Microsoft’s focus on cloud, partnerships paying off

FILE PHOTO: An advertisement is played on a set of large screens at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

SAN FRANCISCO: In the elevator industry, breakdowns are bad for business.

So when Thyssenkrupp North America needed help predicting when to service its lifts, it turned to Microsoft Corp, a partnership that illustrates how Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, has leveraged the cloud to grow its own business.