Customer Case Studies

Lotte Hotel, one of the leading names in the Korean hotel industry, needed to centralize an IT infrastructure that had been distributed to the hotels in its chain.

After Eliminating Obsolete Technology and Linux Infrastructure, Hundred-Store Cosmetics Chain Smoothly Applies New Retail System with Windows 2003.

MB Financial wanted technology that worked out of the box. That's why Linux wasn't really a contender.

By choosing Microsoft technologies over Novell and Linux, the Michigan Department of Information Technology saved $14 million per year.

Milliman, deployed Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition to reduce operating system licensing costs, retain the reliable Windows platform, and avoid the technical risk associated with a move to a Linux-based environment.

The Ministry of Justice needed to centralize its IT infrastructure and reduce costs. After careful evaluation of available technologies including the Linux open source operating system, the Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony chose Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 R2, saving $2 million in the process.

Modec standardized its IT infrastructure on Microsoft Windows Server System, improving communication, collaboration, and employee productivity, and resulting in an expected savings of U.S.$400,000 annually for the next 9 years.

MySpace is able to provide a rich user experience using the Microsoft "Atlas" client development platform that allows users to customize their profile sites quickly and easily.

By adopting high-performance computing for Windows, NCSA is able to provide access to its Abe cluster to a larger set of industrial partners, giving them an easier, more familiar way to accelerate time-to-insight for demanding computational problems.

Navitaire needed to change its reservation system due to the limits of that system's processing capabilities, so the company upgraded to a solution using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), resulting in enhanced performance and simplified database management.

Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) is a U.S. not-for-profit health care organization. To simplify its architecture and cut over U.S. $2.2 million in consulting costs associated directly to its previous Novell and IBM Web site, intranet, and email products, NHP deployed a Microsoft® Business Intelligence solution.

To combat climbing data center costs, UK hosting and services provider NetBenefit virtualized many of its Linux and Microsoft servers with Windows Server® 2008. The Microsoft solution has also allowed the company to enhance security and support PHP in a Windows environment.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Netsurit closely aligns itself with Microsoft to support its services capabilities, accelerating the speed at which it can resolve technical issues, and to help it better identify and pursue areas of opportunity for increased revenue.

After switching its hosting service off Linux (Debian and Fedora) and on to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Nile Online is expecting 15 percent revenue growth over the first 18 months.

A simple, personal computer-based technology solution was enough to get No1 Currency off the ground but, as the company's business soared, it thought it needed a pricey, high-maintenance mainframe solution to keep growing.

Northern Marine Management (NMM) implemented Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and, as a result, has reduced the amount of time employees take to locate documents, all but eliminated its paperwork, and has won a number of new contracts.

To improve administration and increase communication among parents, staff, and students, Norwich School needed to update its Linux-based infrastructure. The school implemented Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to improve administration and increase communication among parents, staff, and students.

OpSource, an industry leader in the shift to the Software as a Service delivery model, deployed the Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting for Applications, increasing its operation efficiency and accelerating its time to market with value-added services.

Paymaster chose Microsoft Partner CS Group Transoft to help migrate its in-house application to a Windows Server 2003 operating system, resulting in a savings of £300,000 per year, rapid return on investment, and faster batch processing.

PBMR's switched from an isolated Linux HPC platform to a Windows HPC solution and has seen an increase in productivity, saving each engineer at least 50-20 minutes of pre-job submission time.