"The one thing that's challenging about Azure is keeping up with all the new services. It felt good to have someone at our side to help us make the right decisions and answer questions. UDT was our guide along the way and serves as a beacon to ensure that we are choosing the right services and developing out Azure-based applications in the most efficient and cost-effective way."
“For NATS, it’s about the ability to look for hotspots, identify the underlying causes, make changes, and then monitor the benefits. That’s how we’re using Azure to add to the continuous improvement of the overall air traffic network across the UK.”
“This is especially true in China, where people are spending a lot more money when it comes to both personal and business travel. In the past few years, there has been an industry growth rate of about 20 percent—much faster than [China’s] GDP growth.”
"By using StorSimple and Windows Azure storage service, Steelcase has been able to reduce SAN storage costs by 46 percent."
"Now we can remain focused on evolving and amplifying our program, without being constrained by technology-related issues."
"With Windows Azure, we have a global reach for our OnDemand solution. We can expand our markets as Microsoft expands its Windows Azure data centers."
"We cut what used to take us six to eight months in development time to about one or two with Azure fully managed platform services, reducing our time-to-market by two-thirds. Now we can get an innovative new feature out in just weeks."
"Windows Azure is helping us break down barriers to work with more partners, reach more customers, and compete on whole new levels."
"Our vision is to be the national leader in patient-centered e-healthcare.… Using Windows Azure as our delivery system provides us with a level of trust and reliability that makes this possible."
"We wanted to spend less time managing servers and infrastructure and more time developing features which provide value to our customers, and we thought that Azure would make this possible."
"Although the Pier 1 Imports brand is the same as it has been for more than 50 years, we are continually getting better at identifying what our customer wants, using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and resulting data insights."
"In the future, we believe we will have the ability to get predictive data with the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning solution, which we would be able to use to put a more-customized message in front of our customers."
“MAX451 gave us the opportunity to find solutions to our problems in the cloud, where we might not have looked for analytics. The cloud lets us get our hands on clickstream data without having to make significant technology purchases.”
“The retail industry is going through a paradigm shift. Customers are shopping more online and they have more choices. In response, our goal is to ensure wherever she engages with the brand, whether in the store, on her home computer, on her mobile device – it’s a very personal and consistent message.”
"With a data discovery platform based on Windows Azure, our customers can take advantage of data that might otherwise go unnoticed. We see things that no one else can because we are able to track them differently."