Intune gives us the opportunity to safeguard corporate data, no matter what device someone is using. Employees can now use personal devices and move seamlessly between corporate and private apps.
“Other elements of the Azure stack have really helped. We want to provide the framework – security, monitoring, backups – for the business to be successful while empowering business units to solve their own problems. We’ve been able to point the business in the direction of Logic Apps and they’ve been able to create a solution in a couple of days that, if it had come back into IT last year as a project would have probably taken three or four months.”
"As a startup, we wouldn’t have been able to scale Audioburst and achieve our mission of organizing the world’s audio content without a cloud platform like Azure, and advanced services like Azure Search."
"Microsoft Azure readily supports our toolsets within the Element Platform, which are open source. Open-source software is vital to what we do."
"The potential market for our Element Platform solution is substantial and largely untapped. Thanks to supportive OSIsoft and Microsoft Azure technology, we’re now ideally positioned to access that market."
"We have no DBAs. For less than the cost of paying two DBAs per year, Azure provides all of our back-end infrastructure with reliability and scalability benefits that would be hard for us to build on our own."
"Our unique visitor numbers have shot up to levels we have never seen, while we have reduced our backend operational costs thanks to the end of our on-premises software costs."
"With open source on the Azure cloud platform, we can save time and endless hassle whenever stakeholders need to update content by using an integrated set of CMS tools to develop, deploy and manage content."
"Some of our team members were suggesting other NoSQL databases. But while other NoSQL data stores may excel along particular dimensions, none of them could satisfy all of our requirements for easy and rapid application development."
"As we were moving our solution to Azure we were evaluating various options for moving our SQL Server based storage. … DocumentDB provided the flexibility we wanted with JSON, and the SQL query interface enabled us to rapidly migrate, as our developers were already familiar with SQL."
"The ability to be at the capital and modify documents in real time and send them back is huge, because we didn’t have that capability in the past."
"Microsoft has not only provided us with technological tools for gathering data, they have also given us more exposure than we expected. Microsoft is not only technology designed for enterprises, it is also strategic collaboration, and since Education is one of their main interests, there's great synergy between us."
"The Cloud supports our model (SaaS) for providing services to our end business customer."
"The energy market is transforming. Energy providers are becoming service providers. Our company is supporting this transformation. Our entire philosophy is based on Cloud infrastructure."
"With Azure Batch and its Autoscale function, we can target as many active tasks as we need … we don’t have to orchestrate the process ourselves, which has saved a lot of time and effort and results in cost savings for our customers."