"We moved 21 SaaS apps into production in nine months. Azure and Avanade were essential in this."
“With Microsoft 365, we’re creating a digital community where we do more than collaborate on documents. We talk about the challenges for our customers and for our roles and how we can make things better, which is helping us to change the culture.”
"We gained an easy-to-use database that can accommodate all of our data and run new analytical queries quickly. It’s also easy to modify and has low total cost of ownership. And the database runs reliably—almost on its own. SQL Server is all we need."
“We have deep coding experience and intelligence and wanted to find a way to bring that expertise to bear on our workload in an automated fashion.”
"We are looking to convert the knowledge our people have in their heads into a digital format and apply machine learning tools that can look at the data, optimize it, and adjust configurations to optimize production."
"What sets our company apart is our deep knowledge of the machining process and our ability to translate that knowledge into the algorithms used to analyze the data."
"The transition to Microsoft Azure is about moving from a model based on capital expenditure to a system based on operational expenditure. That’s what a lot of the industry is doing: moving from a ‘we own’ to a ‘we subscribe’ model."
"We looked at multiple hosting vendors when we undertook the tender process. The costs were pretty much aligned across all the entities, but we found the most functionality with Azure."
“The grapes come regardless, and we have to be ready for that. If our systems aren’t ready, if things aren’t working, we’re not going to be as efficient, we’re not going to get as much fruit out there, our revenues are going to be reduced.”
“We come from a can-do type of agricultural mentality. Although, with more customers and more complex contracts to fulfill, We’re realizing that IT from field to the back office is an integral part of managing our business efficiently.”
“The business is not going to stop because we are doing a migration.”
"With Microsoft Services, they just get it. And for them to come in, in that short of amount of time and really get what our goals are, it’s pretty impressive."
"If you want to change the lighting to LEDs, you can see the impact on electricity by quickly swapping Visio shapes which has relevant parameters in Shape Data."
"These data-enhanced plans drawn in Visio raise awareness of energy usage that general reports of power consumption cannot match."
"Resolto’s use of Azure to support Prognos appealed to us for two reasons. First, it provided a secure and reliable way to move massive amounts of data between us and Resolto, and, second, it eliminated the need to invest in hardware or the personnel to maintain it."