{"id":6041,"date":"2020-12-28T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2023-07-27T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:12:13","slug":"best-of-showcase-how-microsoft-azure-powered-microsoft-internally-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/best-of-showcase-how-microsoft-azure-powered-microsoft-internally-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Inside Track: How Microsoft Azure powered Microsoft internally in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft\u2019s shift to working remotely in 2020 opened the door for the company to double down on using Microsoft Azure to drive its internal transformation.<\/p>\n
Well past moving its workloads to the cloud, internal teams at the company spent their time fine-tuning how they use Microsoft Azure in 2020. Led by Microsoft Digital, the Azure-fueled projects the company tackled internally ranged from overhauling internal auditing processes, helping the company safely and securely pull an underwater datacenter up from below the sea, to using a Zero Trust mindset to secure internal infrastructure, applications, and services that the company has moved to Azure.<\/p>\n
Retooling internal audits<\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s financial audits were labor intensive, too manual, and slow.<\/p>\n To fix that, the Microsoft Finance team partnered with the Microsoft Digital team to use Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to automate and streamline the process\u2014ending the need to manually manage thousands of unconnected Microsoft Excel files.<\/p>\n \u201cThe teamwork that we\u2019ve had with the Microsoft Digital team has been a true demonstration of One Microsoft and how we can break down barriers and really come together to solve a big problem,\u201d says Michael Williams, an audit program manager in Microsoft Finance.<\/p>\n