{"id":21279,"date":"2022-04-05T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=21279"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:13:25","slug":"microsofts-digital-transformation-group-head-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsofts-digital-transformation-group-head-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Digital Transformation Group Head Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_0\" data-ar-index=\"0\">Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie has announced the departure of Digital Transformation Group James Phillips.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"1\">The email confirming Phillips&#8217; departure said the executive was leaving for an unspecified &#8220;external opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"2\">Microsoft Digital Transformation Group focuses on Microsoft&#8217;s Cloud and AI businesses. The group includes Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure AI Platform, Azure Data Platform, Azure IoT Platform and the growing family of Microsoft Cloud for Industry solutions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"3\">Philips joined Microsoft in 2012 as a strategic advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then president of Microsoft&#8217;s Cloud and Enterprise Division. In March 2021, Philips was appointed head of the new Digital Transformation Group.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"4\">Guthrie said Charles Lamanna will continue to lead the Business Applications &amp; Platform organization, Eric Boyd will continue to lead the AI platform organization and Rohan Kumar will continue to lead the Azure Data organization.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"5\">The three people will join Guthrie&#8217;s C + AI leadership team and report directly to him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"6\">For more information read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-president-of-15000-person-digital-transformation-group-james-phillips-is-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie has announced the departure of Digital Transformation Group James Phillips. The email confirming Phillips&#8217; departure said the executive was leaving for an unspecified &#8220;external opportunity.&#8221; Microsoft Digital Transformation Group focuses on Microsoft&#8217;s Cloud and AI businesses. The group includes Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure AI Platform, Azure Data Platform, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,349,378],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-21279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-data-analytics","category-development","category-digital-transformation","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21282,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21279\/revisions\/21282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}