"Azure SQL Database with elastic pool is a very convenient way to manage sharded or partitioned databases. We have a lot of experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and other databases, and they can be hard to manage in a sharded way. But with elastic pool, it’s very simple to share databases across a resource set."
“Yes, this tool is helping us address COVID, but it goes beyond that. The Microsoft platform has been a catalyst for an avalanche of change in this organization. This goes to the heart of what the UN offers. Technology helps us better meet our larger responsibilities towards peace and stability.”
“But our ambitions for the region don’t stop there. We’re launching the UAE’s first AI platform to digitize all our operations and services and deliver the highest levels of innovation and engagement at Bee’ah’s office of the future, all utilizing the cloud.”
“We appreciated that Azelis was willing to trust us and explore a technology that was still in private preview, and its commitment paid off.”
"The collaboration with Microsoft really helped us to accelerate our development. That continues to be a part of our winning formula."
“We may be a small startup but our industry partner, Schindler, has been in the building industry for 150 years and our technology partner, Microsoft, is a common, trusted name among our customers. Backed by these two, we can guarantee that we can take our solution anywhere in the world to solve real problems."
"Using Text Analytics helps us achieve our goal of understanding recipients’ interest at scale. We help people make informed decisions and stay in touch with their candidates, which is vital to democracy."
"Azure Stack HCI and Windows Admin Center make our lives easier. We consider it something that could even change the direction of how we do things not just today, but also in five to ten years."
"Working with Microsoft has been really powerful. Getting access to features that provide cost management and being able to interact directly with the Microsoft team has made a big difference to our ability to get to the right cost place."
"I see cloud economics as our route of opportunity. We spend a lot of money in the cloud, so it’s one of those things that has a huge impact. Our cloud cost optimization has already saved us 25 to 40 percent."
"The firefighters migrated to Microsoft Teams for many reasons, partly out of curiosity and partly out of necessity. Now the department can connect at the speed we all needed."
"It used to take our crime analysts about a week to create the report and the presentation for our meetings. Using Power BI, they’ve reduced that down to about 30 minutes. And, instead of having to wait 45 days to look at the previous month’s data, we can access it in nearly real time."
"Now we can scale up much more easily with Microsoft Azure. We’ve consolidated our database infrastructure to SQL Managed Instance. We’ve moved from higher fixed costs to much smaller incremental costs. It gives us a lot of flexibility as an organization."
“You can imagine the early morning digital onslaught we experience, when something like 50,000 or 60,000 students suddenly sign in to the environment for attendance between seven or seven-thirty in the morning."
“We predominantly use the Microsoft stack, covering everything from authentication on Microsoft Azure AD to running our ERP systems. We also use Microsoft Dynamics 365. Moving our IP suite of products to Azure has opened many doors for us when it comes to scalability, cost savings, and agility. Having everything in one place and within one cloud environment also helps us with our data journey and analytics. We use Power BI to create dashboards based on the data we possess, across both our school management system and learning management system. These dashboards are easily accessible and intended for everyone, be it our CEO or our account officers. We get easy, self-service access to decision-ready information.”