1. Vast Cloud Compute Power and Storage Enable
Big Data Algorithms to Source Top Job Candidates
MINI-CASE STUDY
“The core of our business lies in extracting relevance from a large pool of complex data. Cloud services with robust storage and scalability is an absolute imperative, and Microsoft Azure has been successful in providing us with what we need.” – Lalit Bhagia, CEO, MyRefers
SITUATION
Faced with vast amounts of job candidate data, companies need help to extract the most relevant applicants. MyRefers designed an algorithm that picks the most suitable candidate from the scattered information on social networks. But to deliver this solution to customers, MyRefers needed a cloud provider that it could entrust with optimizing and securing data.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
MyRefers
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: Delhi, India
ORG SIZE: 21
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
MyRefers is a job referral platform that helps companies crowd-source the best quality candidates using the power of people’s social connections. The platform is built like a job marketplace powered by social referrals and enabled by social big data intelligence. MyRefers has been recognized among the hottest 50 tech startups of India.
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SOLUTION
MyRefers chose Microsoft Azure as its cloud platform, in part because its solution depends on highly customized Windows and Linux environments that are well supported by Azure. The website is built on the .NET framework, and needs a robust solution to support combinations of SQL, graph DB, Hadoop, NLP, and text analytics on a Linux host. The Azure Content Delivery Network provides resilient storage as well as cloud services proven to improve the performance of the website, enhancing its scalability.
BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure allows MyRefers to scale resources as business grows, paying only for what it uses.
With nearly infinite storage, Microsoft Azure enables MyRefers to solve complex big data problems.