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MSCI Announces Strategic Alliance With Microsoft to Accelerate Innovation in the Global Investment Industry
(BUSINESS WIRE/AETOSWire)– 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
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.”
