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Making The Case For Azure

Written by Alex Turner | Jun 24, 2015 6:00:31 AM

Are you needing some talking points for that next meeting with stakeholders about the cloud? Here are a few quick cases that could help. So whether the goal is to reduce time to market, increase revenue, decrease cost, bug slaying or just going big, there is an Azure case study to match your business goal.

The hardest part about Azure case studies is deciding which ones are the most impressive. Microsoft has over 600 case studies from customers using every aspect of Azure service offerings. There is sure to be one that is close to the project you have. The complete lists is here, but there are a few I thought were interesting.

Millions of consumers
Heineken reached 10.5 million consumers using Azure in a global marketing campaign.
https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=17735

Rapid Development
Accelerate your development by 30 percent? BookOut did on Azure.
https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=20127

Whopping boost to revenues
Need to boost revenue? Read about how 3M Informatics boosted revenues by 50 percent using Azure to avoid buying and running hardware. Allowing managers to focus on their core business value. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/case-studies/customer-stories-3m/

Time travel?
Ever wish you could change days into minutes. “Before, it could take up to 60 days to purchase and install all of the server infrastructure and software,” “Now, the provisioning is done automatically through Microsoft Azure. We can configure all of the connections in minutes, so from the customer perspective the benefit is huge.” It’s just that easy read how.
https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=11595

Millions and Billions
Operational efficiency. AccuWeather provides up-to-the-minute forecasts to over 3 million locations worldwide via 10 billion data requests per day. Read about how they accomplish the task. https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=18910

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