“Our customers provide the contents as they are motivated by the feeling of ‘being viewed by someone’ and ‘helping someone.’ If a failure occurs in the system, it will have a significant impact on the customers’ motivations. It has a risk of losing both the readers and providers of the contents. The ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of the contents are essential elements for scaling up the service, and therefore we must eliminate factors that threaten them to the extent possible. At present, the company has the policy of using Azure for its web services infrastructure. Behind this policy, there is a desire to continue to provide services stably.”
"Scalability is one of the big benefits we get from Azure. In the past, it might have taken us months to procure and configure servers and get them into production. Now, we can scale up on demand in Azure in a matter of minutes."
"One criterion for selecting Azure was that it realized our concepts of the new digital platform. Another criterion was compatibility with Microsoft 365, and because Azure was used in our overseas business locations to enable a reliable network and SSO with Azure Active Directory."
“One of the biggest things that the Microsoft technology gives us is the ability to move quickly into getting [Microsoft Teams] meetings set up and pulled together – for us to be able to say ‘ok, don’t worry, there is a way we can do this, let me explain that to you’ and just to hear the relief in their voice that the service is still available to them.”
“The municipalities we talked to wanted to modernize their infrastructure but weren’t sure where to start. What we're replacing is very dated software in some cases, and that's a vulnerability.”
“We wanted fast, on-demand provisioning of services and servers and better cost-effectiveness. Plus, we needed advanced security capabilities and data protection. All of these factors guided our decision to move to Azure and Microsoft 365.”
“However, the health crisis accelerated our journey and reinforced our cloud-first approach. Fifty percent of our workforce needed to work offsite immediately. Thanks to Azure and Microsoft 365, we could make that happen.”
"Azure interoperates well with legacy systems, with an emphasis on security that’s really nice. Azure is really leapfrogging the competition, one or two years ahead."
"We’ve managed to host on Microsoft Azure various technical and business services, which had many opportunities for on-premises improvement. Working in the cloud has brought us incredible benefits, way beyond those initially projected in business cases."
"Through the digital transformation process, we seek to implement a strong platform that will provide us with new digital possibilities. We think about remote work in a vigorous and comprehensive way, since mobility through the region is a frequent topic for our collaborators."
"We’re now running our business on a platform that has high availability, scalability, and improved resiliency. With the delivery of our entire SAP landscape on Azure, we can now make it fully resilient for both planned and unplanned downtime."
"Our SAP on Azure journey was completed with an on-time migration of SAP ECC, SCM, and PO to SAP HANA 2.0, with more than 100 virtual machines, over 15 systems, 15-plus TB, and five new technologies. We converted 22 TBs of data hosted on Oracle to SAP HANA in less than 12 hours."
“We were amazed at how quickly we accomplished this project. We’re experienced at using data science to create our own solutions, and Azure Cognitive Services helped us further accelerate the delivery of a client solution.”
"Azure Unified Pipeline allows us to send any information between different parts of the network while giving managers the ability to operate individual parts without affecting the overall running of the network."
“We initially approached every system separately and independently. But we soon understood that these systems had to talk to each other and be connected in a much more efficient way.”