The new sales support system launched by Photas is based on Microsoft Dymamics CRM 3.0, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Silverlight technology. To optimize interaciton with the company's clients, the new system affords each customer their own "personal work space" where collaboration with Photas and vice versa is easy and convenient.

Until three years ago, local government in the Plzeň region of the Czech Republic delivered public services by largely paper-based systems, with businesses and citizens making requests for services across the counter in working hours. In 2005, the regional administration sought European Union funding for an information portal capable of supporting transactional services for citizens and improved collaboration between different agencies of local government. HP won the public tender with full support of a portal based on a Microsoft® orchestration layer, desktop suite, operating system, and data management software. As a result, around 70 services are now accessible online to more than 500,000 citizens. The new Virtuos system also interfaces with national e-government initiatives.

The Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI) in Jordan wanted to implement a Web-based collaboration portal to become the central gateway for sharing documents and performance data. Microsoft Jordan recommended Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 for the portal and Web site content management system. As a result of workflow automation, the MWI has saved significant time and money and improved its efficiency in supplying data to stakeholders.

Microsoft software – Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 – underlies the cartographic service with an ability to review traffic jams and a search functionalities.

Ferrari wanted to make its Web site as state-of-the-art and captivating as the cars it manufactures. The company migrated from a Java-based infrastructure to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to streamline development, simplify content management, and improve the user experience. With the new site, Ferrari has created a stronger audience connection. Site traffic has increased by 237 percent, with a 150 percent increase in unique visitors.

Genes Reunited is the leading family history Web site in the United Kingdom (U.K.). Its 9.7 million members use the service to build family trees and trace the histories of their ancestors. Because location is a crucial factor in many searches on the Web site, the company’s management team decided to implement a mapping feature using Bing™ Maps for Enterprise. Released in January 2009, the tool helped to boost the number of unique visitors by 55 per cent.

During Super Bowl week, more than a half-million people converge on the host city, which has an enormous responsibility to ensure the security and smooth flow of events for visitors, as well as citizens of the city. The 2009 Super Bowl required the Tampa Police Department (TPD) to coordinate 25 regional and national agencies in a coordinated security effort. The TPD deployed an integrated command and control platform based on Microsoft® technologies and developed by Microsoft Gold Certified Partner E•SPONDER. Using these IT tools, the TPD was able to plan and run a successful security operation for Super Bowl XLIII, while delivering a reduction in labor costs versus budget thanks to efficient resource allocation.

Looking to make the most of its exclusive license to distribute Major League Baseball (MLB) online to the Japanese market, Yahoo! JAPAN needed to find a way to get content to users on multiple technology platforms while protecting the content. When the company heard about the digital rights management capabilities available in Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2, it began working with Microsoft and local Microsoft Certified Partner 2ndFACTORY to create a new service based on the technology. As a testament to how easy Microsoft Silverlight is to work with, Yahoo! JAPAN was able to bring the service to market in time for the start of the MLB championship series in just two-and-a-half months. Yahoo! JAPAN now reaches more users with MLB video and will continue to attract new visitors and improve usability of its site with Microsoft Silverlight.

Headquartered in Dubai, netlinkblue is the media technology and services firm that won the online broadcasting rights to the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket season. The company wanted to pursue an advertiser-supported model and needed to attract the largest possible audience of cricket fans from around the world. netlinkblue used the ubiquity of the Microsoft® Silverlight™ browser plug-in to stream cricket matches to fans regardless of their browser or connection speed. Fans could follow matches in near-real time, with advanced features such as picture-in-picture displays of game highlights and interactive activities including chat, voting, and updated profiles of teams and players. At the end of the IPL season, netlinkblue had served nearly 200 million page views—three times more than the previous season.

A charter of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to educate the public and inspire students. NASA hosts a Web site for the purpose of generating public awareness about the Mars Science Laboratory rover known as Curiosity. The Mars team wanted to add even greater interactivity to let people explore the new rover and to give them a realistic feeling of the rover’s scale and testing environment. NASA worked with Microsoft to create an online three-dimensional view of a full-scale model of Curiosity by using Microsoft® Photosynth™ technology and Microsoft Silverlight™, the cross-browser plug-in. Now, by using Silverlight, NASA can let the public explore the new Mars Science Laboratory and generate greater awareness about the project, while enabling people to enjoy virtual experiences that bring the universe to their desktops.