Azure

March 3, 2020

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Aleenah Ansari

Transforming sales at Microsoft with AI-infused recommendations and customer insights

Peter Schlegel’s job is to build trust with Microsoft customers, and he’s using AI to do it. “Specialists are solution sellers,” says Schlegel, a data and AI specialist for Microsoft Digital Sales. “We help customers solve problems with an eye…
February 27, 2020

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Lukas Velush

How ‘born in the cloud’ thinking is fueling Microsoft’s transformation

Microsoft wasn’t born in the cloud, but soon you won’t be able to tell. Now that it has finished “lifting and shifting” its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure, the company is rethinking everything. “We’re rearchitecting all of our applications…
January 7, 2020

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Rob Boone

How retooling invoice processing is fueling transformation inside Microsoft

Until recently, processing incoming invoices at Microsoft was a patchwork, largely manual process, owing to the 20-year-old architecture and business processes on which the invoicing system was built. The existing Microsoft Invoice platform allowed only manual invoice submission. External suppliers…
October 16, 2019

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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…
September 16, 2019

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Lukas Velush

Retooling how Microsoft sellers sell the company

Selling Microsoft hasn’t been easy. Just ask the 25,000 people who pitch the complex array of products and services that the company sells to customers across the globe. Those sellers used to wade through more than 30 homegrown applications to…
August 13, 2019

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Lukas Velush

Tackling environmental sustainability from the inside out at Microsoft

Microsoft operates 100 percent carbon neutral. It also levies an internal carbon tax on its own business units to help pay for climate change and environmental sustainability initiatives, including giving technology grants to environmental projects outside of Microsoft. Both are…
April 25, 2019

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Lukas Velush

How one Microsoft leader sparked an engineering team’s transformation

When Sahil Garg set out to overhaul how Microsoft delivers procurement and payment solutions to employees and external suppliers, he had to do one important thing first—he had to get the people onboard. He needed the software engineers to work…
February 19, 2019

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Lukas Velush

Microsoft Teams keeps employees connected during epic snow event

For Microsoft, the best part of the epic snowstorms that hammered its headquarters for nine straight days is that the collaboration technology that employees used to work from home was as seamless as if they were still in the office. While the 50,000 employees who live in Redmond, Washington were blocked in by roughly two feet of snow that fell from…

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