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Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Cognizant Technology Solutions second-quarter 2021 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] Thank you. I would now like to turn this conference over to Mr. Tyler Scott, vice president of investor relations.
Please go ahead, sir. You may begin.
Tyler Scott
Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. By now you should have received a copy of the earnings release and investor supplement for the company s second-quarter 2021 results. If you have not, copies are available on our website, cognizant.com. The speakers we have on today s call are Brian Humphries, chief executive officer; and Jan Siegmund, chief financial officer.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform sales soared as the tech giant’s total revenue hit a record US$41.7 billion for its most recent quarter, up 19 percent from a year ago.
The No. 2 cloud provider reported Azure sales were up 50 percent year over year as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to force organizations into digital transformation mode.
“We are building Azure to address organizations‘ needs in a multi-cloud, multi-edge world,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a Tuesday call with analysts.
Microsoft’s commercial cloud which includes Office 365 Commercial, Azure, LinkedIn’s commercial business, Dynamics 365 and other commercial cloud properties generated US$17.7 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 33 percent year over year.
Working for a company that shares my passions for people, business and customers in order to deliver the best digital transformation solutions was critical for me in selecting my new home, she said. I can t wait to get started on May 4 and I look forward to reconnecting with some familiar faces and making lots of new connections too. Hunter spent over 20 years at Columbus, including more than a year in her last role at the company.
European lead of Accenture s Microsoft Business Group, Richard H. Holsman said Hunter will help customers to transform using Microsoft s Digital Transformation Platform. I am excited to welcome Mary Hunter to the Accenture family. She will be the new Business Applications lead for Europe in the Accenture Microsoft Business Group, he said on
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who’s been absorbed in the technology giant’s “partner-first” culture for nearly 30 years, spends a lot of time contemplating how solution providers are impacted by every decision the company makes.
“One of the things that I want to design in our core is whether it’s the move from license to consumption or license to subscriptions what is the partner opportunity,” Nadella said in an exclusive interview with CRN. “We want to [know] from day one in any change we make whether it’s a program change or business model change what does it mean for partners?”