Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Get Smart and Simple

Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Get Smart and Simple Hotel Software Solutions Powered by the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform “Using Microsoft Azure to host Smart. HOTEL’s applications enabled us to help even more hoteliers without worrying about the underlying technical infrastructure. The tools provided by Azure give us insight and provide input for strategic decisions. ” – Frank Zimmermann, CTO, Smart. HOTEL MICROSOFT AZURE PARTNER: Smart. HOTEL WEB SITE: www. smarthotel. nl LOCATION: Reeuwijk, the Netherlands ORG SIZE: 25 employees MICROSOFT AZURE PARTNER PROFILE: Helping hotels focus on their guests, with the benefits of revenue increase, Smart. HOTEL believes in a highly connected world of integrated technologies combined with tailored service. By creating smart and simple software, its team of hospitality professionals and developers is solving the distribution challenges of more than 2, 000 hotel partners. Go-To-Market Services • SITUATION In the past, Smart. HOTEL hosted applications and services in on-premises datacenters. The problem with such infrastructures is that it is difficult and expensive to scale and be highly available. In most cases, it was also a timeconsuming and labor-intensive process for Smart. HOTEL. As a result of its rapidly growing user base and regulations relating to security, the company was quickly confronted with the challenge of being both scalable and secure. • SOLUTION Smart. HOTEL chose Microsoft Azure, converting all applications and processes running on virtual machines to processes that could be hosted in the cloud. Azure SQL Databases give Smart. HOTEL a fully redundant system, the ability to quickly recover from outages by failing over to other nodes, and flexible backup and performance options. Azure Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, and firewalls segment traffic to Smart. HOTEL's back-end services in a logical way, and Azure Key Vault enhances security. • BENEFITS Microsoft Azure provides greater insights into what is happening to Smart. HOTEL’s services and how they are being used (telemetry data). Using Azure gives Smart. HOTEL more time to focus on creating value for its clients instead of being busy maintaining and extending infrastructure. Replace with Application Image