"We are so glad to see that our collaboration with Microsoft has produced good results."
"By using Visio 2010 and Visio Services, we are giving customers the ability to consume up-to-date business information through a diagram from any platform. That is absolutely key for us."
"Because employees can easily access persistent chat through the Lync client and they find it easy to use, it works better than some of our more complex project management options."
"We wanted to make sure the organization as a whole was comfortable with the cloud, because of concerns about data security."
"For our organization, it's all about making sure planes are taking off, flying, and landing safely. We can do that confidently with the new Azure-based mandatory briefing application."
"We are on a digital journey, and with Microsoft as our technology partner, we are well on our way toward strengthening our position as a leading-edge gaming regulator."
"The POC also offered us a great opportunity to test mobile development technologies like HTML5, Apache Cordova, and Xcode to see how they worked with Azure."
"We expect a 5% improvement in modal share* in favor of the public transportation system due to lowering the thresholds."
"We can compare call trends and monitor KPI’s...and work towards effectively resolving any service quality issues much faster to drive customer satisfaction."
"The (SharePoint) systems have become mission-critical, and are a vital component in our ability to achieve our customer-service, business-efficiency and financial objectives."
“With non-clustered columnstore indexes we didn’t have to involve our DBA, operations team, web programmers, or SQL query writers. We just applied an index to the database, and all of a sudden the queries ran 4 times, 10 times, even 20 times faster.”
"Microsoft have done a very smart job with the technology they have put into the cloud so that applications are modifiable and interoperable. With only five IT staff, we have delivered 20 sizable ICT projects in just three years."
“Based on the positive results from columnstore compression on the full database, we decided to force NCCI compression every 100,000 rows, which produced phenomenal results.”
"My major objective was to create a secure, single platform that would enable me to go to the board and say ‘we’re ready for the next step."
"It wasn’t properly configured or available to end-users on a bank-wide basis."