In today's shifting economic climate, Microsoft is focused on helping organizations in every industry use technology to overcome challenges and emerge stronger. That's why I'm pleased to kick off a series of posts exploring how Surface provides the best devices for the modern cloud.
Let's start with the financial services industry's unrivaled demands for timely, accurate information across global markets. Consider that Reuters transmits more than 276,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Key people can log in from anywhere. And, like it or not, hybrid work is here to stay. So how do you make it work?
Hybrid work requires more sophisticated and secure devices, communications, and collaboration tools to empower employees to work and connect with colleagues and customers from anywhere.
Microsoft Surface for Business offers a versatile device portfolio with industry-leading security to empower financial services professionals to work from anywhere while delivering more personalized and differentiated customer experiences. Here are a few examples of financial roles that can benefit from Surface devices:
To provide the best customer experience, companies need to harness data and use technology to predict future needs and serve customers in a way they did not even expect. Let's see what that looks like for critical roles across financial services.
Loan officers who process home improvement loans at your local bank face increasingly knowledgeable customers who demand more personalization and consistent experience when shopping for the best deal. These frontline workers may struggle to access apps and data away from their desks.
Top challenges in such a role can include:
Customer service is your priority, but it's not easy when you don't have information within reach. Provide branch workers with premium devices that project your brand image when engaging with customers and ensure high performance when running LOB apps.
With Surface Go 3, branch workers can:
As high-net-worth individuals access most financial services online, they demand the highest customer service and professionalism from wealth advisors. To keep pace with emerging technology while growing their client base, wealth advisors routinely face complex challenges every day, including:
Help clients plan their financial futures with Surface Pro 8. Enhance customer experience and increase client loyalty by going to your clients' places of work or home. Connect more impactfully with versatile form factors, built-in LTE connectivity, and protection by the best modern security and manageability platform from Microsoft (Surface powered by M365).
With Surface Pro 8 LTE, wealth advisors can:
As specialists in their field, investment analysts face hurdles unique to their role with the speed and volume of information that needs to be processed, including:
Analysts can help determine the best investments on a Surface Laptop Studio capable of meeting the high compute demands of business-critical software and complex financial models.
With Surface Laptop Studio, analysts can:
Leading economists have described the move to working from home as the most significant shock to labor markets in decades. Navigating the complexities of Hybrid work is a top priority for many organizations across the financial industry. Companies are facing a myriad of challenges, including:
To drive more inclusive meetings for hybrid teams, the Surface Hub 2S is a powerful meetings platform certified for Microsoft Teams.
With Surface Hub 2S, financial services teams can:
Microsoft Cloud solutions help organizations work better and smarter by connecting people and teams across every role and function and externally to customers and partners. Companies can grow their business by capitalizing on three patterns of work: enabling hybrid work, bringing collaborative experiences directly into the flow of work, and creating a digital employee experience.
Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services helps you deploy solutions across Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Power Platform. Get started today: Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services | Microsoft
Here's a quick summary of how Surface devices and Microsoft 365 help financial services companies enable hybrid work while mitigating risk:
To recap, whatever your role or workload, Surface for Business has the right device for you to power the full stack of Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services solutions.
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1. Battery life varies significantly based on usage, network and feature configuration, signal strength, settings and other factors. See aka.ms/SurfaceBatteryPerformance for details.
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