"The National Flood Interoperability Experiment used Microsoft Azure to explore ways in which the nation’s citizens can become safer, more secure, and better able to withstand the effects of flooding."
"Cloud–native’ must provide tangible results. Azure Spring Cloud helps by taking away the implementation and management effort, so we can focus on our core competencies."
"[Reflex users] would be the first to tell you that, yes, going to a single account to be able to sign on and manage this, having the flexibility of tying this into a non-traditional AD kind of architecture, has been a big win for them."
“The project was a collaborative effort between Slickdata and our in-house development team. We use Dynamics 365 in conjunction with various Azure and Office 365 services to make this a full end-to-end solution for running our business.”
“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.”
"We are looking at drones, IoT, RFID sensors, artificial intelligence, chatbots, and every other futuristic technology you can think of to do mining better, and with Azure we have a broad foundation for exploring all that."
"We selected Accenture to help us manage this undertaking based on its global delivery capabilities, its vision for the journey to cloud, and its ability to support our digital transformation program. After discussions with Accenture and SAP, we all agreed that Azure was the best platform choice for our business requirements. Accenture is a strong partner with both SAP and Microsoft, and Rio Tinto is largely a Microsoft shop.”
"We didn’t always know what the right direction was until we were almost upon it. From a development perspective, the best thing you can do is remain flexible, and the Microsoft platform enabled us to do that."
"By taking advantage of Windows 10 IoT and Azure, we can create an ecosystem that covers everything from the back to the front end, from manufacturing and shipping products to the point of sale at branch stores."
"The ability to use integrated camera modules, upload information to Azure, and take advantage of BI analytics improves the efficiency of retail operations."
"Building SMART by GEP in the Microsoft Azure cloud has completely removed the need for on-premises IT, not only for GEP but also for our customers’ procurement operations."
"Elastic database pools are a perfect fit for our SaaS offering because we can dial capacity up and down as needed. Provisioning is easy, and with our setup, we can keep utilization at a maximum."
“We’ve embraced the powerful Azure algorithm that connects a common SaaS scenario (onboarding new customers in real time at scale) to our application pattern (pre-provisioning databases, both development and live) on top of the underlying technology (using Azure Service Bus queues in conjunction with Azure SQL Database).”
“We wanted to spend our time on solving our customers’ problems, not managing infrastructure. We wanted to make it easy for our customers to get the most value. We initially considered hosting the servers ourselves, but capacity planning would have been a nightmare.”
"By using Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016, we were able to create a turnkey storage solution that meets the needs of our customers and helps us be more successful. That’s a double win for us."