Sneaky Games creates video games for multiple online platforms, including Facebook and other social media. With millions of players online each day, the company required a solution that could quickly scale up and down as needed. To ensure rapid response times and continuous availability, the company runs its entire infrastructure—including a content delivery network, game servers, and databases—in the cloud on the Windows Azure platform. By taking advantage of features such as binary large object (BLOB) storage and caching services to store player and game information, Sneaky Games ensures that data is always ready and quickly accessible. And with Windows Azure development tools, the small team can speed game development without requiring an IT department. As a result, the company can focus on doing what it loves to do—creating great games.

Headquartered in Beijing, China, Sohu.com provides Internet services such as search, advertising, and online gaming. Employees use email for business-critical communication, so the company’s messaging solution must be highly available and secure. Recently, Sohu decided to evaluate upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 to help improve messaging compliance, ensure high availability, and reduce hardware costs and administration.

With its 2020 Vision for the Keihin Group, Keihin Corporation aims to expand globally by promoting various initiatives such as the development of information infrastructure that links offices worldwide, and achieve its goal of becoming a truly independent system parts manufacturer capable of competing with mega-suppliers on products and technology that contribute to the global environment. The company revealed that its IS department faced difficulty in allocating sufficient resources to the planning and development of new initiatives, as it was burdened by system maintenance operations that have expanded from the backbone system to the information system. It leveraged on “Management Consulting”, a corporate technical support service provided by Microsoft Premier Support team. Through Management Consulting, it was able to identify issues in its business which led to a breakthrough.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is the leading fertilizer manufacturer in New Zealand. The company wanted to improve the performance of its critical SAP applications to better serve customers. To do that, Ballance migrated its database to Microsoft SQL Server 2012, greatly improving application performance. Employees are more productive, and the company has cut storage costs by 60 percent. Also, Ballance can better handle business growth.

SEPCOIII wanted to give its employees a single solution that they could use to communicate and collaborate with other employees, partners, and customers around the world. Employees had been using Gmail for external communication, but found it unreliable and cumbersome. By implementing Microsoft Office 365, SEPCOIII now has a dependable and robust cloud-based solution that significantly reduces costs and boosts employee productivity.

Using the standard connector between Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft AX, Dunlop Protective Footwear is able exchange data between the two systems to improve their business practices. The scalability and flexibility of Dynamics CRM Online helps Dunlop move quickly into new markets around the globe and provides a consistent user experience. Now they can also promote innovation throughout their company by being able to listen and capture feedback from their customers.

Ophthalmologists turn to ifa systems to capture diagnostic information from specialty equipment and create more complete records, so they can focus instead on protecting their patients’ vision. However, ifa itself struggled to maintain secure, remote access to email and important documents for its own employees. Facing the limits of a small IT staff, the software company realized it needed to move infrastructure and administration to the cloud in order to support its remote installation teams. Using a single login, ifa employees can now access Office 365 from a variety of mobile devices for Outlook email, calendars, and contacts. In addition, ifa employees, of which about 80% work remotely, can easily collaborate with desktop sharing and IM through Lync Online. ifa’s IT team no longer works weekends to maintain on-premise hardware, and administration is as simple as sending an invitation.

Coregistics, a full service contract packaging/manufacturing company, was using manual tracking processes and email-based communications in embedded work centers at customer sites, even with line-of-business systems in place. TwinEngines connected systems across companies with a Business-Critical SharePoint solution to integrate and automate workflows, improve operational efficiencies, and speed up the flow of information between companies.

Inova Health Systems built up several line-of-business (LOB) systems over the years causing communication gaps across the company. i3solutions implemented a Business-Critical SharePoint solution with Nintex Workflow which connects LOB systems to ensure compliance, shorten processes, and improve decision-making.

FLO Wine is a division of FLO Brands, a lifestyle company created by Marcus Johnson, a jazz musician who has released 15 CDs. The company produces a Chardonnay and a Red Blend, and is expanding its product line. As a virtual company, FLO Wine wanted a cost-effective and efficient productivity solution that featured a shared calendar. In January 2012, FLO Wine hired C3 Integrated Solutions to implement Microsoft Office 365. Since implementing Office 365, the company has improved collaboration, reduced IT concerns, and increased sales.