“We’re also focused on changing how we work so that we meet the expectations of a multigenerational workforce. Millennials will soon dominate our workforce, and Generation Z is coming along. We need to offer different work styles to accommodate and attract them. Mobility is core to their culture of work, so we want a good, highly secure mobile platform that gives people a lot of choice. We also want to simplify the ‘administrivia’ of our jobs so that employees can focus on where they deliver value.”
"I can't stress enough how valuable Teams has been for us, like the ability to chat instantly with people on the other side of the world. The other day at 11:00 PM my time, I needed to talk with one of my leads in Namibia. I saw that one of them was online; boom, we were able to collaborate on the fly. In the past, we wouldn't know who was available, so chatting was not as simple."
"At FirstWave Group, the ICT team is embarking on several in-house projects to automate more processes across the group companies to further streamline operations. The team looks forward to building and deploying custom web apps for the business that will streamline and further digitize our operations, ensuring we remain the leading aquaculture champion on the African continent."
"[Customers] are getting the speed, flexibility and pace of cloud with the security promise that an organization like D+H, and Microsoft, can bring."
"Arundo’s big data and advanced analytics solution with Cortana Intelligence Suite is very interesting for us to investigate, especially how we can further increase efficiency in our ship operation. We spend a lot of money on maintenance and repair of our ships, so we’re looking forward to doing predictive maintenance, by using the data to understand how the machines operating and proactively maintaining them or exchanging parts before something breaks down."
"Running the business on the cloud has enabled us to lower our TCO."
"Patients have greater confidence in the availability of our medical service, and they’re more likely to come into the clinic now that they have a sense of security that they’ll see a doctor quickly."
"A huge part of the value [from CollaboDoc] is that work is less stressful for our staff and patients are happier."
"All our employees, in sales, finance, production, and other areas will have access to faveo 365, which will grow with our business."
"Our Microsoft-based identity system is the foundation for our student profile dashboard. With SSO in place, we can let teachers use any applications they want to advance their curriculum, without concern that their lives and ours will become exponentially more complicated with application management issues."
"Teachers were previously spending between 50 and 80 hours each semester to create differentiated learning plans, plus another 15 to 20 hours a week to keep the plans current. This goes to zero with our new student profile dashboard."
"Setting up integration partners is much simpler, reducing an hour’s work to five or ten minutes. I’m saving about 20 hours a month by using Azure API Management."
"With Azure API Management, we have a stable API delivery platform that frees us to expand our API business. We’ve added some very large PulseAPI customers, and serve up to one billion API calls a month, with no interruptions in service."
"We’re optimizing operations here - and we are a much more efficient operation now."
"With Azure PaaS, our team members have an integrated platform that makes a Dev/Ops development model easy…. This helps us get new features out faster and reach new markets."