"The Millennial generation is our largest, fastest-growing audience segment, and 84 percent of their visits are on mobile devices. With the Cortana Intelligence Suite, we have the ability to drive a much more mobile-first experience."
"The first Azure Fundamentals courses we organized for our employees, in summer 2019, were like U2 concerts. We would offer a hundred seats and they would be sold out in a minute."
"After the second hands-on trial and skill transfer, we actually started DB construction on Azure from the end of October 2019. Zeal provided technical support using Microsoft Teams and other tools, but we basically constructed the system by ourselves and finished it at the end of November."
"Identity is the new firewall of the future. We can’t continue to use our old way of controlling application access, because business isn’t happening exclusively in our network anymore. With Azure Active Directory Premium, we can stay in control, no matter where our users roam."
"We want to ensure that we’re keeping our operating costs as low as possible to focus our budget on more productive areas of the business. With the help of Azure Active Directory Premium, I’m managing ten times the number of SaaS applications with the same size team."
"With the Azure Logic Apps solution, we have access to much more data and can use Microsoft Power BI to surface all this detail in business-friendly formats."
"Today, with our Azure Logic Apps solution, we can get suppliers onboarded within two weeks versus the two months or longer that the [Electronic Data Interchange] provider required. The faster we can integrate partners, the faster we can grow our business."
"Azure Mobile Engagement is a fantastic direct-marketing tool, because you can collect and analyze all of this data, and then send push notifications to different groups of customers and compare the results."
"The main target of Soon is the Y or Millennial generation. With Azure Mobile Engagement, we were able to create an interactive, mobile-first experience. In a way, it’s a sort of gamification of the bank product."
"This project has had an immediate impact on our business and the way we deliver IT services. Not only have we solved an important business problem, we have delivered the solution at a fraction of the traditional IT project cost – both from an implementation and TCO perspective. All this without once compromising our security standards. As an IT organization, we have also evolved from just automating transactions to automating insights. Using PowerApps, our business partners are able to consume data in real time from many data sources, instantly analyze the data, and drive to an actionable decision."
"When you can build something that fast and see pretty much an instant return, it does allow you to prove out some of these ideas and deliver value to the business very quickly without engaging a large team to do it."
"By adopting the Operations Management Suite, we are finally in a position to see beyond the typical system-level view of monitoring. The focus is on the end-user experience; with these new capabilities, we have been able to model service-level visibilities. Our ultimate goal is to become experts in capacity and performance metrics through automation and by alerting level 2 and 3 support teams to take appropriate actions before a user sees a degradation or total loss of a service."
"The research team wants to be able to monitor all 5,000 of their high-performance Linux machines. I didn’t know how to do it, but then I found out that Operations Management Suite would support Docker containers. What Microsoft is doing is already in line with what we’re doing in research. So when I bring new services online, we can plug them in. That’s going to be a big win—it’s just huge."
"Moving to the cloud was a wise decision, we are able to perform better and faster. We are now focused on the expansion of the business."
"We feel the Microsoft Cloud is a ‘True Cloud’ solution because it is a versatile service offering that can take advantage of consumption based economics, where our clients only pay for what they use, when they use it, while allowing them to focus on what they do best, whichever industry they may be in. That is a very attractive prospect."