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Microsoft and viaSport team up to improve sport accessibility in British Columbia
viaSport
Faced with the challenge of communicating specific information to British Columbians with diverse needs and interests, viaSport turned to Microsoft’s chatbot to connect more people with the right information.
The Real Deal: How Quebec’s Biggest Real Estate Website Uses the Microsoft Cloud to Succeed
Centris
Centris® is probably best known for publishing centris.ca: Quebec’s #1 website for home listings. Behind the scenes, this real estate tech company also provides the province’s 13,000 real estate brokers and 12 boards with the digital tools, insights, and support they need to run their business. And what a business! Every year, the Centris system facilitates billions of dollars in real estate sales.
New Zealand school saves $150,000 (NZD) and enhances education with cloud-based tools
Nayland College
Nayland College was using Google Apps for Education to reduce the need for on-premises servers and software, but the solution was not meeting its needs. So the school chose to migrate to Microsoft Office 365. The new software was so well received by staff and students that the migration finished well ahead of schedule. The school now has access to a powerful suite of teaching and learning tools, and it saved $150,000 (NZD) on hardware. Microsoft partner pcMedia facilitated the migration with its cloud and education expertise.
Setting a fast pace to the cloud: College transforms IT in just six months
San Joaquin Valley College
Established in 1977 in Visalia, California, San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) is a for-profit junior college with 15 campuses, an online division, and more than 20 certificate and associate of science degree programs in multiple disciplines. To gain better uptime and simplify IT management, SJVC decided to move its learning management system and other infrastructure from on-premises to Microsoft Azure and Office 365. With help from Microsoft FastTrack, SJVC transformed its technology environment within six months and continues to innovate.
Why is BitTitan still growing 50–100 percent a year after 10 years?
BitTitan
To sharpen its marketing and sales, BitTitan—which provides solutions to help IT service providers run their businesses—turned to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power BI. Now, it understands social media response to its product launches and other marketing fast enough to optimize its messaging and boost engagement numbers. Additionally, BitTitan used Microsoft technology to improve the quality of leads it offered as sales inducements to its partners—boosting their businesses along with its own.
This Microsoft partner thought it couldn’t generate margins from Azure. Then it thought again.
US Licensing Group
US Licensing Group sold Microsoft products and services for 20 years. But it didn’t often license and deploy Azure until joining the Azure FastTrack program. Now, the company has specialized offerings that differentiate it in the hottest vertical markets. Azure deals close five times faster, Azure business with current customers has doubled, and the pipeline of new customers has tripled. US Licensing Group’s Azure business is a success—with some help from FastTrack.
Brazilian retailer stands out from the crowd with data analytics platform
Fast Shop
Fast Shop is a leading Brazilian retailer that specializes in providing customers with a unique shopping experience and personalized attention. To stay competitive in a challenging economic climate, Fast Shop has implemented a solution based on the Cortana Intelligence Suite. Now, Fast Shop has the real-time insight it needs to optimize multiple processes including pricing and customer engagement.
Which cloud helps FUJIFILM cut latency by 95 percent for a superb customer experience?
FUJIFILM Software Co., Ltd.
FUJIFILM Software took a major step on its journey to the cloud by transforming its popular IMAGE WORKS image file management and sharing service in Microsoft Azure platform as a service. Beyond higher reliability and lower latency, FUJIFILM now has a system that delivers greater customer satisfaction. And it can add new features and releases faster and more frequently, giving it the agility to thrive in an increasingly competitive market.
International Christian University uses the latest technology to go paperless and increase security
International Christian University
International Christian University (ICU) was established as Japan’s first College of Liberal Arts, and it was the first Japanese university to be given the title “International.” With roots in the Christian philosophy, the university’s mission is to contribute to lasting world peace through the education of talented, internationally cultured individuals who serve God and mankind. It is known for its impressive student-teacher ratio, boasting 160 professors to its 3,000 students. To modernize its internal site, upgrade its content management system (CMS), eliminate file-sharing issues, boost security, and more, the IT Center at ICU deployed a solution that included Microsoft Azure, WordPress, KUSANAGI for Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Office 365.
Internationally acclaimed law firm Yuasa and Hara successfully upgrades its corporate site’s security
YUASA and HARA
The Yuasa and Hara law firm is a pioneer in multidisciplinary practice, with lawyers, patent attorneys, certified public accountants, and tax accountants each practicing their respective specialties in the firm’s legal, patent, trademark and design, and accounting divisions. Yuasa and Hara provides complete and multiple intellectual property services to clients both in Japan and overseas. It has a history of international practice dating back to the 1920s and providing international services has become a hallmark of the firm. Its corporate website, which hosts a large number of legal documents that are important to the firm’s business, was increasingly in need of improvement. To strengthen its security, enhance IT management, and optimize use of the site, Yuasa and Hara deployed a solution combining Microsoft Azure and KUSANAGI for Microsoft Azure.