All posts by Seth Malcolm

Jun 25, 2019

Key SOX control at Microsoft is transformed through AI

Royalty statements quality review can be a royal pain. Like many companies, Microsoft pays royalties for games, videos, content, software, and other creative work it uses in its products and services. The company pays a lot in royalties—nearly $5 billion a year. “The quality review and approval of payments has been a time-consuming manual process...

May 2, 2019

Microsoft internal SAP workload gets a telemetry boost with Azure

For the first time, Microsoft has end-to-end visibility into the millions of business processes that it runs through SAP every day. Microsoft is using a new suite of Microsoft Azure telemetry tools to gain insight into how to better manage expense reports, time away reporting, purchase order creation, and similar business processes that get routed...