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Fast path to hybrid cloud
Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., LTD.
Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd. (MKI) provides IT consulting and digital transformation services to some of the biggest companies in Japan. MKI uses Microsoft Azure to help many of its customers run their IT operations more cost-effectively, scalably, and reliably, but not all customers can move all applications to the public cloud. To help customers realize all the benefits of cloud computing while meeting security and regulatory requirements, MKI is evaluating Microsoft Azure Stack. With this consistent hybrid cloud model, MKI can provide customers with flexible application development options and simplify software development.
Global insurance firm models complex natural disasters with cloud-based HPC
AXA Global P&C
AXA Global P&C manages reinsurance programs for the AXA Group, a global insurance provider based in Paris, France. To create complex catastrophe models for floods and other natural disasters, a team of actuaries created a high-performance computing (HPC) solution based on the Microsoft Azure platform and Azure HPC Pack. Now, AXA Group can improve insurance services with more accurate, detailed information about events ranging from floods to hurricanes.
Industry leaders create a dynamic showcase for digital transformation
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization. TCS has a talented network of more than 387,000 employees in 45 countries and annual revenue of US$17.58 billion in 2017. Dedicated to creating innovative solutions for customers worldwide, TCS developed a new company website that reflects its dynamic vision. To deliver a more modern and engaging experience, the company redesigned the site to run on the Adobe Experience Manager content management system hosted on Microsoft Azure. Built in close collaboration with Microsoft and Adobe, TCS.com exemplifies the company’s ability to deliver on digital transformation.
Risk manager reduces its own risks by protecting data in the cloud
Risk Management Solutions
RMS is a leading catastrophic risk modeling company whose software is used by insurers, brokers, corporations, and governments to make better decisions. To offer customers improved disaster recovery (DR) for their RMS-hosted applications and data, RMS is using Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. With cloud-based protection of its on-premises VMware-based workloads, RMS can much more easily test DR setups, which improves protection of customer data. RMS has eliminated millions of dollars in DR costs and redirected that savings into application innovation. RMS has also migrated dev/test and production workloads into Azure and accelerated infrastructure deployment dramatically.
Local government adopts a hybrid cloud to ensure it’s always there for citizens
Somerset County Council
A single system outage in a local government agency can have dire consequences for citizens. To ensure operational continuity and meet its budget, the United Kingdom’s Somerset County Council replaced its backup and recovery technologies with a hybrid cloud solution from Microsoft. As a result, Somerset has optimized operations, boosted agility, and empowered employees. It can restore files and systems in less time, and IT staff can provision infrastructure that supports backups at least three weeks faster. The new solution also costs significantly less to run than previous technologies. Behind the scenes, Somerset backs up 2,790 system streams including VMware virtual machines and Microsoft SQL Server databases with Microsoft Azure Backup Server. IT staff are now adding more workloads and agentless VMware backups. To store and back up employee data, Somerset uses a multi-tiered Azure StorSimple solution.
The biggest advantages of Azure are a cloud-based platform, the speed of integration, and personality
Creditstar Group AS
Creditstar Group - an international consumer credit provider - was in need of a system that could help assess creditworthiness by predicting the likelihood of a payment default - Creditastar was seeking a credit scoring tool. For Creditstar, there were several options to choose from, however, many of these required hefty user fees, or their own infrastructure, to operate. Creditstar, being Estonia’s leading consumer credit provider, is a pioneer on the local market in the non-banking sector. Although Creditstar's main business is consumer credit, in essence Creditstar is a fintech [financial technology] company, meaning our clients’ needs are combined with technological developments. One such development now in use is Microsoft's cloud-based platform 'Azure Machine Learning', which Creditstar implemented in the beginning of 2016. It helps simplify data flow analysis of large databases, and based on this allows preparation of the necessary prognosis.
Using modern teaching methods to hone 21st century skills
Riga English Grammar School
Education today is unimaginable without teaching thinking, communication and cooperation skills, as well as developing and improving creativity. The meaningful use of technologies is one of the cornerstones of competence-based education, and furthermore this is an excellent way to increase students’ level of interest and motivation. Riga English Grammar School set the goal of giving every single high school pupil the opportunity to experience learning via technologies. This was achieved thanks to the school’s participation in the education project “Ready for Tomorrow” sponsored by Microsoft Latvia and Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, which meant that pupils were provided with tablets equipped with neccessary software. Currently students are using the Office 365 environment for their studies, organising research projects with the Power BI tool, as well as absorbing knowledge from around the world via remote activities on Skype for Classroom.
FOX Sports scores big points with new mobile app
FOX Sports
In sports, every second matters. Sports fans want high-fidelity, anytime-anywhere access to the latest scores and stats for their favorite teams, and FOX Sports delivers. With an end-to-end Microsoft solution, including Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin, Xamarin Test Cloud, HockeyApp, and SQL Server, FOX Sports developers created a five-star app that lets sports fans fully personalize their user experience and immediately parse millions of data points to access instant sporting event updates. Users are cheering and—with the right technology in its corner—FOX Sports is ready for the future of sports.
Connecting the disconnected with aid
Urban Refuge (Boston University)
Nonprofit Urban Refuge sprang from a 2016 Boston University class project to help urban refugees — those not residing in camps — to gain better access to local aid via their mobile phones. Previously, information about aid was by word of mouth. Urban Refuge founders realized that most urban refugees, despite dire circumstances, have mobile phones that could help them keep abreast of their assistance options – and navigate to aid locations. With support from Microsoft experts, the group developed a mobile locator app in ASP.NET Core, using Azure Active Directory B2C and Web Apps services, Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin, HockeyApp, and Visual Studio Team Services. Today, the app is available in Arabic and English, but its user interface is easily localizable, allowing the team to expand to more refugee populations. In its initial version, the Urban Refuge app includes a database of more than 160 organizations, tagged by geo-coordinates, to help refugees find the resources they need. Urban Refuge will pilot it in Amman, Jordan, and the team has a big vision: adapt the app and bring it to urban refugee populations across the globe.
University empowers more decision makers with easy-to-use data analytics
Fordham University
New York City’s Fordham University is equipping administrators with the data insights they need to make strategic decisions about enrollment and understand factors boosting and hindering student success. So instead of restricting the number of users who have access to a custom BI tool and requiring other people to depend on static or manually generated reports, the university is providing hundreds of administrators with an easy-to-use data analytics solution based on Microsoft Azure that includes Power BI and Machine Learning. With it, they can quickly and easily answer questions with custom reports and dashboards using one shared informational source, a SQL Server data warehouse. In addition, the university can improve operational agility, boost data security, accelerate time-to-value, increase staff efficiency, and reduce BI costs by 200 percent.