I’m thrilled to stock quality astir the improvement of our endeavor mapping bundle improvement kit (SDK) and API offerings. Today, we’re announcing the unification of our endeavor maps offerings nether Microsoft Azure Maps.¹ We are combining the technologies and information successful Bing Maps for Enterprise with Azure Maps and retiring Bing Maps for Enterprise. This marks a important milestone arsenic we alteration our endeavor maps offerings to absorption connected creating a level that empowers our customers to innovate and bring their ideas to beingness utilizing cutting-edge innovations successful AI and cloud—all connected a trusted platform.  

This unification enables our customers to accelerate innovation by leveraging different Microsoft Azure unreality services portion retaining galore acquainted features from Bing Maps for Enterprise wrong Azure Maps. Moreover, Azure Maps introduces respective features not recovered successful Bing Maps for Enterprise, including precocious work authentication methods, information residency compliance, geolocation, upwind information, and customized indoor maps. Unifying our endeavor maps offerings nether Azure Maps volition greatly simplify our endeavor mapping offerings making it easier for customers to bargain and usage our services successful a mode that is accordant with different services astatine Microsoft.

The conception of “where” has go integral to the decision-making and however organizations navigate done the analyzable concern environment. While the request for geospatial accusation continues to grow, the discourse of “when” and “how” we utilize this accusation is evolving. At Microsoft, we person observed however technologies successful unreality and AI are reshaping however our customers prosecute with the services we offer. 

Making the modulation to Azure Maps

Bing Maps for Enterprise customers volition person ample clip nether their existing and renewed contracts to modulation to Azure Maps. Bing Maps for Enterprise volition beryllium retired connected June 30, 2028, existing Bing Maps for Enterprise customers tin proceed to licence Bing Maps for Enterprise APIs and services until then. We volition nevertheless nary longer beryllium accepting caller Bing Maps for Enterprise customers from June 30, 2024. Customers with an endeavor licence person until June 30, 2028, to modulation to Azure Maps, portion customers connected the escaped and basal licence for Bing Maps for Enterprise person until June 30, 2025. We are committed to facilitating this modulation and look guardant to having you articulation america connected this journey.  

Simplifying and enhancing done Microsoft products

Currently, millions of developers and businesses person entree to geospatial accusation done a scope of Microsoft products—Excel, Power BI successful Microsoft Fabric, and Dynamics 365. Customers usage our geospatial services to negociate wildfires, respond to nationalist emergencies, present products to consumers doorsteps, and truthful overmuch more.  

IT managers and developers are progressively seeking tools that assistance them accommodate to the increasing demands for much information and greater agility successful the business-critical solutions they build. These demands widen beyond the solutions themselves; they besides use to the gathering blocks utilized to conception those solutions. As exertion complexity rises, our customers are progressively requesting ways to simplify development, heighten collaboration, and make robust solutions with less integration points. By unifying our offerings, we tin prioritize investments successful supporting the ways that developers are gathering endeavor applications today.  

Integrating with Azure solutions

Our customers question to present concern interaction by leveraging AI services and tools wrong their solutions. The inclusion of Azure Maps successful the Azure level brings geospatial information person to different Azure services, facilitating seamless integration. Azure Maps customers already payment from AI profoundly embedded successful industry-leading functions similar geocoding. Being portion of the Azure ecosystem besides streamlines entree to complementary services from the Azure Marketplace. At Microsoft Build 2024, we announced the availability of NVIDIA’s cuOpt service wrong the Azure Marketplace. NVIDIA cuOpt, a world-record holding graphics processing portion (GPU)-accelerated optimization AI microservice, assists teams successful solving analyzable routing problems with aggregate constraints. By combining cuOpt with Azure Maps, customers tin execute dynamic routing and real-time re-optimization astatine scale, driving efficiencies and gross growth. Azure Maps, alongside the Azure Marketplace, opens up caller avenues for innovation, enabling businesses to tackle divers challenges.    

The aggregation of geospatial accusation with further information unlocks caller insights for businesses, enabling them to trim operating costs, make caller revenue, and present amended services to their customers. Azure Maps provides a holistic view, allowing you to recognize not lone what happened but besides wherever it happened. By leveraging Azure Maps, you tin marque intelligent decisions and pivot faster by correlating the determination of your concern elements with your wide concern goals. This predisposition empowers your squad to comprehend the concern and illustration a way forward.

Start enhancing your determination information today

Understanding “where” translates to knowing however to amended and determination ahead. With Azure Maps, your enactment gains easier entree to, utilization of, and insights from determination data. By combining our industry-leading unreality infrastructure with accurate, reliable determination information and Microsoft applications similar Power BI, you tin make predictive insights for your business. 

Explore our caller Azure Maps solutions. 

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¹ Azure Maps is the adjacent procreation geospatial unreality work offered by Microsoft Maps. It has been created specifically, with Microsoft Developers and Enterprise Customers successful mind, to supply scalable determination capabilities and applicable geographical data. 

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