"Microsoft for Startups enabled us to land our first client and investor, and it took off from there."
“Our unique mix of skills, knowledge, and experience generates innovation and ensures Qantas remains well-positioned to evolve ahead of global trends in a complex and sophisticated industry. The challenges of today’s digital world—big data, mobility, connectivity, social media—mean we have to look at doing business differently. Our customers’ expectations for digital interaction are set by the best digital players in the world. So if they feel like it’s a step backward when they engage with Qantas, that’s a problem for us. Airlines have always managed large volumes of data, but today, we need to integrate everything we know to tailor our service to individual customers.”
"Microsoft Azure allowed us to get our cloud migration proposal approved. When it comes to the company’s website, the management will not choose a cloud service they have never heard of before, because it would not seem reliable."
"With Azure Machine Learning, we can automate the image classification process to feed our scientific models. The data preparation tool helps us combine years of data into an organized and complete source. This frees up our scientists to spend more time on snow leopard conservation."
"If you look at most of the controllers that exist in the market today, they are reactive. We want to be proactive and include predictive analytics at the edge. It’s a real game changer."
"One clear business benefit is operator efficiency. By proactively identifying pump problems through edge analytics, companies reduce unplanned downtime, which decreases costs, increases production, and increases the agility of maintenance services."
"Traditionally, machine learning is something that has only run in the cloud, but for many IoT scenarios that isn’t good enough. Now we have the flexibility to run it in the cloud or at the edge—wherever we need it to be."
"Azure IoT technologies are important for us because they foster reusability. That is, if we develop an innovative solution for one purpose, we can apply it again in another context. As a result, we accelerate innovation across our organization."
"We want to become a one-stop shop that covers everything related to travel. Ultimately, visitors will have a personalized assistant that helps them navigate around Japan with the real-time information they need, right when they need it."
"The ability for our resellers to manage and monitor the cloud spend of their entire customer base from a single view, with full data segregation between customers, is extremely important; and to be able to do that in a multi-cloud environment takes Azure Cost Management to the next level."
"The Azure platform gives us a global, scalable platform with an open architecture…. It provides us with a huge stack of standard capabilities and a security level that we could not easily develop ourselves."
"Although Microsoft Services consists of technology experts, they put the articulation and prioritization of our business goals first, not only to understand those goals themselves but also to ensure that, as their client, all of us were all on the same page about those goals."
"Our core business is football, so having Microsoft as our technology partner to manage the technology infrastructure is important. The Azure platform will help us provide the services we want to offer because it gives us the scalability we need whenever we need It."
"We used to pull data from just five sources before, but now we pull from more than 70 sources using our Microsoft cloud platform. This has enabled us to grow our number of fan profiles by about 400 percent in the past two years—it’s now in the millions."
"Just 12 months ago, our digital team had only five of us, and now we have more than 30 people, including data scientists. With the Microsoft cloud platform for service delivery, we can focus less on infrastructure and more on enhancing the fan experience and business outcomes."