Expecting growth with the launch of a new lending platform, Squirrel migrated its communication and collaboration platform to Office 365 and now enjoys enhanced productivity through better mobility and simplified IT management. By deploying its proprietary peer-to-peer lending system on Azure, the financial services firm gains a robust development platform that allows the organization to innovate faster at less expense. The cloud-based platform also gave employees more confidence in doing their work on-the-go. The fin-tech industry used to require complex and expensive hardware deployments to ensure security and regulatory compliance. This has changed, with simple and scalable development platforms that run on the cloud.