Spain One Of The Latest Countries To Welcome Microsoft Technology
Spain, home of beautiful beaches and world-class wine
, will soon expand its technology footprint. Thanks to U.S. software giant Microsoft, Spain will welcome two new "Centres for Innovation" in this new decade.Microsoft currently runs technology centres in over 20 locations worldwide. Microsoft technology Centers for Innovation have been launched in an effort to provide technological solutions and market expertise.
The company has centres devoted to specific areas such as law enforcement, financial services, real-estate, business and other industry sectors. Microsoft refers to these centres as "collaborative environments" where experts come together with business managers to create and implement software systems.
Microsoft has already established two such centres in Spain. One is located in central Manresa, Catalonia in Spain's northeast corner. This particular centre is dedicated to innovation in productivity.
The second centre is located in Palma de Mallorca on the Balearic island of Majorca. This centre's focus is on tourism industry technology solutions. It's an important one to the country, since tourism makes up a significant portion of Spain's Gross Domestic Product.
Maria Garana, the company's president for Spain, referred to this centre as "a worldwide reference for technological applications in the tourism sector." Garana notes that this particular location provides tourism technological solutions for clients all over the world, not just in Spain. This seems fitting, considering that the country itself is a world leader in tourism promotion and generation.
The software giant first made its announcement in mid 2009. Initially, it didn't hint as to preferred locations for the new centres. Microsoft did note, though, that one would be a "Cloud Computing" (virtual pay-as-you-go services) centre while the other would focus on health care.
The Centre for Health Innovation would be the company's first in the world. Microsoft has always provided health care software technologies. However, the proposed new centre will be the first which will be devoted solely to health care software solutions.
Experts in both industry sectors have suggested possible locations for these centres to be built. Places like Alicante, Benidorm and Elche have been proposed. However, Microsoft announced early this year that the new Centre for Health Innovation would be established in the Valencia Community, though no exact location was revealed. Speculation leans
toward the City of Valencia itself as the prime location, although the Community of Valencia has three separate provinces.
No matter where the Centre for Health Innovation eventually ends up, it promises to be a busy one. The Centre will likely be used by clients from all over the world.
Doctors, universities, hospitals and other health care service providers within Spain are excited to anticipate this new resource developing in their own backyard. They will, undoubtedly, be some of the Centre's most enthusiastic users.
Meanwhile, the newest Centre for Cloud Computing will join the ranks of a number of other such centres worldwide. The company is concurrently developing another Centre for Cloud Computing in Taiwan.
These centres will focus on pay-as-you-go cloud computing services, which can translate into substantial savings over traditional cloud computing models. No word has been issued so far on where the Centre for Cloud Computing will be established in Spain.
It may take a few years to see what the impact of these two new Microsoft centres will have on Spain's economy. Officials from many of Spain's industry sectors are excited, though, at what possibilities may open up once these to centres are fully established.
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