Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Microsoft Azure Enables Banner

Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Microsoft Azure Enables Banner Creator Tool to Change the Online Advertisement Industry “Running the Banner. Flow platform on Azure enables us to develop and manage technology in an agile, reliable way without the fuss of managing the entire tech stack in the traditional way. This enables us to be more core-business focused every day. ” – Magnus Villson, CTO, Banner. Flow MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Banner. Flow WEB SITE: www. bannerflow. com LOCATION: Stockholm, Sweden ORG SIZE: 48 employees MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Banner. Flow enables anyone to create advanced HTML 5 banner ads easily whilst saving up to 95 percent of production time. Build, scale, translate, publish, and optimize banner ads without having to code, and even create rich media banner ads with just the click of a button. • SITUATION Banner. Flow was hosting its platform in an on-premises datacenter on virtual machines. Because of the growth pace of the company, it needed a much more scalable and flexible way of managing technology and it didn’t want to spend time on technical operations tasks. Banner. Flow was looking for a cloud provider and powerful Paa. S capabilities with scalable flexibility to handle its growing business and technical demands. • SOLUTION Banner. Flow utilizes a range of Paa. S and Iaa. S services in Microsoft Azure and they play vital parts in the Saa. S platform Banner. Flow delivers to customers. The front end of the platform is mainly built on Azure Web Apps. The back end analytics services runs on Azure Storage and Blob Storage, Stream Analytics, Event. Hubs, Reddis Cache and Web. Jobs. Banner. Flow’s platform runs in two Azure datacenters with the Traffic Manager in front to distribute incoming traffic. In the highly unlikely scenario of a data center failure Azure routes traffic to another datacenter. • BENEFITS Microsoft Azure offers a broad Paa. S/Iaa. S product portfolio in combination with a lot of interesting new products in the preview mode. Go-To-Market Services Azure cloud technology allows Banner. Flow to have easy-to-set-up integrations with development tools, simplifying the release process.