Data and AI

August 9, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Embracing emerging technology at Microsoft with new AI certifications

As an organization, we immediately saw that advanced AI was going to create opportunities for our employees to increase their reach and impact. We knew we needed to move quickly to help them get ready for the moment. Our response?…
February 21, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Transforming Microsoft’s enterprise IT infrastructure with AI

AI is changing everything at Microsoft, including our approach to core IT. We in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, are using the advent of generative AI to reexamine and transform our entire IT infrastructure. “We’ve crossed an important threshold…
February 5, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot internally at Microsoft

We have deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot to nearly all our employees and vendors at Microsoft. As Customer Zero, we are the first enterprise to do so at scale. As of this week, nearly everyone at the company has it. We’re…
January 26, 2024

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Lukas Velush

How automation is transforming revenue processing at Microsoft

The Microsoft partner and customer network brings in more than $100 billion in revenue each year, most of the company’s earnings. Keeping tabs on the millions of annual transactions is no small task—just ask Shashi Lanka Venkata and Mark Anderson,…
January 8, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Protecting against oversharing Power BI reports with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information…
November 10, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Revolutionizing the rollout: Using product adoption data to streamline deployments

How do you turn data into knowledge? Once you have it, how to you turn that knowledge into action? Adopting a new product across an organization as large as Microsoft is an enormous task, and we’re always expanding our knowledge…
September 19, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Transforming data governance at Microsoft with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric

Data is an invaluable asset for all businesses. Over recent years, the exponential growth of data collection and ingestion has forced most organizations to rethink their strategies for managing data. Increasing compliance requirements and ever-changing technology prevent anyone from simply…
July 13, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure

Companies all over the world have launched their cloud adoption journey. While some are just starting, others are further along the path and are now researching the best options for moving their largest, most complex workflows to the cloud. It…
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…
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…

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