Walgreens moves corporate apps to the cloud

Walgreens Boots Alliance has moved 122 customized apps used for planning and corporate management to the cloud. The move, part of the drugstore giant's new enterprise resource-planning system, will consolidate apps on Microsoft's Azure cloud. “That means better performance and faster speeds in our management of inventory, many completion of transactions, submission of invoices to accounts payable and more,” said Francesco Tinto, global chief information officer, Walgreens.