"A typical day for me involves making multiple decisions. This means relying on multiple sources to get the necessary data, analyzing the data to find patterns and signals, which then aid me in the decision-making process. The team’s initiative to put up a dedicated data platform - MindSight - has been an extremely welcome move. What I like even more is the fact that, now I have cross-functional data available to look at a problem statement from different perspectives. I am sure that MindSight will soon become the go-to place for all data needs."
"We have set in place the infrastructure that enables increased employee productivity and changes the investment profile needed to deliver it. This supports our ability to deliver healthcare and community services more effectively and efficiently, anywhere and anytime."
"After training, new employees are on the bench for up to four weeks. This is an ideal time to get them involved in live projects that build their experience while adding value to the organization."
"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."
"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."
"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."