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Microsoft Azure: Two Case Studies

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Diebold
Diebold is one of the largest global manufacturers of ATMs and provides associated self-service software and services in addition to physical and electronic security solutions. Diebold is based in North Canton, Ohio, employs 16,000 people, and sells its products in more than 90 countries.

Business Needs
Diebold wanted to help customers with their branch transformation efforts by introducing new user interfaces and terminal form factors specifically for the branch environment. Many banks have already moved ATMs into the branch so that bank staff is nearby to help customers and drive adoption, but Diebold knew that it could do more to remove the barriers that kept some consumers from migrating to self-service.

Business Solution
The Diebold research and development organization has long used Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Visual Studio development system, so Azure was a logical extension of the tools and processes that developers already knew. “Our goal in the New Business and Solution Incubation group is to be very agile in bringing new concepts to market,” says Richard Harris, Vice President of New Technology & Incubation at Diebold. “That’s hard to do if you have to set up new infrastructure every time you start a project or create a pilot program. Using an Azure-hosted development model was a great way to speed up the development cycle. There was very little friction in transitioning our staff to Azure, because our Microsoft .NET-trained developers could continue to use Visual Studio.”

Business Benefits
By creating Conductor in Azure, Diebold was able to complete the product within three months and can similarly accelerate future development projects. By hosting Conductor in Azure, Diebold relieves both its own organization and its customers of heavy infrastructure requirements and can more easily market the product globally. Conductor gives financial institutions a way to migrate more consumers to ATMs and transform their branch models.

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AccuWeather
Established in 1962 in State College, Pennsylvania, AccuWeather provides weather forecasts for nearly 3 million locations worldwide through multiple channels including smartphones, websites, and broadcast media.

Business Needs
With an ever-increasing array of mobile devices on the market combined with more people going online globally, the company looked for new ways to satisfy demand for its services.AccuWeather served most of its content from its main data center in Pennsylvania. As digital traffic increased, the company supplied an increasing volume of multimedia content, including forecasts, current conditions, alerts, and images.

Business Solution
AccuWeather considered several cloud-based options, including Amazon Web Services, before choosing a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering on the Azure platform—including Windows Azure Cache Service and Azure Cloud Services—a flexible framework built to handle billions of requests each day. The company believed that Windows Azure would provide a more comprehensive, easily managed set of services. “We’ve used other content distribution networks to cache content,” says Patti. “However, what we gained with the Windows Azure tier is geo-diversified distribution along with business logic.”

Business Benefits
AccuWeather has accelerated times for development and proofs of concept without worrying about provisioning infrastructure. It has also gained on-demand scalability, improved access to real-time weather data, and cut IT costs by up to 40 percent.

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