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SUMMARY:Big Data & Microsoft Office: How Office uses Big Data to understan
 d Usage\, Errors and Reliability - Shemyla Anwar\, Microsoft
DTSTART:20151104T130000Z
DTEND:20151104T140000Z
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CONTACT:Jan Samols
DESCRIPTION:Microsoft eliminated the need to spend countless hours in manu
 al software testing and uses customer insights and big data instead to imp
 rove the product. Cosmos is Microsoft’s Big Data repository built on top
  of Azure. All of Microsoft telemetry and insights data are uploaded and e
 xtracted from Cosmos. It is used to understand usage patterns to better de
 sign a feature. \n\nHow concepts of experimentation and A/B testing are us
 ed to expose different feature sets to different customer segments. Improv
 e reliability and availability of our features and applications - understa
 nding crashes and errors and collecting and analyzing data remotely.  \n\n
 The concept of 'dogfooding' is very big and widely used in Microsoft. Micr
 osoft takes pride in introducing the concept of dogfooding and widely reve
 red by other companies. It is now being adopted in other companies too. Wh
 at is dogfooding\, how do we do it\, the process\, bugs found\, fixed rate
 .  \n\nFew case studies and example of how Office used Big Data to improve
  the overall experience given to end user customers.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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