Windows Azure Customer Solution Case Study Service Provider Holds the Line on Costs and Need logo Expands Its Business with the Cloud “At Fielding Systems, everything we do is hosted on Overview Country or Region: United States Windows Azure—SQL Database, SQL Reporting, Industry: Oil and Gas Compute Instances, Service Bus, AppFabric—almost Customer Profile anything Windows Azure offers we use somewhere in Fielding Systems provides innovative, cloud-based software solutions for our product offering.” midstream and upstream companies in the oil and gas industry. Based in Tampa, Shawn Cutter, CEO, Fielding Systems Florida, the company has 10 employees. When your job requires miles of driving over back roads to check on oil wells too numerous to count, getting an alert on Business Situation At Fielding Systems, business was your mobile phone directing you to specific outages or hotspots booming, but so were the demands of is technology at its best. Fielding Systems, which provides field running an in-house data center. Hosting the service applications internally was operations software to the oil and gas industry, chose to run all both costly and time-consuming. of its manual and remote field data collection and data analysis Solution services on Windows Azure. By moving to Windows Azure, The company migrated the product suite Fielding Systems can refocus and expand its business at a lower to Windows Azure. This helped the company focus on its core business while cost, while retaining all of the unique features of the original laying the groundwork for further applications. expansion into new markets. Benefits Achieves cost-effective scalability Maintains application critical functions Builds on experience Reduces downtime by 50 percent Boosts availability worldwide
Windows Azure Customer Solution Case Study Need logo Service Provider Holds the Line on Costs and Expands Its Business with the Cloud Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Oil and Gas Customer Profile Fielding Systems provides innovative, cloud-based software solutions for midstream and upstream companies in the oil and gas industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, the company has 10 employees. Business Situation At Fielding Systems, business was booming, but so were the demands of running an in-house data center. Hosting the service applications internally was both costly and time-consuming. Solution The company migrated the product suite to Windows Azure. This helped the company focus on its core business while laying the groundwork for further expansion into new markets. Benefits Achieves cost-effective scalability Maintains application critical functions Builds on experience Reduces downtime by 50 percent Boosts availability worldwide “At Fielding Systems, everything we do is hosted on Windows Azure—SQL Database, SQL Reporting, Compute Instances, Service Bus, AppFabric—almost anything Windows Azure offers we use somewhere in our product offering.” Shawn Cutter, CEO, Fielding Systems When your job requires miles of driving over back roads to check on oil wells too numerous to count, getting an alert on your mobile phone directing you to specific outages or hotspots is technology at its best. Fielding Systems, which provides field operations software to the oil and gas industry, chose to run all of its manual and remote field data collection and data analysis services on Windows Azure. By moving to Windows Azure, Fielding Systems can refocus and expand its business at a lower cost, while retaining all of the unique features of the original applications.
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