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September 5, 2024

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Segun Akinyemi

Simplifying nonprofit volunteering at Microsoft with Power Automate

Power Automate, part of the suite of tools offered by Microsoft Power Platform, is a low-code, cloud-based automation service powered by AI. In the company’s own words, Power Automate enables customers to streamline processes across their organization to save time…
May 28, 2024

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Inside Track staff

How Microsoft modernized its purchase order system with Azure microservices

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] MyOrder, an…
May 24, 2024

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Alex Fleck

Enabling advanced HR analytics and AI with Microsoft Azure Data Lake

We’re on a mission to transform our human resources systems here at Microsoft. To make it happen, we’re upgrading the way we use analytics and AI. Our digital transformation has been a twofold journey. First, we upgraded our core processes,…
May 22, 2024

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Lukas Velush

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…
May 17, 2024

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Douglas Gantenbein

Microsoft’s fresh approach to accessibility powered by inclusive design

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Adopting rigorous…
April 26, 2024

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Stacy Hernandez

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…
April 22, 2024

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Josh Krenz

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…
April 15, 2024

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Inside Track staff

DevOps is sending engineering practices up in smoke

When it comes to modernizing how software engineers write their code, sometimes you just have to light things on fire. Just ask James Gagnon. He’ll tell you that good engineering teams at Microsoft and in Microsoft Digital are driving towards…
March 27, 2024

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Lukas Velush

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…
March 22, 2024

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Dodd Willingham

Getting to ‘search completeness’ internally at Microsoft

Microsoft is a big company with thousands of teams working in different ways based on the work they do. Despite that complexity, when our employees go looking for something, they expect an internal search portal that will find exactly what…
March 18, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Transforming modern engineering at Microsoft

Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is implementing a modern engineering vision that creates a culture, tools, and practices focused on developing high-quality, secure, and feature-rich services to enable digital transformation across the company. Our Modern Engineering initiative has…
March 13, 2024

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Inside Track staff

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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