Microsoft, Adobe and SAP are out to prove the Open Data Initiative is open
Summary
The first 12 companies joining the ODI Partner Council are Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, Change Healthcare, Cognizant, EY, Finastra, Genesys, Hootsuite, Inmobi, Sprinklr and WPP . In a separate Ignite session, however, Microsoft did reveal a bit more about some of the components and plans for ODI. Adobe and SAP previously had committed to making Azure their preferred (though not exclusive) cloud platform. Microsoft officials said that "in the coming months" they would deliver "a new approach for publishing, enriching and ingesting initial data feeds from Adobe Experience Platform, activated through Adobe Experience Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Office 365 and SAP C/4HANA, into a customers data lake. " Microsoft and its ODI partners say this infrastructure will allow users to take advantage of "a new level of AI and machine learning enrichment.
