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Virtual Hospital improves patients’ healthcare access, dramatically cuts costs
Helsinki University Hospital
Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS), a joint authority formed by 24 Finnish municipalities and comprising multiple hospitals across southern Finland, used Microsoft cloud solutions to create a Virtual Hospital, which provides digital health services that improve patient access to quality care, reduce costs, and enable healthcare providers to treat more patients in less time.
UPS paves the way for better service with faster development and artificial intelligence
United Parcel Service (UPS)
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) is upon us. UPS, a long-time IT innovator, is already laying the groundwork to improve customer service with intelligent applications that deliver relevant, seamless experiences to its customers on virtually any device. To accomplish this goal and increase the efficiency of IT staff, UPS recently completed two transformative projects. One initiative—a faster, consolidated version of the UPS Mobile app—has improved customer experience and nearly halves the amount of code, compared with the previous platform-specific versions. Developers quickly brought the app to market using Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin. The second initiative improves service levels via a chatbot called UPS Bot, which runs on the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure. Customers can engage UPS Bot in text-based and voice-based conversations to get the information they need about shipments, rates, and UPS locations.
Cushman & Wakefield hybrid cloud solution eases merger, acquisition impact
Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield is a US-based, global real estate services firm with 300 offices in more than 70 countries. For the last two-and-a-half years, the company has been going through an aggressive merger and acquisitions phase, which left its IT team looking for ways to pull disparate pieces together into a cohesive, user-friendly system. They found a solution in Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium, a comprehensive identity and access management, hybrid cloud solution. As a result, Cushman & Wakefield employees enjoy such benefits as single-sign-on access and self-service password reset, which means they can focus on their jobs, and not on how to access the resources they need.
Startup uses .NET Core cross-platform development to put the moon in your hands
Quantum Technologies
When Quantum Technologies wanted to put the most accurate and powerful lunar replica ever made into the palm of your hand, it chose Microsoft Azure and .NET Core to build and support the LUNAR 3D model and the AstroReality augmented reality mobile app. As a startup, Quantum Technologies needed the flexibility and productivity that Azure and .NET Core provide, to build its app quickly and to scale at need. It completed development ahead of schedule, and the young firm is confident it has the global infrastructure to meet any future need.
Steelcase Demonstrates the Smart and Connected Workplace with New IoT-Powered Solutions
Steelcase
Steelcase, a company with a 105-year history of designing for workspaces, developed a cloud-enabled space-sensing network to help organizations create workplaces that respond to the needs of people while also optimizing real estate investments. Using a network of wireless infrared sensors built upon the Microsoft Azure IoT platform, Steelcase Workplace Advisor can deliver advanced analytics around the clock, making it possible to receive real-time statistics alongside enterprise reliability and security. Steelcase then takes this information and layers their own expertise on top of it, giving organizations the ability to see exactly how their spaces are being used.
Global ingredients and solutions provider finds sweet success with cloud infrastructure for SAP HANA
Tate and Lyle
After more than 150 years of developing ingredients for food, beverage, and other industries, Tate & Lyle wanted to streamline its financial reporting. To support SAP Business Warehouse, the company used SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, with compute, network, and storage resources certified for SAP HANA. Now Tate & Lyle gets reporting speed and capacity, without a big infrastructure investment, and the agility to adapt, innovate, and succeed.
Health service innovator revolutionizes diagnostic procedure with data-driven agile process mapping
CorporateHealth
Odense, Denmark–based CorporateHealth International has a mission to make gastrointestinal investigations easier, cheaper, and safer for patients. With patient safety as its top priority, the company relies on the Data Visualizer feature in Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365 to capture and share processes in crystal-clear visual form for both research and everyday clinical settings. As it expands internationally, having a single, easy-to-use tool that helps it to standardize its process mapping is key to CorporateHealth success.
Aston Martin drives into the next century with Microsoft 365
Aston Martin
After 104 years of making beautiful cars, Aston Martin Lagonda is looking forward to another century with an exceptional, expanded model lineup. The company aims to produce more cars for a wider audience at a faster pace, while keeping intact its heritage of bespoke quality. Aston Martin is firmly on track to accelerate production by using Microsoft 365 digital tools to energize employee creativity, data insights, and teamwork, pushing the boundaries of performance and style for the ultimate driving experience.
Saving snow leopards with deep learning and computer vision on Spark
Snow Leopard Trust
Blog written by Mark Hamilton, Software Engineer at Microsoft, and Roope Astala, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Endangered snow leopards have proven difficult to study due to their remote habitat, expansive range, and elusive nature. In an attempt to gather data, biologists have set up motion-sensitive cameras in snow leopard territory. Over the years, more than 1 million images have been captured, but the classification process has been time-consuming. This takes valuable resources away from actual conservancy work. To solve this problem, the Snow Leopard Trust worked with Microsoft to build an image classification model using Azure Machine Learning, which includes Microsoft Machine Learning for Apache Spark. Rather than taking several hours, automated image classification can now be completed in three minutes.