"We saw three major advantages in moving to the Azure cloud: enhancing collaboration, making data accessible from anywhere on any device, and providing security for our customer’s data."
“The company headquarters have large screens with dashboards for everyone to see. We exchange print screens pulled from Power BI directly in chats. Every morning’s briefing starts by discussing the dashboards’ information."
"This platform will enable us to transform from experience-based and intuitive decision-making, to data-based decision-making."
"The barriers of entry in this business are very high for new competitors, favoring a slower pace of innovation from a handful of established providers. The Microsoft Cloud enabled us to break that apart and disrupt a market that typically requires massive upfront investments and time."
"We rely on the Microsoft Azure platform because it brings us the advantages of the cloud, such as the absorption of load peaks, and offers an excellent adoption of Open Source technologies."
"We saw the feedback on social media, verified it, and updated the website in Azure all within about 10 hours. Over the 14 days of the Show, we made six releases of our site without taking it offline, which is unheard of."
"We’re seeing better efficiency and productivity for IT as well as for the business as a whole."
"The work of Microsoft teams marked a turning point in the world of open source solutions. So much so that the Azure offering is mature today and answers all the needs identified by its clients: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS."
"In the first year, our new Azure-powered identity management solution saved us over $40,000 in upfront expenses and licensing compared to a competing third-party product we considered. We also saved $360 a month by building our portal using CKAN on Azure versus a competing hosting service."
“Skype for Business Online in particular has improved productivity. By using instant messaging and presence, employees are definitely creating efficiencies within their specific departments, and getting a quick answer at our desks saves us time, and helps us respond faster to citizen questions and needs.”
"The solutions that Microsoft provides are changing our company. We will be able to react faster to our customers’ needs."
“We take the data, use Microsoft Azure to send it to the cloud, and then crunch the numbers. Now, we can see how an installation is performing. We can create a huge amount of savings with solutions like these.”
“We are an international market leader in the horticultural industry and a leading player in building controls. If you look at the world of high-tech greenhouses, many, many growers want to change the way they cultivate today.”
"This is something that an individual, family, or community can do to put a mark on climate change. They can do something at a very local level to speed the adoption of renewable energy."
“We started growing fast, but once we started growing, we were totally out of control.”