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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...

Sep 8, 2023   |   Serah Delaini

Revamped Microsoft business intelligence platform boosts data handling and builds trust

Imagine an important meeting where you spend most of your time discussing the accuracy of metrics and reports. Too often, that was the reality for many Microsoft teams before we launched Microsoft Sales Experience (MSX) Insights, a Microsoft business intelligence platform. Now MSX Insights provides a single source of truth to more than 40,000 users,...

Aug 4, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Citizen developers use Microsoft Power Apps to build an intelligent launch assistant

Traditional app-development efforts can take months to translate business requirements into a usable application or feature. For the business user, waiting can be the hardest part. You come up with an idea to improve efficiency or productivity at work—not only will it make your life easier, but you think it could transform the way your...

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...