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whitepaper 3M Launches Web-Based Visual Attention Service to Heighten Design Impact2009-11-01 Microsoft
  A recognized world leader in technology research and development, 3M wanted to make its decades of expertise in the workings of the human visual system available as a service to customers. Using the Windows Azure platform, 3M created a Web-based application that gives designers the ability to invoke complex algorithms to analyze the effectiveness of a design, based on how the human eye will respond. By hosting its application in Microsoft data centers, 3M has made an innovative service available to a global audience, while minimizing its investment in hardware infrastructure and ongoing administration. The solution, which permitted developers to evaluate frequent iterations of the application, helped the company speed time-to-market for its service and achieve higher quality results, faster than in a traditional development environment.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Software Company Efficiently and Cost-Effectively Delivers Software-Plus-Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Acumatica is a software company that develops enterprise resource planning and business accounting software. Acumatica developed its Web-based software using the Microsoft .NET Framework and offered on-premises software that required customers to invest in application and database servers. The company wanted to deliver a software-plus-services solution to its customers, effectively hosting and managing its solutions on the Internet through data centers. Acumatica chose to develop its software-plus-services application using Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure. As a result, Acumatica developed its hosted offering in five weeks, reduced capital expenditures, reduced the deployment time for customers while improving their ability to quickly scale up and down, and improved its time-to-market for new services.

Tags: IT Budgeting, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Company Efficiently Delivers Advanced Forecasts With Scalable Software-Plus-Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Lokad is a software development company that delivers sales, demand, and call volume forecasts for more than 300 customers - from one-person eCommerce companies to multinational retailers. To improve its forecasting capabilities, the company developed advanced forecasting tools and models. However, the more powerful forecasting models required significantly more computing resources than the company had available. Lokad decided to implement its software-plus-services forecasting application on the Windows Azure platform - a quick, efficient process. As a result, Lokad reduced IT maintenance costs compared to traditional approaches, delivered more powerful and accurate forecasts to its customers, and improved its ability to expand into new markets.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Vehicle Values Provider Saves $100,000 With Easy-to-Manage Software-Plus-Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Kelley Blue Book is a premier provider of vehicle pricing information to consumers, automotive dealers, governments, and the finance and insurance industries. The company developed its information-rich, high-traffic Web site using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and supports it with two hosted data centers. In an effort to reduce hosting costs and ease management of its infrastructure, Kelley Blue Book decided to host and manage its Web site using a software-plus-services model. After evaluating software-plus-services solutions, the company implemented the Windows Azure platform - which proved to be a straightforward process.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Developer Boosts Agility, Reduces Costs With Web-Based Supply Chain Management Tools2009-11-01 Microsoft
  GXS was eager to find a cost-effective way to add more detailed, on-demand analytics services to its industry-leading business-to-business e-commerce platform, GXS Trading Grid. The company turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner MindTree to help develop a solution based on Windows Azure - a "Cloud" services operating system that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage capabilities. Using Windows Azure, GXS expects to speed deployment, reduce customer costs, and enhance scalability.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Publishing Giant Creates Innovative Web-Based Service for Small-Business Market2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Two decades ago, Quark changed the course of traditional publishing with its QuarkXPress desktop publishing software. Today, the company provides publishing solutions to customers around the world across multiple channels. To reach more customers in the huge but fragmented small-to-midsize business market, Quark wanted to offer a service combining the flexibility of Web-based computing and the richness of PC-based software. It used the Windows Azure platform and Microsoft development tools to create Quark Promote, a service through which customers use professionally designed templates to create customized marketing materials that can be picked up at a neighborhood printer or received by mail.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Leading Integration Company Speeds to Market With Cloud-to-Cloud Interoperation2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Cast Iron Systems specializes in helping organizations connect Internet-hosted (cloud) applications with on-premises applications. When Microsoft announced the Windows Azure platform, Cast Iron set out to enhance its Cast Iron Integration Solution with Windows Azure platform connectivity. Using the Service Bus and Access Control Service, Cast Iron created the needed connectors in just one day. Faster time-to-market enabled Cast Iron to supply a timely solution to an urgent need. Its enhanced product can help customers host applications off-premises without concerns about interoperability with on-premises data. With the Cast Iron Integration Solution, companies can now use application data wherever it resides and scale workloads without worrying about overloading the communications infrastructure.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Solution Developer Expects to Boost Efficiency With Software-Plus-Services Strategy2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The Information Store helps global petroleum companies access exploration and production data irrespective of where the data resides and presents it in a useful and familiar form. To maintain its competitive advantage, the company was eager to find a cost-effective way to extend its industry-leading PetroTrek solutions to independent oil producers. The company evaluated two "Software as a service" offerings and selected the Windows Azure platform - an Internet-scale "cloud services" platform that is hosted in Microsoft data centers - as the foundation for its online Digital Oilfield solution, along with Microsoft SQL Azure, the Silverlight browser plug-in, and Bing maps for enterprise.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper CRM Vendor Quickly Adapts to New Platform, Adds Global, Scalable Delivery Channel2009-11-01 Microsoft
  SugarCRM provides open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and focuses on its "Sugar Open Cloud" strategy, meaning that the company makes its applications available for a variety of on-premises and hosted service platforms. The independent software vendor recently ported its application to the Windows Azure platform to enable its customers and value-added resellers to take advantage of real-time scalability, geographically dispersed Microsoft data centers, and maximum data availability to gain high end performance without investing in additional infrastructure. The ease of deployment and pay-as-you-go pricing will also help customers control IT costs. Thanks to strong support for programming language interoperability within the Windows Azure platform, SugarCRM was able to complete the porting process with two engineers in about two weeks.

Tags: Software Development Tools, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Egypt-Based ISP Boosts Sales Revenue With Award-Winning Customer Relationship2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Egypt and Middle East-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) LINKdotNET wanted a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution to support customers and expand its offering. It engaged LINK Development to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Forecaster in Microsoft Dynamics GP for integration of financial data, saving hundreds of hours' work daily.

Tags: Customer Management, Office Suites