"Hershey is well known for having great insight into the customer, but with Azure Machine Learning, we’ll take insight to a higher level in all aspects of our business."
"I just talked with a bank in Portugal about the Azure-based project we deployed with farmers; they were very impressed. They’re looking at the possibilities of using the cloud to serve their own customers."
“Our plan to go global was really the ultimate reason we decided to go with Azure. We have presented proposals in Russia, China, and Europe. With Azure everywhere, once we make a deal, we can spin our application up in those regions in a couple of hours.”
"Setting up EDI processes previously took a month or longer, but with our Azure Logic Apps solution, we can now set up a new EDI process in days. This is money in the bank to pharmas, which save millions of dollars a year in unauthorized debit memos because of this speedup."
"A big reason we were attracted to the Microsoft platform is that UXC Eclipse did a really good job of communicating the value of getting these capabilities as a service with a monthly subscription."
"The topology map in Network Performance Monitor is great because it gives us a good overview of the network and servers. But we also love the charts that show latency and packet loss, because it’s great to be able to see patterns that point to problems. We have the information we need to solve problems before users or customers notice them."
"In the past, network management was a geeky, number-crunching task…. Now, a CEO without a technical background can understand what they’re seeing in Operations Management Suite. It’s information that can be consumed the same way you would market shares, stock value, or other business data."
"There are so many discoveries ahead for us. Azure is making it easy for us to capture the variety of thermodynamic signatures and combine them with other biometric data."
"The last thing I want to do is have a customer go through a 10-step process of defining what they need before being presented with actionable information. Because of the way we’re using Power BI Embedded with our interface, customers can immediately see the value they’re getting from our platform. It’s about showcasing the result first."
"We were hence able to expand our course curriculum to teach more algorithms. With a proper experimental design context on the Azure ML platform, students are able to analyze the performances of different algorithms."
"This allows us to expose our undergraduate students working with samples of real industry data analysis."
"We’ve found our greatest opportunity in bringing the benefits of the Smart home, even without a need for users to purchase a bunch of new and expensive smart appliances."
"With Visual Studio Team Services in place, we’re doing agile release sprints of just three weeks, compared to release cycles that were significantly longer before."
"Visual Studio Team Services is a game-changer for Itron. With three-week releases, we can now respond to customer issues and needs so much faster, while also outpacing our competition in capitalizing on new market opportunities."
"Today, up to 99 percent of Customer Service Delivery is happening in less than 10 seconds and the rest is completed in under a minute. There is also a 50 percent reduction in traffic to Conditional Access System."