IT Services der Sozialversicherung (ITSV) provides IT services for the Austrian social security department. To support its needs, ITSV created a risk management system with Microsoft Partner Network member process4.biz. To optimize, it upgraded the process4.biz solution to Microsoft Visio 2013. ITSV now effectively monitors risks in coordination with processes, supports better collaboration among staff, and expects a time savings of 50 percent.

To give citizens information about state and local government employee salaries, the California State Controller’s Office engaged SymSoft Solutions to help deploy a business intelligence (BI) solution based on the Microsoft platform. With it, the public can create custom BI using 15 gigabytes of data and 5 million records. The solution also facilitates activism, speeds efficiency, and delivers a scalable foundation to support future BI projects.

Kosmos Energy is a pathfinding oil and gas company focused on emerging areas in Africa and South America. The company’s spreadsheet-based financial planning solution was manual, time-consuming, and prone to inaccuracies. With help from Microsoft partner Altius Consulting, Kosmos deployed a new solution based on Microsoft SQL Server. The company can now create reports and analytics in a very short time frame and analysts can deliver more-accurate data and meaningful insights.

The University of Colorado Denver provides online programs and degrees to nearly 17,000 students. As tuition prices and online education competition grew, CU Online needed to invest in marketing campaigns that would attract and recruit the right students. Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM into existing Microsoft products provided transparency, accountability, and data-driven decision making to invest in the right media outlets and ultimately, provide the best experience for students world-wide.

Fujitsu U.K. and Ireland wanted to reduce operational costs and improve the scalability of its in-house resource planning systems. Fujitsu developed the resource forecasting solution as a cloud-based application using Windows Azure and related technologies. It has reduced costs by around 60 per cent for development and ongoing maintenance compared to traditional on-premises hosting.

To support growth and perform risk analysis and investment guideline monitoring, Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), part of the Credit Suisse group, needed a next-generation data management, reporting, and analysis tool. CSAM built its Strategic Performance, Exposure, Attribution, and Risk (SPEAR) application using Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies and Microsoft ASP.NET, with the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in for a rich user experience. After successful deployment in the CSAM United States office—as well as to the Prime Services Risk Management Group of the investment bank— product is being rolled out at the Zurich branch of the business. The reusability of the platform resulted in fast time to market and a reduced total cost of ownership across multiple areas of the bank, which is now better positioned to adapt to changing risk monitoring requirements globally.

Saxo Bank, a specialist in trading and investment, wanted to automate complex reconciliation processes to strengthen its ability to monitor and manage operational risk. The bank evaluated several products on the market, after which it chose to deploy the SunGard IntelliMatch Operational Control solution. It runs on Microsoft SQL Server data management software and the Windows Server 2008 operating system, matching internal and external data sources with the bank’s financial systems. Since deploying the SunGard solution, Saxo Bank has boosted its position in the investment market, doubling daily transactions and increasing revenues. In addition, it has decreased financial risk for itself and its customers, and ensured compliance with today’s regulatory requirements.

ODEL PLC (ODEL), Sri Lanka’s leading fashion retailer, wanted a scalable solution that will enhance both management and operational visibility across its 15-store network. With Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, ODEL empowered its aggressive growth plans with enhanced inventory management, comprehensive sales analysis capabilities and increased management visibility.

Korea Entergy Management Corporation (KEMCO) is organization that contributes the national economy and develops and supplies future energy. As green growth has become the keyword to stand for these times and the related laws have been embodied, the organization felt the need of having the new class of business efficiency. KEMCO selected the Voluntary Agreement (VA)-related business system started from 1998 as the first target for innovation and then they got the development of BI system going in the end of 2009. It has driven the BI project to maximize the ease-of-use through the Microsoft's solution instead of the existing OLAP tools. Through this, having noticed the business efficiency of the user environment where they can draw the statistics they want on Excel without moving to lookup screen each time, KEMCO has a plan to extend the user-oriented BI into their other system areas.

FTIL’s technology excellence, combined with its deep domain expertise, has consistently delivered mission-critical technologies to market intermediaries across the Financial Services industry. A vertical specialist it has deployed cutting-edge Straight Through Processing (STP) technologies for various markets. To address some of the most challenging demands of brokerage houses in India, the company created ODIN™, its flagship product. Built on Microsoft products and technologies including Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, Microsoft Messaging Service, IIS Server and ASP.Net, ODIN™ offers a complete front office solution, with built-in order routing, risk management and display engine with real time connectivity to the back-office system. It provides robustness, credibility, and neutrality along with the largest support service network and end consumer ownership.