(opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a collaboration service that comes with Office 365. The result shows that, in the first six months of use, SAS has helped solve 76 percent of critical incidents. The use of the technologies behind SAS could expand to other Office 365 services in the future.<\/p>\nZhang is looking to expand her team as opportunities for its input into Microsoft products and services increase. One of the strengths of her group is its impressive diversity of skills and specialties, which include machine learning, information visualization, and system building. That range, she says, makes it possible for the team not only to conduct interdisciplinary research, but also take a great research concept and translate it into practical, deployable technologies, often in collaboration with product teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft is a great place for us to work on software analytics, because it\u2019s the largest software company in the world, and you can imagine the wealth of data that Microsoft has,\u201d Zhang says. \u201cWe are fortunate in the sense that we realized the importance of data in the software domain very early on. We have already done some very good work in this area, and we\u2019d like to continue the momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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