“A key objective was to generate actionable insights. Any dashboard should help business leaders take specific actions and make decisions, which means these dashboards should be flexible enough to adapt to changing business needs.”
“The tabular model in Analysis Services gives us the ability to be very fluid with the new information we come across. It easily adjusts to accommodate a new business that comes to us or a new insight we may have.”
"The solution we used meant that preparation of various reports and analyses was time-consuming and the reports were not detailed enough for management decisions. Some analyses were only carried out a few times a year, because collection of the data required for such calculations took a disproportionate amount of time. …
"Essentially, I’m supporting the CEO with the same reporting that I use to support first-line managers. There is no disparity in the depth of those analytics for either level, and that also means that there’s only one version of the truth."
"Now, we are getting aggregated, actionable insights from all this rich data through one central repository."
"We use the CityPoints smart-city service to directly engage our citizens and visitors, and then help them connect with our city life and the services we offer."
"We don’t want to have rooms full of business analysts processing and reviewing the data, so we use Microsoft and TimeXtender solutions to provide our employees and customers with the right data at the right time and in the right place."
"Now we have a single consolidated source of truth that everyone uses, and we can increasingly automate our analysis for a deeper dive into the intricacies of the data."
"Our employees depend on having the latest data available to do their jobs, and now we’re able to get them that data more quickly. And because our processes run faster now, we can do them more frequently—instead of just running a single data load early in the morning, we run …
“We process a lot of high-performance compute jobs, where our software scales to hundreds or thousands of cores. Doing that on-premises was becoming limiting and expensive. We had to procure massive amounts of compute and storage to handle our peak loads but, in reality, only used those resources 20 to …
"With Project Online, managers focus more on managing their projects than reporting on them. Communication among managers and executives is faster and more efficient as well."
"Once in a while, we receive positive feedback about how we’ve transformed a job—and the lives of the people who do it—from difficult to straightforward. That’s a great feeling. It’s what digital transformation is all about."
“We also use a lot of services that Microsoft provides, including a planner that comes with Office 365 and Power BI, to enhance our activity reporting. Reporting is now live. We’ve changed our way of working. We can now see problems coming in real time.”
“We’ve built an intelligent dashboard that shows a global summary of environmental compliance statistics from our manufacturing sites. We have Stream Analytics running continuously, looking at signals that could indicate that we’re reaching a critical level for any environmental parameter. With Stream Analytics, we get an early alert that there …
“Biffa grows a lot by acquisition, so we need to expand quite rapidly. In the space of a year we took everything that we could and put it in Azure. I'm proud to say at this point now we're 100% cloud.”
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