The world of higher education is changing, and Georgia State University is leading the charge. To prepare its graduates to succeed in the workplace, the university is developing students’ technical skills by using Microsoft Office 365 to incorporate technology into all facets of its curriculum. Teaching students how to create blogs, collaborate in new ways ...
Is it possible to predict whether students are at risk of dropping out of school? The Tacoma Public School district thinks so. Using predictive analytics tools based on Microsoft cloud technologies, the district is providing comprehensive data snapshots of student success indicators and has already helped to improve graduation rates from 55 to 78 percent. ...
As a leading media and publishing organization in Thailand, every day consists of an endless cycle of deadlines for the Post Publishing Group, with both office-bound and remote staff pushing the envelope in producing content for its various channels such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, commercial printing and digital content. In a bid to better ...
Energy “Powerhouses” Siemens and Enel collaborated to create an “Energy-of-things” power management solution using Microsoft Azure. The new solution allowed them to host applications developed in HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js and MongoDB on Linux. The Siemens-Enel co-owned Energy Management System (EMS) integrated energy data and information from sensors to manage smart buildings, electric vehicles and public ...
Not only did Tenax Group discover that initial security concerns over migrating its personal productivity systems to the cloud were unfounded, but the move has also generated significant cost savings of about 18% on its previous licensing arrangements. The modernization of the firm’s IT infrastructure has likewise meant that its tech staff no longer spends ...
When Western Washington University decided to migrates it on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server environment to a Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based solution, the IT department designed a hybrid strategy that makes it possible for staff to simultaneously search both environments to find the content they need, irrespective of location. By moving to the Office 365, staff members ...
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, delivers the open OS for next-generation, web-scale applications. From utilities to telcos to enterprise environments around the world, Ubuntu and Canonical provide a stable foundation and a comprehensive toolset for innovation. Ubuntu is used by enterprises in many of the largest scale-out environments, and IBM’s Power Systems are known for ...
USEK was the first University in Lebanon to migrate the Microsoft Office personal productivity applications used by its 1,400 staff to the cloud as part of a 15-year-long project to become a truly ‘green’ organization. It had already moved its students to the cloud and has achieved high levels of cost and productivity savings due ...
Aladdin Bail Bonds helps people get out of jail quickly. The company used Microsoft Office 365 to streamline its bail bond posting procedure, reducing a two-hour process to about 15 minutes. This helps the company be more competitive and makes customers happier. Aladdin uses Office 365 to boost productivity companywide, better secure its email and ...
When your industry’s revenue projections flatten, how can you break away and continue to grow? Learn how Orange Business Services leveraged NetApp storage to reinvent their company by becoming a cloud services provider and exceeded their revenue goals of zero to €500 million by 2015. Subscribe to the Cloud Insider Newsletter This is your go-to ...
For Avanade, the Accenture/Microsoft joint venture that provides business technology solutions and managed services, it is not enough to use the latest Microsoft technologies to run its business. It also has to demonstrate compelling expertise in those technologies to win new business. The company saw the chance to do both with the release of Windows ...
UL (Underwriters Laboratories), a world leader in advancing safety is best known for testing and certifying a wide range of products such as life-saving devices, fire suppression equipment and household appliances. As part of an initiative to provide a comprehensive unified communications solution, it deployed a Microsoft platform that included both on-premises solutions and Microsoft ...
When BMW Latin America had to promote the launch of two new model lines, it wanted to kick off an interactive marketing campaign through the Facebook social network that would support the launch and collect audience data. BMW used Windows Azure to support a solution that integrated the Facebook promotion with its internal Microsoft Dynamics ...
As a member of the Nihon Unisys Group, UNIADEX develops a full lineup of services related to the integration, operation management and maintenance of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) systems. Their challenges are to strengthen security of the company’s PC environment and improve remote productivity and to test the company’s ability to provide VDI (Virtual ...
KSC Commercial Internet Co., Ltd. (KSC) was founded in 1994 to be Thailand’s first internet service provider and is recognized as a pioneer in building that country’s internet infrastructure. Their challenges are to expand its portfolio by adding a selection of cloud-based and other business services is a key element in its competitive strategy and ...