"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."
"We’re always one step ahead and know what we need to do to keep everything running at optimal levels: even when we add new processes. We’re now proactive and not just reacting to events."
"We now have a solution that lets us control our destiny as a company. We implement functionality for competitive advantage and Microsoft gives us the technology and the licensing structure we need to do that without constraints."
“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).”