Windows Azure Customer Solution Case Study Manufacturer Uses Cloud Computing to Solve Customers’ Needs, Grow Business “With Windows Azure, we are seeing the power of the Overview Country or Region: United States cloud in terms of enhancing our product and building Industry: Manufacturing—Facility our market share. It’s going to be the backbone of support services everything we do with InteLite going forward.” Customer Profile Based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Orion Jason Young, Chief Technology Officer, Orion Energy Systems Energy Systems designs, manufactures, Customers of Orion Energy Systems use InteLite® and installs energy management systems, including energy-efficient lighting. It monitoring and control software appliances to help control employs 260 people. lighting costs at their facilities. Large customers asked for a way Business Situation to compare energy consumption across sites so that they could Orion needed to find a cost-effective, improve facilities that aren’t performing well and save money. scalable alternative to hosting its customers’ aggregate energy Orion met this need by migrating its InteLite application and consumption data on-premises or at a customers’ data to the Windows Azure platform, and by taking traditional third-party hoster. advantage of Microsoft SQL Azure relational data storage Solution services. Now customers’ InteLite appliances transmit energy Orion migrated its InteLite® software and its customers’ energy data to the consumption data to a low-cost, scalable, cloud-based database Windows Azure cloud-computing hosted at Microsoft data centers. Customers access and analyze platform, also taking advantage of Microsoft SQL Azure data storage. their aggregate data by using a dashboard that Orion added to InteLite. With new insight into their facilities’ performance, many Benefits A scalable platform for innovation customers are expected to recoup their investment in InteLite in Lower IT costs, predictable revenue as little as one month. Avoids U.S.$57,000 in annual labor costs Better customer service, improved data security
Windows Azure Customer Solution Case Study Manufacturer Uses Cloud Computing to Solve Customers’ Needs, Grow Business Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Manufacturing—Facility support services Customer Profile Based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Orion Energy Systems designs, manufactures, and installs energy management systems, including energy-efficient lighting. It employs 260 people. Business Situation Orion needed to find a cost-effective, scalable alternative to hosting its customers’ aggregate energy consumption data on-premises or at a traditional third-party hoster. Solution Orion migrated its InteLite® software and its customers’ energy data to the Windows Azure cloud-computing platform, also taking advantage of Microsoft SQL Azure data storage. Benefits A scalable platform for innovation Lower IT costs, predictable revenue Avoids U.S.$57,000 in annual labor costs Better customer service, improved data security “With Windows Azure, we are seeing the power of the cloud in terms of enhancing our product and building our market share. It’s going to be the backbone of everything we do with InteLite going forward.” Jason Young, Chief Technology Officer, Orion Energy Systems Customers of Orion Energy Systems use InteLite® and control software appliances to help control lighting costs at their facilities. Large customers asked for a way to compare energy consumption across sites so that they could improve facilities that aren’t performing well and save money. Orion met this need by migrating its InteLite application and customers’ data to the Windows Azure platform, and by taking advantage of Microsoft SQL Azure relational data storage services. Now customers’ InteLite appliances transmit energy consumption data to a low-cost, scalable, cloud-based database hosted at Microsoft data centers. Customers access and analyze their aggregate data by using a dashboard that Orion added to InteLite. With new insight into their facilities’ performance, many customers are expected to recoup their investment in InteLite in as little as one month. monitoring
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