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July 30, 2010 1:53 PM EDT
Microsoft hooked in three biggies Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels and the University of Georgia among its growing list of corporates that have embraced its cloud computing solutions.
The announcement came at the recently concluded annual Financial Analyst Meeting. Microsoft reported that Hyatt bought its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) for 17,000 of its information workers and 40,000 non-desk associates.
Dow Chemicals decided to move its entire workforce to BPOS as cloud solution fits its expansive operations allowing its workforce access to the BPOS from any location.
While 85,000 students, faculty and staff at the University of Georgia will access Live@Edu over the cloud solution extended by Microsoft.
The three form the part of a customer list that includes 13 of the top 20 telecom firms, 15 of the top 20 global banks and 16 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies. Window Azure currently has a list of around 10,000 companies.
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Cloud solutions as a strategy fits the bill for multiple organizations as it allows them to choose enterprise services most pertinent to their requirements without having to invest in expensive infrastructure.
It allows customization rather than a broad service deployment thus allowing businesses to choose which applications to buy and who uses the services - a flexibility that costly ERP solutions and site-based server solutions do not allow.
This is besides the new business models and avenues that cloud-based solutions are opening for companies, like the cloud-based music downloads available for smartphones.
Microsoft's show of these prized trophies follows its competitor Google's much touted deployment of a cloud-based service for L.A. municipal employees. The project hit a snag as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) raised security concerns regarding the Google system.
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