To be future-ready, companies must start combining AI, human skills, and trusted partnerships now. After all, climate change is happening now. Rising sea levels, and intensifying wildfires, storms, droughts and floods hammer home that message every day. The damage is undeniable, and the clock is ticking. Let's be clear: clean energy and efficient energy management are key to attacking the climate crisis.

There's increasing momentum to optimize operations with digital processes and meet customers where they are digitally. But how can enterprises manage this change in a secure way? Over the past 18 months, enterprises have drastically accelerated the shift to optimize their operations with digital processes. On top of this, customers are becoming increasingly digital, and this behavior is predicted to continue even as the world opens up further, and customers have more options. Enterprises face some tough challenges as they optimize their infrastructures to better meet changing customer demands and advance their key business priorities.

Tight deadlines, fierce competition, and demanding customers are putting an increasing amount of pressure on organizations to improve the quality of their output and optimize the speed at which they deliver it. Emerging technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) & virtual reality (VR), big data, and blockchain have helped organizations get better by presenting them with the opportunity to disrupt virtually every business process. IoT solutions and AI solutions are both are unique and carry the potential to digitally transform an enterprise. In fact, it is projected that companies could invest up to $15 trillion in IoT by 2025. Some believe that the Internet of Things offers a potential economic impact of $4 trillion to $11 trillion per year by 2025.

Dynamics 365 Commerce, now in preview, delivers a complete omnichannel solution that unifies back-office, in-store, and digital experiences built on Dynamics 365 Retail capabilities. Retail is one of those industries that everyone can relate to. Shopping is ingrained in our daily lives, with today's consumer demanding engaging and integrated shopping experiences across storefronts–physical stores, online and mobile. As traditional commerce channels are disrupted and new ones emerge, shoppers have ever-greater control of their experience, from researching product price and quality to maximize the value of every dollar spent, to purchasing from the brand that offers the most personalized, convenient service. With this power shift comes a great opportunity for retailers.