Competence Center: Microsoft

The Microsoft competence center is the central platform when it comes to Microsoft and its products for HMS. We are the contact for our inside management and sales teams, for any questions regarding current trends in the programming scene. Additionally, we help HMS employees to keep their knowledge in relevant Microsoft technologies up to date. Microsoft has been HMS’s most important strategic technology and business partner for many years and therefore requires close support via the competence field.

The main focus in the competence center is the .net framework, and its associated development tools. Other exciting fields are all products related to the data platform, both on-premise and in the cloud, data analysis tools, as well as the relevant security tools. Of course, Azure – Microsoft’s cloud platform – plays an omnipresent role in our competence center.

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Strategic Knowledge Goals

  • Acquire, keep up and share knowledge in relevant Microsoft technologies in the company.
  • Identify relevant technologies and stay on top of Microsoft developments. Currently, this includes products related to data platform, data analytics and data evaluation tools, not to forget software development tools. Security products and security platforms are also becoming increasingly important.
  • Keep partnership requirements in focus and monitor HMS status in the Microsoft world.
  • Networking inside of Microsoft relevant communities.

Multiple Employees Talk About the Competence Center

Pascal Geschwill
Senior Software Engineer

Jan Greulich
Project Manager

What makes the competence center special for you?
Pascal: For me, the competence center is above all a super-useful forum for exchanging ideas with colleagues. Especially when there is a healthy mix of experienced and newer colleagues, the discussions produce the most valuable results. Everyone benefits from this in equal measure!
Jan: Evaluating the latest Azure technologies and sharing with colleagues how they can best be used in our customers’ projects.

Why do you participate in the competence center?
Pascal: I work in the Microsoft competence center because I regularly have to deal with Microsoft tools and frameworks in my projects. If I have a question or have learned something new, I can bring it to our knowledge circles and be sure that a valuable discussion will result.
Jan: The partnership with Microsoft and the corresponding cloud projects are a core area of HMS. Therefore, it is important to me that all colleagues stay up to date with the ever-changing Azure technologies, and that we actively discuss the technologies together.

Why are Microsoft technologies attractive to you?
Pascal: Microsoft technologies are attractive because they always have a high-quality standard and can be integrated with each other in many ways. In addition, the range of tools with a wide variety of application purposes is truly remarkable.
Jan: The combination of long-tested technologies, such as SQL Server, combined with the simplicity in Azure makes for effective work. But even with new technologies, you can count on excellent documentation and availability.

Examples for Knowledge Circles

The knowledge circle turned theory into practice and gave its participants the task of maintaining a Kubernetes cluster themselves and later transferring what they learned to Azure Kubernetes services.

For the first time, Microsoft’s developer IDE is 64bit! But what does that mean? What advantages does it bring? What’s new with .net 6? In this knowledge circle all questions around the renewals of Microsoft were answered.

What exactly does MAUI bring to the table? Where could the use cases be? How can one get started? Together, the participants of the competence center explored new opportunities.

This knowledge circle covered exam topics and their use cases from the AZ-500 exam.

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