"Cost was a huge consideration since we were budget constrained. I wanted to give my chief financial officer and chief information officer something to smile about."
"Employees have said that the ease and convenience of Office 365 and Surface Pro has improved their quality of life and now they enjoy coming to work and are better able to serve their constituents."
"We were able to train the Custom Speech Service on our keywords and phrases in our game, which greatly contributed to speech recognition accuracy."
"Simply Business is using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services tabular models to provide users with interactive reporting. It has built an innovative extract, transform, load (ETL) layer using flexible new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services together with a tabular model to import variably structured data from its website. Part of the ETL was metadata-driven, allowing rapid responses to website changes. SQL Server 2012 supports structured data on scalable relational database and data warehouse offerings, as well as having processes for managing unstructured data."
“Patients have greater confidence in the availability of our medical service, and they’re more likely to come into the clinic now that they have a sense of security that they’ll see a doctor quickly.”
"By eliminating non-value-add manual work we are able to speed the processing, better serve our customers and manage the business growth of 25% with fewer staff."
“A huge part of the value [from CollaboDoc] is that work is less stressful for our staff and patients are happier.”
"The integration of Visio 2010 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 turned our IT department from a reactive into a more proactive service organization."
“I’m excited about this merger of Microsoft’s delivery capability with the open source community. Having access to open source R models on enterprise-grade infrastructure is great for us. It means that we can really leverage the analytical smarts of the whole community and use them on a familiar platform with real confidence.”
"We now have an integrated system which is much easier to manage and operate. We simply import the data we require by pushing a button, which also means the business is benefitting from much greater efficiency."
"We find the Microsoft Cognitive Services proposition very similar to ours: don’t try to build your own image processing capabilities—focus on your core business, and let us handle that part of your app."
"Although we have image processing and machine learning experts on staff, we were able to get a highly accurate facial detection capability to market much faster by turning to Microsoft."
“Our Microsoft-based identity system is the foundation for our student profile dashboard. With SSO in place, we can let teachers use any applications they want to advance their curriculum, without concern that their lives and ours will become exponentially more complicated with application management issues.”
"People think of Visio as a drawing tool, but we’ve found that it’s so much more than that. Because we can link Visio diagrams to our live data, we can use the data graphics capabilities in Visio to bring our process models to life."
“Teachers were previously spending between 50 and 80 hours each semester to create differentiated learning plans, plus another 15 to 20 hours a week to keep the plans current. This goes to zero with our new student profile dashboard.”