"The Microsoft Consulting Team (MCT) has been a phenomenal resource for VITAS as we shift our healthcare organization to a cloud-based environment."
“With 151 years of history, Turkish Red Crescent attaches importance to time, communication, and quality management to reach more people. Technological developments not only improve institutional processes; they have a great effect on the culture.”
“A poor fit will impact negatively on a person’s mobility, in some cases over a period of years. They’re left in pain and have to return to the orthopedic clinic time and time again. This is exactly what we’re trying to prevent.”
“Retailers understand their stores well; they see the symptoms but rarely is the causation clear to them. Giving them insight means that they can put their time into making a difference on the shop floor or at the negotiation table, rather than spending their time working out why.”
"Giving employees the power to analyze plant production and other data themselves with Power BI will help them make valuable discoveries faster."
"For 28 years, this company was a point-of-sale business. Now, after two years of using Microsoft Power BI and analytics, we've become an analytics company."
“Microsoft SQL Server 2016 with R Services, Reporting Services, Power BI Desktop, and Azure Machine Learning with Data Management Gateway give us an advantage by being able to provide advanced analytics close to customers’ operations.”
"Chillers account for about 50 percent of the energy consumption in a building. It’s higher than transportation or any other industry, so being able to run chillers efficiently makes a big difference."
"We had a manufacturing customer identify a problem in one of its monthly reports. It was able to take corrective action before there was a problem. Downtime in that environment costs about $300,000 an hour, so the company saves a huge amount of money when it prevents any of those machines from shutting down."
"The Pact team relies on data to inform our business decisions and support our strategy. More importantly it lets us deliver the highest quality service to our partners and beneficiaries in the field and around the world. We are excited to use Power BI to not only make our data more accessible and our reports more meaningful but to help foster a culture of learning among our staff and constituents."
"Every day we make life-and-death decisions, so we can’t go on gut feelings or opinions. The data is the most important thing we have. Using Microsoft BI and analytics tools helps us make better decisions and save more children’s lives."
“These data dashboards are tearing down the barrier between ‘data people’ and ‘non-data people.’ Now, with no training, everybody can run reports and use the data on their own without having to depend on others for help.”
“Instead of having 5 or 6 people in an organization who are experts in data, you now have 500, 600, 700 people in the organization that are excited by it, because they see it, they get it. You’re winning hearts and minds of people in terms of using data to do a better job.”
"We can now create dashboards in Power BI, which gives team members almost free access to the data to consume in any way they want."
“The fact that Power BI is part of Office 365 is tremendous. All our people know Excel. With BI built on top of it, we don’t have to train them on anything new.”