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Transforming businessThu, 02 Aug 2012 14:00:00 GMT

Luxury audio system maker Bang & Olufsen has adopted Microsoft Office 365 to unify its email, calendaring, collaboration and communication. The Danish company looked to upgrade its email system from the limitations of Lotus Notes to a less-expensive, easier-to-scale cloud solution: Office 365. With all 2,000 employees using Office 365, Bang & Olufsen will reduce travel and IT costs, improve access and ease of use, and also enjoy email, calendars and conferencing that work better together. Click through to read the full press release.

Transforming businessTue, 12 Jun 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Centralized migration to Windows 7 Enterprise increased employee productivity, improved fault-tolerance and security of all systems, and reduced the cost of support and maintenance of its computer fleet. Click through to read the full press release.

Fueling growth and healthy communitiesFri, 25 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

The Catholic International Education Office (OIEC) has entered into an education alliance with Microsoft to provide Office 365 for its community of Catholic schools across the world, as part of a new Social Network for Catholic Education. This will begin with provision of software for 4.5 million students as part of a 3 year alliance plan, but in time has the potential to scale across OIEC's community of more than 43 million Catholic students, at 210,000 schools, in 102 countries. The new network will provide innovative software and services, training and access, to technologies that will better prepare students for the jobs of the future. Click through to find out more about the announcement and access all the press materials.

Transforming businessTue, 22 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT

A U.K.-based events and hospitality firm providing services for sponsors of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, iLUKA has addressed the IT challenges of a tenfold increase in staff while saving tens of thousands of pounds by adopting Microsoft Office 365. The company has markedly decreased its software licensing expenses, reduced its IT workload by decommissioning redundant email servers, and is benefiting from the enterprise levels of security and availability that Microsoft offers. Click through to read the full press release.

Transforming businessWed, 09 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Electronics manufacturer Note unified its communication infrastructure and reduced IT costs by switching from Google Mail to Microsoft Office 365, which delivered greater value and offered a familiar work environment for its employees. Click through to read the full case study.

Transforming businessTue, 08 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT

The Institute for Emergency Medical Service (EMS) in Novi Sad, Serbia, has turned to Microsoft Lync 2010 for assistance with upgrading its once-antiquated dispatching system. The new system saves valuable time and makes it easier for EMS dispatchers to diagnose, triage and send their teams out to medical emergencies. Click through to read the full press release.

Transforming businessThu, 25 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Microsoft and Capgemini today announced they have been selected by Tata Steel in Europe for a project to migrate its two existing email systems to a new Europe-wide standard platform based on the Microsoft Office 365 cloud computing productivity suite. The project marks the first significant deployment by Tata Steel of cloud computing and is one of the first large-scale enterprise implementations of Office 365 in Europe. Read here the full press release.

Transforming businessThu, 14 Apr 2011 16:30:00 GMT

Software vendor HRLocker lowered their costs by 77 per cent after using Microsoft Azure cloud-based solutions for their HR management application offerings. Click through to find out more.

Driving what's nextWed, 30 Mar 2011 16:00:00 GMT

This week Microsoft announced its Vergence single sign-on and context management solution has been selected by Luton and Dunstable (L&D) Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to further its strategic approach to patient care, efficiency and improve the productivity of clinicians. The solution allows L&D Hospital to improve standards by decreasing the amount of patient systems that have to be accessed; and the strong authentication safety protocols of Vergence improves patient safety and reduces the number of help desk calls. Read here the full press release.

Creating new connections and experiencesMon, 28 Mar 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft Corp. and Telefonica S.A. announced a collaboration that creates new possibilities for application development across PC, TV, mobile and beyond, powered by Telefonica's new BlueVia developer platform. This collaboration project combines telco functionality from Telefonica with Microsoft's experience in Web development and the cloud, to help drive innovation in applications and services in a simple and frictionless way. Read here today's news announcement.