Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY MICROSOFT AZURE ISV Lumen

Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Lumen. Soft Technologies (Pvt) Ltd WEB SITE: www. lumensoft. biz LOCATION: Lahore, Pakistan ORG SIZE: 50 MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Lumen. Soft Technologies is a software development and technology consultancy serving the retail industry by offering trusted POS solutions to thousands of single and multi- store chains. Trusted by 2500 plus retailers across the globe, our products helps retailers automate and optimize the entire retail experience and maximize return on investment. Go-To-Market Services Candela Leverages Azure to Offer a Scalable and Rugged Solution for Efficient Retail Management “Moving to Cloud does not always mean building solutions from scratch. We used Azure’s strong platformas-service (Paa. S) capability to move Candela RMS back office servers to Azure. This has helped us provide not just a strong infrastructure but also increased storage and security to our customers. ”- Abdul Aziz, CEO, Lumen. Soft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. • SITUATION With the changing environment and evolution of the Cloud, retailers wanted to move their back office servers to the Cloud. There were many expected benefits for this move. One advantage was to get rid of the high capital cost of hardware. Other benefits include the ability to scale-up the hardware as and when needed, and have access to data from anywhere, anytime. • SOLUTION Lumen. Soft responded to the needs of their customers and made Candela RMS compatible with the leading Cloud solution AZURE. Now Candela Backoffice can be configured on Azure Virtual Machines making it easily scalable as when required by the retailers. No upfront capital cost is involved and there is no risk of hardware being obsolete. Moreover, Azure server contains built-in SQL Server database facility which helps boost up performance of the application as both (Candela and its database) exist on the same server. • . BENEFITS Due to its auto scale feature Azure helps Lumen. Soft customers to easily handle load spikes and keep up with growing business needs Azure Keeps the budget in check with low-cost, per-minute billing. We only pay for the compute time we use.