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November 19, 2024

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Alex Fleck

Boosting HR and IT services at Microsoft with our new Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Our employees at Microsoft are already using Microsoft 365 Copilot to find answers, work faster, communicate more effectively, and boost their creativity. Copilot has become a true personal AI assistant. To make this tool even more valuable to our employees…
October 17, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Unpacking Microsoft’s speedy upgrade to Windows 11

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Like our…
September 5, 2024

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Segun Akinyemi

Simplifying nonprofit volunteering at Microsoft with Power Automate

Power Automate, part of the suite of tools offered by Microsoft Power Platform, is a low-code, cloud-based automation service powered by AI. In the company’s own words, Power Automate enables customers to streamline processes across their organization to save time…
September 3, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Modernizing enterprise integration services at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure

Our Platform Engineering team in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) wanted to improve the capabilities, performance, and resiliency of our on-premises integration platform. To do this, the team used Microsoft Azure Integration Services to build a cloud-based integration platform as…
July 19, 2024

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Douglas Gantenbein

Deploying Kanban at Microsoft leads to engineering excellence

Microsoft has taken a page from the auto industry to use a process called Kanban (pronounced “con-bon”), a Japanese word meaning “signboard” or “billboard.” It was developed by a Toyota engineer to improve manufacturing efficiency. Microsoft is using Kanban to…
May 28, 2024

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Inside Track staff

How Microsoft modernized its purchase order system with Azure microservices

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] MyOrder, an…
May 24, 2024

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Alex Fleck

Enabling advanced HR analytics and AI with Microsoft Azure Data Lake

We’re on a mission to transform our human resources systems here at Microsoft. To make it happen, we’re upgrading the way we use analytics and AI. Our digital transformation has been a twofold journey. First, we upgraded our core processes,…
May 22, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Upgrading Microsoft’s core Human Resources system with SAP SuccessFactors

Microsoft’s core Human Resources system was aging and needed to be replaced. Thanks to its limitations, when a company employee transferred to a new job in a different country or region, it could seem like they were starting over. “When…
May 17, 2024

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Douglas Gantenbein

Microsoft’s fresh approach to accessibility powered by inclusive design

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Adopting rigorous…
April 26, 2024

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Stacy Hernandez

Turning to Microsoft Azure to put software engineers in high school classrooms

Software engineers at Microsoft and other companies love that they get to teach their craft in high schools across the United States and in parts of Canada. The grassroots program—which is now more than 10 years old—has been so successful…
April 22, 2024

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Josh Krenz

How Microsoft is delivering smart building experiences with CI/CD for Azure Digital Twins

Microsoft empowers employees and guests with user experience scenarios, like pathfinding and hotdesking, to make life easier. To quickly facilitate impactful smart building features at scale, Microsoft Digital’s engineers rely on a structured approach that combines templates and pipelines for…
April 15, 2024

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Inside Track staff

DevOps is sending engineering practices up in smoke

When it comes to modernizing how software engineers write their code, sometimes you just have to light things on fire. Just ask James Gagnon. He’ll tell you that good engineering teams at Microsoft and in Microsoft Digital are driving towards…

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