"Managing security is smoother with SQL Server. It interoperates with our existing Active Directory to control and maintain proper access. Overall, it reduces time and effort without us needing an additional solution."
"We have achieved an increase in business turnover of between 15% and 20%, and a 300% increase of traffic, compare to key dates from last year such as Black Friday or Chinese Singles’ Day, without problem."
"We knew what we wanted to deliver, but the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure helped us work out design intricacies around things like tenancy, subscriptions, and setting up the system to scale for the future."
"With Private Link, only the access we grant to specific PaaS instances passes through. Access to all other PaaS instances through traditional internet egress is blocked with Azure network security groups to prevent data exfiltration scenarios."
"It was refreshing to work with a group that appreciated the needs of both the technologists and the researchers. The Microsoft Azure technology actually beat the data implementation."
"The beauty of Azure is that you can create all your app services, SQL databases, configure firewall rules, backup, log analytics, within two hours. We saved a whole week for just infrastructure preparation."
“We knew pretty early on [in COVID-19] what we were looking to achieve, just from a core descriptive analytics perspective, and that we had to get all of our data in one place It sure helped that we had done the work to get all of our data organized, engineered, and migrated into the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics platform—and pulled in using Microsoft Power BI, in some instances.”
"Using information as a tool was just as important as our clinical tools, such as stethoscopes."
"We’re eager to share our best practices to benefit all organizations who serve people with complex care and support needs."
"Microsoft is incumbent in our psyche. We’ve always been naturally aligned through our values and the quality of the applications. Microsoft has always been a great partner. We trust Microsoft."
“We already had a clear plan about how we were going to be able to run through a programme for the modern workplace. Obviously, that had to be changed slightly because of the pandemic.”
"We wanted to make sure that a patient’s experience with telehealth was more than just a video encounter. It was important that the patient had something tangible to walk away with after the encounter.”
"The way we develop in Azure has fostered some great behaviors. By building in redundancy at each stage and developing clear audit trails, there’s complete accountability in our development. That helps us maintain trust with our customers."
“Microsoft is now being recognised as core to what the council wants to achieve going forwards.”
"I think being able to turn it from a keyboard device to a tablet is brilliant. I love the fact that you’ve got a stylus pen with it as well, which I use regularly."