1. Azure-Powered Shipping Solution Provides Data Availability, Reduced Costs, and Minimized Effort
“Azure provides us with an integrated development environment. We can be sure that the software works the same way during development as it will in production, and we don’t have to manage different customer environments.” – Alexander Buchmann, CEO, Hanseaticsoft
SITUATION
To tap the full potential of businesses, information has to be analyzed in real time and problems have to be identified before they appear. Hanseaticsoft wanted to develop innovative software applications to help its shipping industry customers to optimize their processes and increase performance. It sought a reliable, scalable, and cost- effective cloud solution so that it could deliver its mobile shipping and data solutions around the globe.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
Hanseaticsoft
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: Hamburg, Germany
ORG SIZE: More than 30 employees
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
Hanseaticsoft, founded in 2009, offers software solutions that address a wide range of shipping processes and operations. Its offerings include everything from capturing observations on board to purchasing, and to all aspects of crew assembly, from hiring to payroll through to the handling of ship-related service requests. Hanseaticsoft’s Cloud Fleet Manager combines those solutions into a single cloud-based platform.
SOLUTION
Using Microsoft Azure, Hanseaticsoft is able to guarantee its worldwide customers smooth collaboration and high-availability access to its data platform, Cloud Fleet Manager. Hanseaticsoft uses many features of Azure to power its suite of applications that allow shipping industry managers and employees to save time, save costs, and meet their steadily growing need for real-time access to data on the go. Azure Virtual Machines for both web roles and worker roles, Azure Blob Storage and Azure Table Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Service Bus, and message queues are among the Azure features Hanseaticsoft uses to satisfy its customers' needs.
BENEFITS
The inherent reliability and robustness of Azure means that Hanseaticsoft is able to reduce its efforts while decreasing its infrastructure costs.
Thanks to the worldwide network of Microsoft datacenters, Azure enables Hanseaticsoft customers to be connected in real time on a global scale.