"Because Azure is a Microsoft platform, we had a level of familiarity that made it a comfortable development environment, which saved us time and effort. It inspired us to investigate new possibilities and add features we hadn’t thought of before."
“It was important for us to develop a cost-conscious culture, bringing cost into our decision making and design processes. We put an emphasis on FinOps to begin educating our teams on the costs of our application platforms. We defined a roadmap with features that increase the efficiency of how we use the cloud, including rearchitecting our platforms to platform as a service, adopting serverless, rightsizing environments, and purchasing reserved capacity. By making costs visible and transparent, we were able to begin optimizing our spend to maximize the business value of Azure.”
"Using cloud services have become standard for IT developers who want to provide competitive solutions for their clients and guarantee operating stability."
"By delivering our applications through the Microsoft Azure platform, we will increase profitability and reduce costs by as much as 65 percent."
"Our archival storage was growing. Using Windows Azure for storage helped alleviate those worries. We no longer provision additional space."
"Edvelop on Windows Azure allows students access to content on their preferred device. So it addresses multiple learning styles, and it’s available around the clock."
"We have accelerated time-to-market as there is no need to buy and set up additional on premise infrastructure. Microsoft Azure helps keep our costs under control and give the scalability require."
"We no longer have to find U.S.$ 25,000 a month to pay to service providers… Our financial position has become much stronger. Overall, we have been able to reduce our costs by 28 percent."
"Hosting our application on Microsoft Azure has helped us reduce the number of instances deployed… We are faster than any of our competitors who offer similar services sans the application."
“We do the computation for the retailers and provide pricing recommendations for every product. We also provide pricing comparison charts that helps the category manager ascertain the best pricing vis-à-vis advertising spends and inventory available.”
"We grow 10-15 percent every month. The move to Microsoft Azure is good because our turnaround time has gone down and loading time of sites and applications has become lower by order of magnitude."
"With the move to Microsoft Azure...we are seeing performance increase by as much as 400 percent purely because of the strength and standardization of the infrastructure."
"As part of the evaluation process, three things we important for us Microsoft Azure had very clear differentiators, which led us to choose it over Amazon Web Services."
"Microsoft Azure saves capital and operational expenses, in return for a predictable, transparent monthly charge. Costs have come down by 70 percent on every month and 30 percent across the board."
"Earlier, customers took 15–20 days to collect data from various sources and finalize a report… We have automated and streamlined the process to deliver the same report in less than two days."