Data and AI

Feb 21, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Transforming Microsoft’s enterprise IT infrastructure with AI

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives AI is changing everything at Microsoft, including our approach to core IT. We...

Feb 5, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 internally at Microsoft

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives We have deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 to nearly all our employees and...

Jan 26, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

How automation is transforming revenue processing at Microsoft

The Microsoft partner and customer network brings in more than $100 billion in revenue each year, most of the company’s earnings. Keeping tabs on the millions of annual transactions is no small task—just ask Shashi Lanka Venkata and Mark Anderson, two company employees who are leading a bid to automate what historically has been a...

Jan 8, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Protecting against oversharing Power BI reports with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information efficiently and effectively. But with great Power BI reports comes great responsibility, which includes keeping...

Nov 10, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Revolutionizing the rollout: Using product adoption data to streamline deployments

How do you turn data into knowledge? Once you have it, how to you turn that knowledge into action? Adopting a new product across an organization as large as Microsoft is an enormous task, and we’re always expanding our knowledge about how to roll out a new tool or platform more effectively. Product adoption data...

Nov 9, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Embracing emerging technology at Microsoft with new AI certifications

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives As an organization, we immediately saw that advanced AI was going to create...

Sep 19, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Transforming data governance at Microsoft with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric

Data is an invaluable asset for all businesses. Over recent years, the exponential growth of data collection and ingestion has forced most organizations to rethink their strategies for managing data. Increasing compliance requirements and ever-changing technology prevent anyone from simply leaving their enterprise data in its current state. We’re accelerating our digital transformation with an...

Jul 13, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure

Companies all over the world have launched their cloud adoption journey. While some are just starting, others are further along the path and are now researching the best options for moving their largest, most complex workflows to the cloud. It can take time for companies to address legacy tools and systems that have on-premises infrastructure...

Mar 3, 2020   |   Aleenah Ansari

Transforming sales at Microsoft with AI-infused recommendations and customer insights

Peter Schlegel’s job is to build trust with Microsoft customers, and he’s using AI to do it. “Specialists are solution sellers,” says Schlegel, a data and AI specialist for Microsoft Digital Sales. “We help customers solve problems with an eye toward helping them move down the path of digital transformation. To do this, we also...

Sep 16, 2019   |   Lukas Velush

Retooling how Microsoft sellers sell the company

Selling Microsoft hasn’t been easy. Just ask the 25,000 people who pitch the complex array of products and services that the company sells to customers across the globe. Those sellers used to wade through more than 30 homegrown applications to get their jobs done, often spending more time filling out forms and cross referencing tools...

Aug 13, 2019   |   Lukas Velush

Tackling environmental sustainability from the inside out at Microsoft

Microsoft operates 100 percent carbon neutral. It also levies an internal carbon tax on its own business units to help pay for climate change and environmental sustainability initiatives, including giving technology grants to environmental projects outside of Microsoft. Both are part of being a good steward of the environment, says Elizabeth Willmott, carbon program manager...