Morgan Stanley & Microsoft
Morgan Stanley (the financial firm, ticker MS) is a major enterprise customer of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, running investment banking workflows, wealth management platforms, and data analytics on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The two organizations are distinct (the ticker similarity causes frequent confusion).
Why it matters: Morgan Stanley's 2020 acquisition of E*Trade and 2021 acquisition of Eaton Vance drove massive data integration needs that Azure and Microsoft's Fabric data platform help address. Microsoft 365 is Morgan Stanley's productivity suite of record for its 80,000+ global employees.