MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) and Microsoft Corp. have formed a
strategic alliance to accelerate innovation among the global
investment industry. By bringing together the power of Microsoft’s
cloud and AI technologies with MSCI’s global reach through its
portfolio of investment decision support tools, the companies will
unlock new innovations for the industry and enhance MSCI’s client
experience among the world’s most sophisticated investors,
including asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds and banks.
Initially, the companies will focus on migrating MSCI’s existing
products, data and services onto Azure as its preferred cloud
platform in stages, starting with its Index and Analytics solutions
followed by its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) products
and ratings; Real Estate data and solutions; and MSCI’s risk
analytics platform Beon. By modernizing MSCI’s data and analytics
services and infrastructure, the companies will be able to deliver
new capabilities which will help investors more swiftly and
efficiently manage data and understand the drivers of risk and
performance.
In addition, MSCI and Microsoft will explore collaboration
opportunities to drive climate risk and ESG solutions, leveraging
Microsoft’s Azure and Power Platform and MSCI’s ESG and climate
solutions capabilities. This future collaboration, in line with
both organizations’ commitment to sustainability, is intended to
help investors better understand and interpret the business risks
and opportunities that climate change brings.
“Investors’ needs to rapidly innovate and adapt as strategies
and business models evolve, build and manage big data, and improve
operational efficiencies are growing at a critical speed around the
world,” said Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of MSCI. “Our
strategic alliance with Microsoft underscores MSCI’s commitment to
driving relentless innovation in the technology of our products and
services to help investors achieve their desired investment
outcomes.”
“Our strategic collaboration with Microsoft is the latest step
in our long and established heritage of innovation and we are
excited about the long-term potential of this relationship,” added
Jigar Thakkar, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Engineering at
MSCI. “MSCI is a future-focused business and Azure enables us not
just to enhance our capabilities and client solutions of today, but
also provide the platform to accelerate our journey in building
world-class technology and tools to solve the investment industry’s
challenges of tomorrow.”
“Investors rely on cutting-edge technologies to deliver
intelligent insights, manage risk and detect anomalies so they can
help customers achieve their investment goals,” said Scott Guthrie,
Executive Vice President, Cloud +AI, Microsoft. “By harnessing the
power of Azure and its AI capabilities, together with MSCI’s
expertise and position within the investment ecosystem, we will be
able to accelerate new innovations that help investors better
optimize their clients’ performance capabilities.”
“This alliance opens exciting frontiers for the global
investment community,” said Merrie Williamson, Microsoft VP of
Azure Apps and Infrastructure. “The combination of MSCI’s
relentless pursuit of innovation with Microsoft’s deep data
expertise, expansive partner ecosystem, and go-to-market
capabilities forms an alliance with the potential to accelerate the
investment industry.”
About MSCI
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools
and services for the global investment community. With over 45
years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power
better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and
analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more
effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced
solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve
transparency across the investment process. To learn more, please
visit www.msci.com.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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