Online digital entertainment company bwin.party provides online gaming and other offerings to almost 2 million people. Because the organization needed a better ability to support rapid business growth and improve website performance, it deployed an in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) solution in SQL Server 2014. The company can now handle 250,000 requests per second and can offer players a faster, smoother gaming experience. bwin.party also expects to save as much as US$100,000 on hardware costs and is increasing revenue.

Aras is a global software provider of product lifecycle management applications based on a next-generation cloud architecture. To boost scalability and availability, and to gain superior business intelligence (BI) functionality, Aras upgraded its applications to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. As a result, the firm’s enterprise customers have achieved market-leading performance with compelling new features. And Aras reduced its development and support costs and is driving new growth.

For Edgenet, serving up real-time information is its lifeblood. To ensure that its customers receive timely, accurate product data, Edgenet powers its online selling guide with the In-memory OLTP solution delivered with Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Edgenet is also using self-service business intelligence (BI) to improve its own operations. By taking advantage of Microsoft in-memory technologies, the company can provide real-time access to product data, gains seven times faster throughput, and improves both customer satisfaction and business insight.

Making Waves helps businesses work with of web, mobile, and new media. One of its customers, a Norwegian media company called VGTV, wanted an interactive Windows 8 app that would collect user data. To simplify development, Making Waves built the solution on the Windows Azure platform with Windows Azure Mobile Services to take advantage of its platform-as-a-service offering. Launched in six months by a small development team, the solution collects and stores personalized information—including program preferences—in the Windows Azure SQL Database. When new videos are uploaded to Windows Azure, push notifications are also sent to the user’s app. Running in the cloud, the videos can be watched on virtually any device. With a solution based on Windows Azure, Making Waves has reduced time-to-market and provided VGTV with an innovative way to attract a new generation of media-savvy consumers.

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.

JUB group is a successful international corporation with more than 135 years of tradition in the production of paints. In addition to the parent company in Slovenia, the group has two manufacturing facilities in Slovenia and Serbia, a development center in Slovenia and local subsidiaries in Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia and Kosovo.

Replacing an offender management system that had exceeded its useful life, the Illinois Department of Corrections is pioneering cloud-based corrections technology that will help the agency fulfill its mandate to reform and modernize criminal justice and ensure public safety.

Dynamic Communities is the independent administration organization behind professional associations and software user groups, such as the Dynamics AX User Group (AXUG), the Dynamics GP User Group (GPUG), the Dynamics CRM User Group (CRMUG), and the Dynamics NAV User Group (NAVUG). Altogether, the organization includes some 22,000 members across 32 countries.

The City of London is an ancient organization using modern technology to deliver services to a large and complex range of constituents that includes local residents, visitors, small businesses, international corporations, embassies, and over 300,000 daily commuters. Microsoft Dynamics CRM has enabled the city to unify how and where it stores data, providing a single view of customer information. Now when a customer makes a query, service agents can see who they are, what services they receive, what their service history is, and so on.