"They listen to the citizens, really understanding the need. They make good use of the data to serve their citizens better and to be more proactive. Richmond is leading the pack."
"With our on-premises environment, we could never have done what we did as quickly and as cost-effectively as we did with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services. They helped us cut the development cycle by about 50 percent."
“We looked at multiple use cases for our first mobile app, and RFTU was clearly the best fit. We wanted to empower inspectors to do their job rather than spend time filling in paperwork or being forced to return to the office to transcribe results. Using modern devices with the latest features helped us to provide inspectors with a simple tool they can use online or offline to capture and act on information.”
"We see great potential for Azure Cosmos DB in our products. Building a flexible, scalable data layer with Azure Cosmos DB will enable us to deliver actionable insights to our users."
"By using Azure, we started to deliver months faster than would have been possible in our on-premises environment."
"Using data from Azure IoT sensors and advanced analytics, we can increase safety, enhance productivity, and focus our efforts on improving customer satisfaction. It makes us smarter builders."
“Becoming a cloud-first business was the core of our strategy, and Microsoft Azure was our platform of choice.”
"Both now and in the long run, Azure as a cloud environment is a big money saver because we can do everything so quickly, and its first-class support for popular open-source software makes it a winner."
"Even a big company like Microsoft chooses not to go it alone. It brings companies like Mnubo into a strong partner ecosystem, and that’s how we all win in the IoT space."
"When we first looked at developing a partner relationship with Microsoft, we saw the company as a potential competitor. However, we’ve come to understand that Microsoft is increasingly a partner-driven organization."
"Our relationship with Microsoft is mutually beneficial. We give the Azure engineering team insight into the real-world business problems that customers across industries want to solve. They provide us technical guidance and product roadmap visibility, so we learn what changes and new services are coming next."
"We want to work with our citizens, companies, universities, and NGOs to change the way we deliver public services."
"We had some difficulty keeping service paths focused on actual citizens and their needs. We wanted to use next-generation analytics and AI to better understand the service needs of our citizens and deliver timely, unified services."
"With Linux on Azure App Service, we can be production ready without worrying about maintaining the infrastructure and can confidently autoscale our Nobel Prize site for high global traffic loads."
"We rely on the scalability, reliability, privacy, and security of Microsoft solutions to make our products available to large, multinational customers in a way we couldn’t do if we were buying and managing our own servers."