October 2019

Oct 17, 2019   |   Inside Track – retired stories

Using AI and chatbots to simplify finance tools at Microsoft

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Microsoft has designed an AI driven modern Chatbot for our finance department’s Procure-to-Pay service. At Microsoft, many of our core business processes (such as procurement and payment) were...

Oct 16, 2019   |   Lukas Velush

How Microsoft used SQL Azure and Azure Service Fabric to rebuild a key internal app

When Raja Narayan took over supporting the Payee Management Application that Microsoft Finance uses to onboard new suppliers and partners, the experience was broken. “Our application’s infrastructure was on-premises,” Narayan says. “It was a big, old-school architecture monolith and, although we had database-based logging in place, there was no alerting setup at any level. Bugs...

Oct 9, 2019   |   Inside Track – retired stories

Deployment rings make sequencing Windows updates fast and simple

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Microsoft Digital shares its strategy for managing deployment rings inside the company. Like many businesses transitioning to the cloud, Microsoft’s shift to Windows as a service meant that...

Oct 2, 2019   |   Inside Track – retired stories

Shepherding how Microsoft employees use Microsoft Azure

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Microsoft employees are inventive when it comes to exploring what they can do with Microsoft Azure. The last thing Vazjier Rosario wants to do is stifle that creativity....