Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Intelligent Migration Solution Simplifies

Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Intelligent Migration Solution Simplifies, Scales Products While Saving Cloud Computing Costs “After assessing a variety of cloud-based computing platforms, we were blown away by the sheer simplicity, and low costs of integrating, deploying, and scaling our products on Microsoft Azure. ” – Kirill Kashigin, CTO, File. Facets MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: File. Facets WEB SITE: www. filefacets. com LOCATION: Kanata, Ontario, Canada ORG SIZE: 15 employees MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: File. Facets is a cloud-based, intelligent migration solution for unstructured content including automated ROT processing, semantic indexing and clustering and advanced metadata mining and attribution. “Lift-and-shift tools" offer zero benefits to the customer environments. File. Facets delivers sophisticated content analysis to create a highly automated and scalable Saa. S-based solution. • SITUATION File. Facets is a multi-tenant, database-per-tenant cloud application. The company had been constantly overprovisioning and overpaying for its cloud services. It was also cumbersome to implement and expensive to maintain common design patterns. Virtual machines needed to be provisioned on demand for integration testing. The company needed a better alternative to address these problems. • SOLUTION Microsoft Azure SQL database elastic pools helped File. Facets scale its application storage and implement database sharing. In a few clicks, the Azure App Service allowed File. Facets to set up different deployment slots with continuous integration from the TFS code repository. The company effortlessly deployed and managed the Azure API using Swagger integration and automated client code generation. This setup let the company provision and de-provision testing environments on demand, which simplified integration testing and reduced costs. • BENEFITS Microsoft Azure shortened File. Facet’s software release life cycle while keeping infrastructure costs low. Go-To-Market Services Microsoft Azure simplified the management of development and testing environments.