Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Powerful Microsoft Azure Platform

Microsoft Azure CASE STUDY Powerful Microsoft Azure Platform Helps Make Mobile Forms and Reporting Solution Possible “With Microsoft Azure it is very easy to scale up our infrastructure on demand, saving us time and reducing costs. ” – Jonathan Stevens, VP Engineering and co-founder, Go. Formz • SITUATION MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Go. Formz WEB SITE: www. goformz. com LOCATION: San Diego, CA, USA ORG SIZE: 30 MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Go. Formz provides a mobile forms solution that lets users capture data electronically. It makes forms “smart” by automating calculations, prefilling form data sources, capturing GPS information and more. Forms and data are stored in Go. Formz’s cloud-based platform and can be accessed from anywhere. Its advanced reporting and analytics tools let users monitor operations and analyze their business in real time. Go-To-Market Services When the Go. Formz team began building the core of its mobile forms product in 2008, all of its server infrastructure had to be managed internally. Go. Formz needed to focus on the development of its product, but it was spending time maintaining servers instead of creating new features. Scaling the databases in its multi-tenant product was of particular concern. Go. Formz needed a solution that would allow it to concentrate on development. • SOLUTION Go. Formz chose Microsoft Azure because it allowed Go. Formz to delegate a large portion of its infrastructure maintenance. The managed Azure SQL databases were the perfect solution for its multi-tenancy needs. Azure was also the only platform that supported. NET applications without the hassle of maintaining VMs. The addition of Web Apps to Azure has made auto-scaling easy and affordable. In addition to the Azure SQL and Web Apps, Go. Formz also utilizes Service Bus, Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, Scheduler, Application Insights, and other key Azure features. • BENEFITS Using Azure means Go. Formz no longer has to manage system updates, physical security, installation, etc. , on its web and database servers. Azure makes it a relatively painless process to scale up infrastructure on demand, allowing Go. Formz to save greatly on overhead costs.