Customer Case Studies

Get valuable insight from customers who conducted their own analyses to compare the costs and benefits of Windows Server and other platforms. See what their evaluations revealed about total cost of ownership, reliability, security, support, and more.
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Accenture
3/7/2007
Accenture improved upon inherited systems by standardizing its internal IT organization and running its global applications on Microsoft technologies, creating a more flexible, cost-effective, and simplified technology environment than ever before.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
11/29/2006
Advanced Micro Devices increased the speed of a key production-planning application by recompiling it to run on the Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system (which was 58 percent faster than a Linux operating system), gaining a much easier-to-manage IT environment.
Agency for the Modernization of the Public Administration (AMA)
10/9/2007
The AMA used Microsoft technologies to create an interoperability framework to connect and provide a single sign-on to diverse government systems.
Alberta Teachers' Association
3/19/2007
The Alberta Teachers' Association standardized its infrastructure on the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft software, improving communications, streamlining system administration, and reducing travel costs. Additionally, its Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise Agreement simplified license management and gained predictable budgeting.
Alecta
1/21/2008
Compared to VMware, Microsoft virtualization technologies are extremely cost effective, yet provide all the functionality Alecta requires.
Altair Global Relocation
5/4/2006
Altair Global Relocation restructured its IT systems on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft system management tools, resulting in annual revenue growth, increased net income, accelerated data access, and a strengthened business model.
AmerenUE Callaway Nuclear Plant
4/18/2007
AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant improved their agility to meet business needs by migrating 50 mainframe applications off the mainframe to an environment based mostly on the Windows Server® operating system.
American Power Conversion
4/16/2007
American Power Conversion upgraded to SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), and now Siebel transaction response times are 100 percent faster, the solution will scale to support a 300-percent increase in the user base, and the company has saved U.S.$800,000.
American University of Beirut
3/6/2007
American University of Beirut standardized on the Windows Server 2003 operating system and Active Directory directory service, creating an interoperability "backbone" that resulted in simplified system administration and gave the IT staff more time to develop new services and innovations.