Microsoft Azure
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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…
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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…
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Modernizing our Network Access Control Infrastructure with Azure
“How do I get on the Wi-Fi?” It’s often one of the first questions visitors ask when arriving at a new location, and here at Microsoft, it happens every day. Our guest Wi-Fi network is typically one of the first…
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Microsoft enables greater innovation by moving its ServiceNow instances to Azure
Internally here at Microsoft, our strategic partnership with ServiceNow is designed to enhance the integration and optimization of our two companies’ products, platforms, and cloud capabilities. Our decision to move the ServiceNow platform to Azure has proven to be a…
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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…
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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…
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Dining transformation at Microsoft eases the transition as employees return to work
A profound dining transformation is happening at Microsoft as the company’s employees return to an office that’s evolved into a hybrid workplace. The pandemic has changed the way we work—and with it, the way we eat. Consumer expectations are evolving…
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Streamlining engineering at Microsoft with Azure DevOps
Microsoft runs on Microsoft technology. We are the proving ground for our products and when we say that software is enterprise-ready this means that we have already built it for and run it at scale in our own enterprise. We…
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Enabling effortless cloud infrastructure management with MyWorkspace and Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Digital (MSD) is the organization that powers, protects, and transforms Microsoft. As part of its mission, MSD builds and manages the cloud network infrastructure that supports Microsoft products and services. MyWorkspace is a browser-based cloud-provisioning tool created by MSD…
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Transforming how Microsoft uses Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team manages one of the largest Microsoft Azure enterprise environments. Migrating our virtual machine resources into Microsoft Azure necessitated significant connectivity between our on-premises networks and Azure. We have many Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute circuits…
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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…
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Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset
DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…