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Taking the risk out of risk management
Milliman Consulting
In the insurance industry, the biggest risk of all might just be business as usual. Running risk models consumes and produces large volumes of data. Increasingly complex regulations and compressed reporting timelines are pushing legacy systems to their limits, revealing that the old way of working is fundamentally flawed. This is why insurance providers look to Milliman, one of the world’s largest actuarial and consulting firms, and its state-of-the-art financial and risk management platform Integrate®. Powered by the Microsoft Azure cloud, Integrate gives insurance companies access to unlimited computing resources to perform compute- and data-intensive, mission-critical work. With the advanced reporting capability of Microsoft Power BI Embedded built in, Integrate provides a rich, immersive experience that allows users to simply and intuitively visualize and analyze data in one place.
Combining traditional know-how with modern insights: a firm’s journey to digital transformation
Kelly Roofing, LLC
The largest roofing contractor in Florida’s Collier County, Kelly Roofing is a second-generation, family-owned business. Two years ago, the company began its digital transformation with Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and it won the Modern Small or Medium Business category of Microsoft’s 2015 Visionary Award. Since then, the company continues to build its competitive advantage with the adoption of Dynamics 365 for Financials.
Embracing the public cloud for greater agility and security
Willis Towers Watson
As part of its digital transformation, the Risk Software and Technology Solutions group at Willis Towers Watson is transitioning global employees to a hybrid-cloud architecture in Microsoft Azure. Leading the charge are the company’s international developers, who are migrating projects to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services to expedite efficiency and control. They’re also enjoying greater agility. Instead of waiting weeks for development environments, they can now self-provision what they need in Azure within a few hours. To facilitate high levels of security, Willis Towers Watson takes advantage of industry-leading, ISO-certified Azure services. Today, its cloud infrastructure has more layers of protection than its on-premises systems.
Building a new future: Transforming Australia’s construction industry with digital technologies
ATF Services
ATF Services, a leading provider of security and safety solutions for Australia’s construction industry, has launched a pioneering, intelligent, multisensor, IoT alarm system using Microsoft Azure Service Fabric and Azure IoT Edge. The firm teamed up with software developer Two Bulls to create a platform that connects low-powered IoT devices to Azure and a mobile app. Easily installed virtually anywhere, the new platform puts sophisticated site surveillance within reach of everyone from private homeowners to large construction firms.
Cargill builds a more fertile and secure platform for innovation in the public cloud
Cargill
Cargill is a leader in the global food supply chain. This $1.64 billion organization continually innovates its products and processes to help feed and nourish more people and animals. So when time-consuming software upgrade processes began hindering development, Cargill moved its onsite Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server environments to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) in Microsoft Azure. With the help of third-party Northwest Cadence, Cargill’s international teams made that move in just six weeks, while meeting stringent security requirements and retaining the detailed history of all team collections. Today, developers are more agile because they always have access to the newest technologies in VSTS, including built-in tools for continuous integration. And they’re more efficient because they no longer have to manage software upgrades, custom process templates, and hardware provisioning. Developers use Azure IoT Hub to provide free Wi-Fi to customers and create new revenue opportunities
Emirates Airlines
Emirates Air Line is a cable car line owned by Transport for London that runs across the Thames River. Transport for London wanted to improve customer service while operating its cable car service more efficiently and cost-effectively. Working with Microsoft partner TBS Services, the transport authority is combining Microsoft Azure, TV White Spaces, and other technologies to provide free Wi-Fi service to passengers, enhancing customer service and creating new revenue opportunities. It is also obtaining the accurate and timely insights it needs to improve operations and perform predictive maintenance on its cable car equipment.
The secret life of water
Evoqua Water Technologies
Evoqua Water Technologies is a 100-plus-year-old company that has reinvented itself for the digital age. A provider of water purification solutions to 90 percent of the Fortune 500, Evoqua is using Microsoft Azure advanced analytics to transform field-equipment data into valuable insights for customers. This is helping Evoqua evolve from a supplier of water purification gear to a premium provider of water intelligence. Evoqua utilizes this same data intelligence throughout its organization; in particular, its field service team uses data-driven insights in combination with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to recommend new services while onsite with customers. In short, these new cloud tools are helping Evoqua do a better job than ever of taking the worry out of water. Developers use cloud power to boost quality of automotive parts manufacturing
Fagor Ederlan
Nobody wants defective steering or brakes on their car, but it’s not easy to find defects in aluminum parts the moment they’re manufactured. Developers working for automotive parts maker Fagor Ederlan were tasked with building a system that could use the available manufacturing data to predict quality issues. Their work was made more challenging by a diverse range of legacy and proprietary equipment, data access issues, sheer data volumes, and network constraints. Using a Microsoft Azure cloud solution and machine learning model, a joint developer team was able to create a prototype solution that identifies defective parts sooner while conserving network bandwidth. Most importantly, it can be applied to the different machines and factories in the organization’s global system.
Moodle on Microsoft Azure to streamline and improve institutional communications
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Di Tella has more than 1,500 courses per year. All interactions and exchanges of information, outside of class, between teachers and students are conducted using the platform. The migration to the cloud provided a degree of flexibility thanks to the scalability of the resource when needed. It is also simple to manage, which also reduces costs. An open source tool, operating on Microsoft Azure.
Leading Middle East SaaS vendor established in the cloud transforms product with migration to Azure
Cazar
Formed in 2003, Dubai-based Cazar was born in the cloud and its award-winning Sniperhire e-recruitment technology has always been marketed as a robust online solution. Intriguingly, though, 14 years of success on, the company’s made a careful move to a new cloud platform - Microsoft Azure. The reason: access to a treasure trove of powerful platform-as-a-service features, says its CTO - and better ways to run his infrastructure.