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E-signature provider transforms the industry
CHALLENGE
Scale data systems to meet rapid growth while ensuring security and high performance
SOLUTION
SQL Server 2016 for performance, reliability and scalability
Azure cloud services for reduced CAPEX
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Billions of data samples ingested and analyzed per day
Transactions processed in real-time with uncompromising security
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Payment processor speeds up all transactions
CHALLENGE
Meet high levels of performance and security for their round-the-clock demand for services
SOLUTION
Move entire data warehouse to a load-balanced SQL Server 2016 Always On Availability Group
Leverage in-memory OLTP, Always Encrypted and in-memory analytics
BUSINESS BENEFITS
10-20% faster OLTP and 300% faster internal operations out of the box
50 million transactions/day, with continuously high levels of performance and security
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Delivering with efficiency and security
CHALLENGE
Massive data inputs and slow processing times hampered optimization efforts
SOLUTION
Deployed SQL Server 2016 on 160 terabytes of flash memory Launched Storage Replica for disaster preparedness
BUSINESS BENEFITS
BI processing queries run 9,000x faster to ensure fast I/O and high uptimes Synchronous replication across geographically diverse data centers protects against loss
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Supermarket chain boosts profitability with intelligence
CHALLENGE
Significant unanalyzed data and dependency on IT to develop business reports
SOLUTION
Power BI connects to an on-premises SQL Server Analysis Services cube that includes a staggering 20 billion rows of data refreshed in near-real time
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Lead time required for insights reduced from days to hours
Insights into consumer trends increased profits of select products by more than 40%
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Developer Q&A site streamlines operations
CHALLENGE
Need to optimize workloads while managing costs and meeting 25% annual growth
SOLUTION
SQL Server 2016 enhanced Clustered Columnstore to increase compression
SP1 enables common programming surface
Potential to run on both Windows and Linux
BUSINESS BENEFITS
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Increased page compression 10x, increasing speed and usability of accessing historical data
Future release of SQL Server on Linux expands market opportunity their ISV solution
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Tech energy firm doubles database workload for less
CHALLENGE
Need for massive scale to monitor oil and gas data in real-time
SOLUTION
Switch to Azure SQL Database to manage the exponential growth of IoT data
Elastic Pools and Azure Redis Cache to minimize database performance demands
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Twice the workload using at approximately 70% cost savings
Memory-optimized tables allow scalability to 10x the size of existing customers
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CMS scales service to thousands of tenants
CHALLENGE
Customer deployments were difficult to scale and required significant management
SOLUTION
Azure SQL Database and Azure Service Bus for customers to self-prevision environments
Azure Storage with Geo-Restore to maximize uptime
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Maximize utility and cost savings by dialing up/down capacity with Elastic Pools
Fully managed service liberates database administrators and resources
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ISV effortlessly adds thousands of DBs/month
CHALLENGE
Required faster software delivery to allow for rapid product updates
SOLUTION
Azure SQL Database to transition from a desktop to SaaS model
Azure cloud platform to reduce infrastructure management and increase scalability
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Enables goal of providing 100% automation of customer business-administration services
Optimized performance and scale by eliminating over- or under-provisioning
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