Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, President of Digital Transformation Office Ali Taha Koç, Microsoft EMEA President Ralph Haupter, and Microsoft Türkiye General Manager Levent Özbilgin attended Microsoft R&D Center opening ceremony.
Microsoft purchased Citus Data company, which was founded in Turkey and opened to the world. After this acquisition, the Citus Data family expanded with engineers graduated from Turkey’s leading universities. These engineers will take responsibility for Microsoft’s innovative work, especially in the data field. In the R&D center, studies will be carried out to provide high-performance PostgreSQL service and will aim to expand its work around the world – at least 100 countries – via a new platform it is working on called Azure.