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Careerify is a cloud-based, for-purchase, social recruiting solution that helps companies identify and recruit talent from within their own employees’ social and professional
networks. The solution, centered on the Windows Azure platform, features a Recommendation Engine that automatically identifies and advises an employee on the right candidate in their network for a specific job. According to Careerify CEO Harpaul Sambhi, “Windows Azure offers multitenant scalability, flexibility, and virtually no downtime, so we can onboard as many new accounts as we need.”
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Exceedra is a leading provider of IT solutions that help
consumer packaged goods companies and retailers manage their
commercial operations and supply chains. In response to customer
requests for cloud-based solutions, the company redesigned its
core software for the Windows Azure platform. This strategic
move is helping Exceedra customers, while significantly expanding
the solution provider’s ability to speed up its sales cycle
and reach new global markets and customer segments.
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China-based Gridsum wanted to deliver its services to customers
outside of China, but without the latency issues that global
customers would face with a solution hosted only in China. Gridsum
migrated its Web Dissector service to Windows Azure and now
enjoys simplified IT maintenance along with a solution that
is highly available, no matter where customers are located.
By expanding its business, Gridsum anticipates a 30 percent
revenue boost.
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JUSTPROUD is a unique fashion initiative that encourages
participation from those in the fashion industry and produces
limited-quantity merchandise that is developed for, and by,
the JUSTPROUD member community. JUSTPROUD chose the Windows
Azure platform for its compute and storage needs, including
Microsoft SQL Azure and the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network.
As a result, JUSTPROUD achieved its goal of simple, fast scalability.
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Kaggle is a company and platform launched to provide a link
between organizations needing specialized analytic and scientific
skills with a global pool of researchers and scientists who
can provide those skills. The company turned to Windows Azure
and Microsoft development tools to relaunch the site. With Windows
Azure, Kaggle has a highly scalable platform capable of supporting
quick spikes in new users and data traffic, along with a development
environment that supports continuous innovation.
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Lokad is a software development company that delivers sales,
demand, and call volume forecasts for more than 300 customers.
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.
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Mobile Clearinghouse Network (MCHN) is a growing developer of mobile financial products that integrate directly with the infrastructures of financial institutions and governments in emerging markets around the world. Providing an environment for seamless and interoperable clearing and settlement services for financial institutions, governments, and merchants, MCHN makes its worldwide mobile hub available on the Windows Azure cloud platform. Windows Azure gives MCHN the ability to facilitate the movement of money effectively in real time and in multiple currencies.
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Like many a startup, MyWebCareer had big dreams, but limited
means. But unlike many a startup, MyWebCareer is turning its
dreams into reality, despite its constraints. The tipping point:
the Windows Azure platform for cloud computing and Microsoft
BizSpark program for startup success. MyWebCareer saved about
U.S.$305,000 over the cost of building and running its own data
center; it has scalability “on a moment’s notice;” and Windows
Azure relieves MyWebCareer of its IT burden.
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News360 wanted to go global with a highly personalized news
service that could be delivered via many different mobile and
desktop platforms. They chose Windows Azure to host its service,
taking advantage of the cloud platform’s flexibility, scalability,
and data center network to support a rollout to a global audience.
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Internet firm GPC Sp. z o.o. decided to launch an electronic
business card exchange for customers around the world. To develop
and maintain the solution—called nioovo—GPC and IT partner Transparencia
Sp. z o.o. chose the
Windows Azure platform. As a small company with limited
IT resources, GPC expects to benefit from nearly limitless capacity
and scalability, no upfront infrastructure costs, worldwide
customer reach, and enhanced security.
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PartingGift runs their platform in the cloud with Microsoft
Windows Azure, allowing them to push out an ever increasing
number of games per day (1.2 million and growing). Azure is
an easy sell to their customers, like Dunkin Donuts, because
it’s fast, scalable and highly secure. And, as they’ve found,
having the Microsoft name doesn’t hurt either.
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sharpcloud was founded on a revolutionary idea: to enhance
strategy development efforts by using the interactive and collaborative
tools familiar to people who use social networking sites. But
turning that idea into a real service for corporate users required
a global series of data centers—far beyond sharpcloud’s reach.
By taking advantage of Microsoft partner programs and familiar
Microsoft technology, sharpcloud developed and now hosts its
solution on the
Windows Azure Platform. The company estimates that it is
200 to 300 percent more productive than it would have been on
a competitive platform, saving up to U.S.$500,000 annually.
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When the Soluto home PC remote-management tool won Best of
Show at TechCrunch Disrupt, the startup’s hosted server environment
could not handle the resulting spike in demand. After running
on a hosted server environment and Amazon Web Services, the
Soluto team switched to Windows Azure, to help it deliver Soluto
to more than 3 million PCs worldwide, maintain its market momentum,
and uncap its business potential.
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Sopima, creator of an online solution for managing business
contract life cycles, needed to minimize its capital investment
to deliver a viable offering. It also wanted to offer an affordable
monthly subscription service to gain new customers quickly.
Using the
Windows Azure Platform, the company hosts its application
in Microsoft® data centers, providing customers with fast response
times and high scalability. Sopima estimates that, without the
Windows Azure platform, it would have had to hire additional
full-time staff members at an annual cost of approximately U.S.$500,000.
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TalentSoft is a Paris-based independent software vendor (ISV)
that provides human resource management software as a hosted,
modular solution. To reduce the time needed to bring new customers
online and to reach new global markets, TalentSoft moved its
software from a traditional hosting model to the Windows Azure
platform. The result is much faster time-to-market, a 50 percent
reduction in hosting costs, and more ability to focus on innovating
the company’s product suite.
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Transactiv facilitates business-to-business and business-to-consumer
commerce through social networking websites. Transactiv developed
its solution on the Windows Azure platform. As a result of using
Windows Azure, Transactiv gained the scalability it wanted while
avoiding capital expenses and saving a projected 54.6 percent
of costs over a three-year period compared to an on-premises
solution.
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