model based on usage. Customers pay only out support for disaster recovery scenarios for the number of fields, wells, or devices that include failover to other data centers for which data collection, storage, and in Europe and Asia. reporting activity are provided. Fielding Systems can offer this pricing model Looking ahead, Shawn Cutter is excited because it is able to control those same about upside potential of an international costs on the back end. customer base. “While we are focused on the US market at this time, we get calls Maintains Critical Application Functions from companies located throughout the For Fielding Systems, maintaining world. Windows Azure will give us the application functionality was a necessity. ability to tap those markets as the company Centralized reports and automated grows and expands into other regions. workflows help make the solution what it is, Geo-replication and global scalability and none of those features could be left allows Fielding Systems to offer a platform behind. Having a single inventory of reports that inherently supports something that a is part of a larger strategy that lets the hosted system can’t natively support. By company grow its customer base with few building a platform on Azure, we get this disruptions and minimal costs. capability without further investment. “ Builds on Experience Windows Azure Having an equal footing in both technology and the oil and gas industry has allowed With Windows Azure, you can quickly build, the company to draw from both deploy, and manage applications across a foundations. Knowing how to use specific global network of Microsoft-managed data features to best advantage—such as which centers. You can build applications using rendering formats work best on smaller any operating system, language, or tool. devices, or how to optimize queries for fast performance—is almost as important as For more information, please visit . knowing what a report should contain and <<< how information should be visualized. The ability to refine and iterate over the reports is simplified on Windows Azure because everything is stored in one central location. Reduces Downtime by 50 Percent The company wanted to offload hosting, but not at the expense of reliability. Since the migration, reliability has actually improved, cutting downtime by half in the first year. Boosts Availability Worldwide Having data centers around the world has opened up new ways to strengthen the business. The company is currently building
model based on usage. Customers pay only for the number of fields, wells, or devices for which data collection, storage, and reporting activity are provided. Fielding Systems can offer this pricing model because it is able to control those same costs on the back end. Maintains Critical Application Functions For Fielding Systems, maintaining application functionality was a necessity. Centralized reports and automated workflows help make the solution what it is, and none of those features could be left behind. Having a single inventory of reports is part of a larger strategy that lets the company grow its customer base with few disruptions and minimal costs. Builds on Experience Having an equal footing in both technology and the oil and gas industry has allowed the company to draw from both foundations. Knowing how to use specific features to best advantage—such as which rendering formats work best on smaller devices, or how to optimize queries for fast performance—is almost as important as knowing what a report should contain and how information should be visualized. The ability to refine and iterate over the reports is simplified on Windows Azure because everything is stored in one central location. Reduces Downtime by 50 Percent The company wanted to offload hosting, but not at the expense of reliability. Since the migration, reliability has actually improved, cutting downtime by half in the first year. Boosts Availability Worldwide Having data centers around the world has opened up new ways to strengthen the business. The company is currently building out support for disaster recovery scenarios that include failover to other data centers in Europe and Asia. Looking ahead, Shawn Cutter is excited about upside potential of an international customer base. “While we are focused on the US market at this time, we get calls from companies located throughout the world. Windows Azure will give us the ability to tap those markets as the company grows and expands into other regions. Geo-replication and global scalability allows Fielding Systems to offer a platform that inherently supports something that a hosted system can’t natively support. By building a platform on Azure, we get this capability without further investment. “ Windows Azure With Windows Azure, you can quickly build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. You can build applications using any operating system, language, or tool. For more information, please visit . <<<
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