Hilti Corporation provides innovative technology solutions to the construction industry; however, it needed the latest technology to manage its own projects in an efficient and scalable way. It worked with Campana & Schott to conduct two pilot programs featuring Microsoft Project Online, a cloud service for project portfolio management and everyday work. The company benefits from improved agility and collaboration in project management, which helps to reduce IT workload, decrease costs, and increase productivity.

Moravia IT needed to renew the Windows 7 licenses for its virtual machines, and it wanted to upgrade its physical PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7. The company acquired desktop and virtualized versions of Windows 7 Enterprise included with a subscription to the Windows Intune PC-management service. As a result, Moravia IT kept hardware expenses low and extended the life of its physical PCs.

The Saudi Ministry of Justice (MOJ) needed a resilient and scalable data warehouse to support the modernization of courts administration and notaries who act in non-contentious matters. It chose Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise data management software and interrelated technologies. Eventually, 500 internal entities will connect to the data warehouse. The MOJ now plans to upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

eHouse Informationstechnologie wanted to proactively monitor and manage customer PCs. By offering Windows Intune, a cloud-based PC management and security service, eHouse has reduced PC management time and freed up more time to spend on revenue-generating consulting projects. With a central view of customer PCs, eHouse can address problems proactively and prevent failures. Customers are happier and appreciate the value provided by Windows Intune.

Natuurmonumenten wanted to reduce the operating costs for its aging infrastructure and share them with eight more partner organizations—two other partners joined later. Virtualization seemed a logical and environmentally sustainable path, and the society initially favored deploying VMware virtualization software. But the HP/Microsoft Frontline Partnership offered a more complete solution using the Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter operating system with Hyper-V technology, and the Microsoft System Center suite of products for infrastructure management. Microsoft Gold Partner Avanade took responsibility for project management, systems integration, and technical support. Natuurmonumenten will now pay 40 per cent less in operating costs for its IT infrastructure and benefit from a disaster recovery site for the first time. It can also expect further savings as additional partners join.

Studio Moderna is a rapidly growing, multichannel retailer. Its call centers scattered across Europe serve an increasing number of customers, driving up storage requirements. At headquarters, developers had nowhere to store their data other than on their PCs. Studio Moderna solved these issues by using the File and Storage Services feature in the Windows Server 2012 operating system. The company saved 50 percent of the costs required to expand its storage area network solution for the developers. It opted to store 30 terabytes of data on Windows file shares running as virtual machines in an active-active file server cluster and reduced latency by 15 percent. IT staffers are saving 50 percent of their time managing this cost-effective storage solution, and Studio Moderna is using it as a standard, scalable storage model that it can deploy at all its data centers.

The leading mobile communications provider in Turkey, Turkcell needed to upgrade its infrastructure to accommodate growing data volumes generated by customers using smartphones and tablet PCs after the launch of 3G services. Turkcell decided to support the growth in data usage by investing in Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with Hyper-V. This gives the firm a highly cost-effective alternative hypervisor solution to its incumbent virtualization solution platform. Up to 400 virtual machines—one third of the total at Turkcell—have now been provisioned with Hyper-V for existing Windows-based servers with the help of HP and Microsoft Partner ADEO IT Consulting Services. The firm has also decided that all new Windows-based servers will be provisioned with Hyper-V. The solution is highly reliable and available, scaling easily to meet peaks in customer demand for data services.

DATEV, one of the leading IT service providers for tax advisers, auditors, and attorneys in Germany, intended to deliver hosted cloud-based Microsoft solutions to its 39,000 customers. DATEV is now offering hosted Microsoft Office 2010 to replace an earlier version of Microsoft Office software to 1,000 of its 39,000 customers that have already moved to the private cloud. DATEV is considering adding other hosted services, including Microsoft Lync 2010 and the Windows Azure cloud operating system.

Skipton Building Society needed a self-service portal for development environments for its mortgage services division HML. Its IT Shared Service Centre was tasked with finding a solution that would allow HML to provision virtual machines to keep pace with its agile development requirement. By deploying Hyper-V virtualisation technology, along with the Microsoft System Center 2012 suite of products, the firm avoided a £42,000 expenditure on a proof of concept and licences from the incumbent vendor.

Business process services (BPS) and IT solutions provider Equiniti ICS needed to refresh its infrastructure to offer infrastructure as a service through the Microsoft private cloud. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system with Hyper-V technology and Microsoft System Center 2012 for improved virtual machine implementation, server management, and monitoring. Now, customers get online in one day rather than waiting up to two weeks.