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"ProStrategy is very responsive and we’ve worked with the team for years because they understand our business well. If we have a question, they have a solution – which streamlines how we work in a positive way."
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"We talked about spinning up a file server for something we’re doing with finance. In a datacenter, that would be a three- to four-week project. In the Azure cloud, it takes maybe two days to stand up."
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"We don’t have a supercomputer. But we can spin up a Spark cluster with five worker nodes within 30 minutes through Azure. We now have access to that power when we need it."
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"By using StorSimple and Windows Azure storage service, Steelcase has been able to reduce SAN storage costs by 46 percent."
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"Now we can remain focused on evolving and amplifying our program, without being constrained by technology-related issues."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Windows Azure is helping us break down barriers to work with more partners, reach more customers, and compete on whole new levels."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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“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.”
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“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 …
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"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."