SAP

May 22, 2024   |   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 employees moved country to country within the company, behind the scenes our HR operations teams...

Mar 27, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Simplifying external staff management by extending SAP SuccessFactors on SAP Business Technology Platform

Our core system for managing our external workforce was showing its age in an increasingly demanding modern workplace environment—we needed to simplify our external staff management. Here at Microsoft, our large and diverse external, non-FTE workforce plays a vital role in our success. For us, external staff includes contractors, consultants, freelancers, and business guests who...

Mar 11, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Examining Microsoft's SAP transactions with Microsoft Azure Anomaly Detector

As part of our continuing digital transformation journey, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is constantly looking for ways to improve our business processes and detect issues and anomalies before they become serious problems. Sometimes these failures happen sporadically within the application framework and often go undetected. Even if a user detects an anomaly,...

Feb 22, 2024   |   Christian Dobler

Revolutionizing SAP and ADP connectivity with Microsoft Azure VWAN and VPN

Connecting line-of-business solutions into the Microsoft Azure networking environment is a critical part of enabling an efficient hybrid network environment and an important step in transforming enterprise networking using Azure. We’ve recently helped SAP, one of our key business partners, replace an outdated VPN connectivity solution with a highly secure, cost-efficient connection into Azure for...

Jan 25, 2024   |   Bonnie Darves

Protecting Microsoft’s SAP workload with Microsoft Sentinel

For any large enterprise like Microsoft, monitoring threats to infrastructure and applications developing and maintaining an always-on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution like Microsoft Sentinel that’s equipped to ward off threats isn’t only a weighty task but also a truly challenging undertaking. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and data breaches—originating from outside...

Jan 16, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Optimizing Microsoft’s SAP environment with Microsoft Azure

At Microsoft, we use SAP enterprise resource management software to run our mission-critical business functions like finance and human resources. In an on-premises model, physical computing resources are costly and may go unused. But by moving our SAP systems to Microsoft Azure, we avoid maintaining unused resources—we scale our systems up and down for current...

Jan 8, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Hello Azure: Unpacking how Microsoft moved its SAP workload to the cloud

[Editor’s note: This story on how Microsoft moved its SAP workload to the cloud has been updated with new details and updated terminology. A new SAP on Microsoft Azure video has been added below. This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it...

Oct 11, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Transforming how Microsoft connects with its 58,000 suppliers

Anyone procuring goods or services for Microsoft needs to do their homework. Not only must you make sure the supplier can provide what you need at a reasonable price, you must also make sure they meet certain standards and security compliance and obtain their contact information. Tracking down all that information is where supplier information...

Sep 19, 2023   |   Cody Bay

Transforming Microsoft’s corporate expense tools with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365

When it comes to employee expenses, Microsoft has quite a collection of corporate expense tools in its tool belt. Depending on your role, you might need different tools, all of which accomplish the same basic goal—reporting expenses and getting reimbursed—in job-specific ways. That may sound pretty handy, but all those tools can also be a...

May 15, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Monitoring Microsoft’s SAP Workload with Microsoft Azure

At Microsoft, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is using Microsoft Azure telemetry tools to get key insights on our business processes that flow through our SAP instance, one of the largest in the world. Our new platform provides our leadership with a comprehensive view of our business-process health and allows our engineering teams to...

Feb 11, 2021   |   Douglas Gantenbein

How auto-scaling SAP on Microsoft Azure is benefitting Microsoft

Microsoft has implemented auto-scaling SAP on Microsoft Azure to help its SAP workloads run more efficiently. Why? Like many enterprises, Microsoft runs on SAP. It uses the software to run everything from tracking servers in its supply chain to making sure the company’s 140,000 employees are paid on time. It has one of the largest...