1. Cloud Platform Helps to Empower Citizens and Keep Costs in Check for Local Governments
MINI-CASE STUDY
“By moving Love Clean Streets to the Microsoft Azure platform, we made an immediate 28% saving on hosting and solution management costs.” – Ian Blackburn, CEO & Founder, bbits
SITUATION
Local governments are seeking ways to empower citizens to take an active role in the community, but need a simple-to-use and cost-effective solution. With minimizing administrative costs in mind, bbits developed Love Clean Streets as a cloud-based service, and sought a platform that could offer robust scalability.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
Blackburn IT Services (bbits)
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LOCATION: United Kingdom
ORG SIZE: 10
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
bbits builds brilliant and bespoke mobile and web solutions that are engaging and goal-oriented. Love Clean Streets is an implementation of its Mediaklik solution, enabling accurate and robust reporting of categorised data with images and video support, automatic location detection, and secure data collection and reporting in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
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SOLUTION
bbits chose to run Love Clean Streets on the Microsoft Azure platform. The application is hosted in Microsoft data centres, and is guaranteed 99.9 per cent uptime to bbits customers. Citizens can download the Love Clean Streets application onto their Windows Phones or access their local authority sites via computer. Love Clean Streets leverages numerous Microsoft Azure features, including: Service Bus, table storage, Blob storage, queues, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure Cache, IaaS, virtual machines, virtual networks, VPN, Cloud Services, and Azure Websites.
BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure can help bbits customers control their costs, in one government’s case saving £20,000.
Microsoft Azure delivered an immediate return on investment, saving bbits 28% on hosting and solution management costs.