Nadella’s Legacy: Microsoft Targets Authentication and Data Quality with Huge LinkedIn Play

Author(s): George Goodall

Few saw it coming. Microsoft’s plan to acquire LinkedIn is an enormous deal that will force IT leaders to reconsider the role of social in enterprise applications. Ultimately, Microsoft will leverage LinkedIn’s social graph to fix existing cross-enterprise authentication challenges and improve data quality. Nadella may have found his legacy.

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