automation

May 9, 2024   |   India Rodgers

Scaling contract reviews at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure AI Services

At Microsoft, our Finance team is leveraging technology to simplify workstream prioritization and automate qualitative assessments. The Revenue team within our Finance division is composed of accounting professionals with product, industry, and region-specific expertise. These professionals review and document accounting conclusions on the company’s major contracts with its customers, an activity that involves coordination across...

Mar 11, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Examining Microsoft's SAP transactions with Microsoft Azure Anomaly Detector

As part of our continuing digital transformation journey, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is constantly looking for ways to improve our business processes and detect issues and anomalies before they become serious problems. Sometimes these failures happen sporadically within the application framework and often go undetected. Even if a user detects an anomaly,...

Oct 19, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Getting the most out of generative AI at Microsoft with good governance

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Since generative AI exploded onto the scene, it’s been unleashing our employees’ creativity,...

Oct 14, 2020   |   Rob Boone

Solving automation challenge at Microsoft with citizen development, Microsoft Power Platform

It’s easy to assume that a project designed to automate an old, manual process—one which saved Microsoft 4,000 emails and 500 hours of meetings a year and came in both on-time and under budget—was led by a seasoned software engineer. It wasn’t. It was led by a citizen developer. In 2019, Microsoft employees submitted hundreds...

Mar 30, 2020   |   Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft used Power Automate to create its new centralized banking portal

Vinni Dang doesn’t consider herself a software developer, but she is certainly a problem solver. When Dang recognized the manual process used by the Microsoft employees who access 1,300 company bank accounts in 191 countries, she wanted to streamline this largely manual process. Not an engineer, she looked around for a non-technical solution and discovered...