"Azure is already trusted and proven by our customers. Azure Arc uses the same APIs and the same control plane as Azure, providing consistency across the hybrid infrastructure, which increases productivity and reduces risk. I don’t have to spend a lot of time selling them on this, and the customer doesn’t have to spend a lot of time vetting it."
“Migrating to Azure accelerates our transformation by giving us access to state-of-the-art software tools and services that facilitate our transition into a data-driven company.”
"We anticipate that by combining data from our various sources in the digital twin, enhancing analytics, and actioning for better efficiency, we will maximize our energy efficiency to achieve savings in cost and greenhouse gas emissions. In older buildings and new acquisitions, the savings in energy and greenhouse gas emissions can be as much as 20 percent or more."
“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.”
“Bath time completes the day, and many customers wish to make it more pleasurable. ‘Ofuro-bu’ is a curation media [site] where customers write articles themselves as ‘members (editors) of the Ofuro-bu’ to attract more people who ‘love bathing’ through interaction between users. As the service provider, Noritz supports customers in content creation. Through this, Noritz promotes the establishment of a relationship which enables us to constantly gain new customers and to [maintain] contact with customers at all times.”
"With Azure Stack Edge, we're able to use a cloud-like environment at the edge, which enables efficient development. And because Azure Stack Edge hardware appliances can be used for a monthly fee, they're easy to use in a subscription-based business model, which is another major benefit. It's the perfect edge device for DX in the maritime industry."
"We appreciate the flexibility, stability, and ease of use of Azure and the synergy it has with Microsoft 365."
“As a company, we’ve adopted a cloud-first strategy. We start every new business IT project by asking whether a cloud solution is available. If not, we develop it ourselves in the cloud. We’re also migrating as many existing applications as possible from on-premises datacenters to the cloud.”
“The paper-based way of working had its origins in procedures dating back to the 1930s. SNCB spent several years on a digitization project called Intelligent Driver Assistance. Each driver got a tablet that served as a PDF reader for the rulebook, but it wasn’t an ideal solution.”
“The tablets were huge, and whenever the documentation changed, the system pushed the changes out to us and we had to synchronize our devices. This took up to 20 valuable minutes at the beginning of every service before we could even start reading the updates. It was easier than the paper system, but it cost too much time.”
"Microbyte have been much more than a service provider, they’re our business partner, an extension of ourselves whom we work incredibly closely with."
"Everything we do with Microsoft is all about progress. It's all about innovation in the future."
"I speak a lot with my engineers about what I feel in the car and which direction I think we should go. You’ve got to spend time with them, so they understand your language and lingo."
"We wouldn't be able to do what we do everyday if it weren't for the technology."
"We chose to work with a technology vendor that we trust and to use Azure as the foundation to build our solutions and our products, which is an accelerator for us."