December 2020 - Inside Track Blog

Dec 28, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Best of Inside Track: How Microsoft Azure powered Microsoft internally in 2020

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Microsoft’s shift to working remotely in 2020 opened the door for the company to double down on using Microsoft Azure to drive its internal transformation. Well past moving...

Dec 21, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Best of Inside Track: How Microsoft employees turned to the Microsoft Power Platform in 2020

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Sometimes it’s best to solve problems yourself, especially in 2020. Citizen development became a big theme at large companies in 2020, including internally at Microsoft, where employees of...

Dec 18, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Meet the Microsoft team bringing human connection back to retail sales

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. The conversation was so human. Chelsea Cox, a Microsoft retail store associate, remembers chatting with a couple looking for a laptop that would last through grad school. She...

Dec 16, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Best of Inside Track: How Microsoft embraced working remotely internally in 2020

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. When it became clear that employees would need to shift to working from home because of COVID-19, Microsoft pivoted quickly, taking steps to make sure the transition would...

Dec 10, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Modernizing Microsoft consulting services with move to SAP on Microsoft Azure

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Reginald Albert worked as a field seller at Microsoft for over 20 years, where he had a front row seat to see how teams, customers, and partners use...

Dec 8, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Microsoft adopts proactive method for preventing and mitigating failures

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. System crashes and other failures have long been a fact of life in the IT world. Microsoft has always worked hard to ensure that its customers have reliable...

Dec 4, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

Productizing machine learning models across Microsoft with Data Product DevOps

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. Setting up and managing data products without an engineer didn’t seem possible. But Aishwarya Dinde, a software engineer with Microsoft’s Enterprise 360 Data Intelligence team, discovered otherwise as...

Dec 1, 2020 | Inside Track – retired stories

DevOps development model makes Microsoft more nimble, productive

This content has been archived, and while it was correct at time of publication, it may no longer be accurate or reflect the current situation at Microsoft. The cloud has democratized computing. Today, companies big and small have equal access to powerful computing and data storage. The same goes for Microsoft, where different business groups...