement anonymous smart tracking of store activity, and implement A/B testing to improve sell-through and profitability.

Deliver a safer purchase experience

Drive purchase conversion across online, in-store, and social channels in a secure environment.

Drive stronger conversion rates

Increase engagement and conversion across online, in-store, and social channels.

Help prevent payment and digital fraud

Help defend against fraud with adaptive AI technology that continuously learns evolving fraud patterns.

Optimize fulfillment and service

Streamline your fulfillment process and digitize your customer service offering.

Maximize multichannel fulfillment

Reimagine curbside pickup with enhanced capabilities, including pickup scheduling, more efficient on-site order handling, and customer notifications.

Delight your customers

Get a complete yet composable multichannel solution that unifies back-office, in-store, and digital experiences to meet evolving customer expectations.

Leverage your customer data

Understand your customers’ behaviors to inform your future supply chain and store operational needs.

Generate a high-margin revenue stream

Streamline and scale e-commerce website monetization ad programs with a complete commerce marketing platform.

Build resilient supply chains

Manage your supply chain to get the right products to the right customers at the right time.

Manage inventory more effectively

Reduce stock-outs and optimize assortments with real-time planning to deliver the right inventory to the right place at the right time with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

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Protecting against fraud and loss

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Trimming audit times

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Optimizing in-store operations

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Learn about Microsoft products for retail

Azure

Deliver personalized customer experiences, empower employees, optimize supply chains, and reimagine retail.

Dynamics 365

Engage customers with confidence and agility with the help of industry-leading capabilities, architecture, and AI.

Microsoft Advertising

Use ad solutions to maximize campaign performance across the shopper journey.

Microsoft Power Platform

Analyze data with Power BI, build solutions, automate processes, and create virtual agents.

Microsoft PromoteIQ

Generate ad revenue by enabling trusted brand partners to promote products on your digital channels.

Microsoft Teams

Give frontline workers the collaboration tools they need.

GitHub Enterprise

Transform development with application security, workflow automation, and redefined collaboration.

Intelligent Recommendations

Drive better engagement, conversion, revenue, and customer satisfaction with the same best-in-class recommendations service that powers Microsoft recommended content on Xbox, Windows and Azure.

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