Transcript mini-case study

MINI-CASE STUDY
Cloud Platform Brings Brands and Consumers
Together via a Secure, Scalable, Mobile Solution
“Microsoft Azure allowed us to build a scalable, secure platform with high performance and
flexibility. During our creation and testing phases, we can respond quickly to changes in our
market’s needs.” – Luca Cardella, Co-Founder, Pingvalue
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
Pingvalue
WEB SITE: www.pingvalue.com
LOCATION: Luxembourg, Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg
ORG SIZE: 20
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
Pingvalue is a platform that allows people
to receive recommendations, share their
knowledge by increasing their influential
power, and get rewarded for promotional
efforts. It provides businesses and brands
with the opportunity to attract and retain
customers, getting precious insights and
increasing sales conversion through a
gamification process.
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 SITUATION
Local and social interactions are growing fast through different devices. While brands and local
businesses want to improve conversation models with customers, millions of users keep creating
content fast. Pingvalue saw an opportunity to create a solution that could measure interactions and
provide real-time information to both users and businesses.
 SOLUTION
Pingvalue chose Microsoft Azure to deliver its platform for consumers
and brands. By taking advantage of Microsoft Azure’s flexibility in
different services, Pingvalue makes secure and real-time interactions
possible among millions of users, businesses, and brands on a global
scale. Pingvalue uses Microsoft Azure Table storage for user data and
Blob storage for images. Other features of Microsoft Azure used by
Pingvalue include: web roles, worker roles, virtual machines, Azure SQL
Database, HDInsight, Azure Service Bus, and Notification Hubs.
 BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure offers computing resources that eliminate a company’s
need to spend money on infrastructure.
The flexible environment of Microsoft Azure allows Pingvalue to build a
reliable platform and to quickly scale to millions of users.