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Microsoft announced new features for Microsoft Viva Microsoft announced new features for Microsoft Viva alongside the launch of the latest Work Trend Index Special Report focused on employee engagement. The newly announced Copilot feature, which was introduced in Microsoft 365 to help individuals drive efficiency and productivity, will now extend to Microsoft Viva to help business leaders in the region build more engaged, collaborative workforces. In Viva Goals, Copilot can provide recommended goals from a planning or strategy document, while Copilot in Viva Engage can help leaders draft employee communications. In Viva Topics,
Ahmad El Dandachi, Enterprise Commercial Lead for Microsoft UAE. Copilot will help users can get up to speed faster on a specific topic by generating a summary and offering answers based on multiple documents related to the topic. Microsoft is also bringing Glint into Viva to provide a survey tool for organizations to measure and improve engagement by seeking and acting on employee feedback. The new Viva Glint will help leaders summarize thousands of employee survey comments and provide leaders a fresh way to explore feedback by asking
Invictus Investment Company announced financial results Invictus Investment Company Plc announced financial results for its fiscal year 2023 first quarter ending on March 31, 2023. The Company posted quarterly revenue of AED2.3 billion, up 31% year over year, and quarterly earnings in Africa region reached AED1.7 billion and in the Middle East region reached AED489 million with a growth of 48.5%. The company delivered another quarter of resilient earnings fuelled by growing trade volumes, disciplined investment, and continued expansion in emerging markets. They are pleased to report strong growth in the first quarter despite the challenging
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macroeconomic environment and to have their commodity trading reach an all-time high. They continue to invest for the long term and lead with values, including making major progress toward diversifying business and markets to achieve strong growth and make a positive impact on the world around us. Since last year, their product portfolio has grown to include soybean, maize, barley, and sunflower oil. They
questions in natural language. Microsoft will also integrate Viva Glint and Viva Insights to provide leaders the ability to correlate aggregated employee engagement data with behavioural data, enabling them to uncover new insights about what may be driving engagement up or down within their teams. In keeping with its mission of empowering organizations across the region do more with less, Microsoft has also released the Work Trend Index Special Report, which demonstrates why employee engagement matters to the bottom line and how next-generation AI can help. The report analysed surveys of more than three million employees at over 200 companies across industries and looked at the combined stock price movement of these companies throughout 2022, revealing several key findings.
also expanded into new markets, predominantly in Africa including Algeria, Mozambique, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco, and in Turkey among other geographies. To continue to build on the success of their financial performance in 2022, they have developed a comprehensive plan to continue diversifying in 2023. Their team is committed to identifying emerging opportunities and leveraging expertise to capitalize on them into developing a fully integrated agro-food enterprise. As they move forward into 2023, they remain focused on identifying both organic and inorganic growth opportunities, on enhancing collaboration with key customer relationships, and on correctly resourcing teams internally to deliver sustainable growth for the benefit of all stakeholders.
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