In order for your business to run smoothly you need to be able to deploy and run a wide range of applications in diverse areas such as customer management, inventory, supply chain or your custom applications that give your business the edge over your competitors.
Ensuring that these applications deliver required service levels at a manageable cost requires a database and application platform that has industry leading performance, low cost of ownership, broad availability of applications and custom development skills. At Microsoft we are enabling solutions which are deployed by more customers, running a greater range of business applications than any other database platform.
These customers are choosing the Microsoft solution due to its recognised value, low cost of ownership, security and the wide availability of skills and solution partners.