Insurance industry technology company, Milliman, is using Windows Azure for its signature MG-ALFA application to run high performance computing scenarios on upwards of 10,000 cores concurrently. The…

Dallas, Texas based IT Consultancy, Pariveda Solutions, is a provider of custom cloud deployments to fortune 500 companies using Microsoft Windows Azure. One of the company's most recent projects has…

Online games in the mobile and social media space, including Facebook, are the primary business for Sneaky Games, from Austin, Texas. The organization is using the Windows Azure platform for its…

Israel based GigaSpaces has created an enterprise Java application platform called Cloudify, that on boards JEE/Spring/big-data applications to Azure without any architectural or code changes.…

Specializing in search technologies, BA Insight has developed on-premise search solutions integrated into FAST and SharePoint 2010. In order to deliver its next generation, scalable, and…

German-based Runtime Software GmbH is a technology consulting firm and early adopter of the Windows Azure platform. Recently the company created a free online browser-based social game, called…

San Diego, California, based energy management software pioneer, Advanced Telemetry, wanted to embrace cloud computing so as to pass more efficient infrastructure cost savings on to its customers and…

Using the cloud, Swedish based Softronic has created an e-government application centered around anti-money laundering called CM1. In addition, the company has established a platform for Open…

InterGrid provides its customers with on demand bursts of power for complex, intensive computing processes using the Windows Azure platform. Primary industries served include biotechnology, financial…

A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Codit is an IT Service company and middleware provider, helping customers integrate line of business applications such as Human Resources and CRM programs for…

MPS Partners, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, implements internet scale applications for their customers on a regular basis. The company has a go-to-market solution that defines a set of services…

Broad Reach Mobility, an enterprise mobility solutions partner, has developed ServiceReach, an innovative mobile field workforce application hosted on the Windows Azure platform. To Broad Reach…

Umbraco provides an open source ASP.NET based Content Management System used today by 75,000 sites. The company was looking for a single cloud platform to meet its needs, ready to go after a single…

Natural User Interfaces (or NUIs) seem to be one of the hottest buzz words in the development world these days. Microsoft is rolling out many technologies that map into NUIs, including Windows 7…

As a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, Siemens has always been synonymous with technological excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality. Today, as…

Urbanization and building construction along with overhaul and modernization of the city’s zoning code have converged with the obsolescence of the existing building, planning and zoning business…

The APIs in WPF4 plus the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch make building common touch scenarios easy. However, implementing many of the same touch scenarios using WPF3.5SP1 or Silverlight 3/4…

The Miami311 System is a Windows Azure/Silverlight-based solution which enables City of Miami citizens report and track issues reported to city management. The system uses Bing Maps to plot the…

Microsoft Surface is a prime example of how natural user interfaces can change the way we interact with computers. As designers and developers, one challenge with creating natural user interfaces…

Here’s an interview with our government customer City of Lakewood, CO about couple of their Line-of-Business applications. One of them is “Building Permit System” leveraging WPF (Windows…

Working with their huge data set of up to 2000 nodes, Persistent Systems is pushing the computation up to the cloud when there is a spike or a high need. This particular use case is beneficial…

Mark Richards, VP Business Development and R&D. Microsoft Partner OriginDigital is a video applications service provider that uses Azure for dynamically scaling video transcoding, allowing them…

Siemens, a Microsoft Partner, is using Azure for a remote service use case. By using Azure, Siemens doesn’t need to create a new IT department to manage clusters all over the world: Azure spins up…

Kelley Blue Book uses Windows Azure for a cloud-bursting scenario, eliminating their need for a backup data center in times of high traffic. This has saved them $100,000 per year. John Parker,…

Virtual Earth 3D has many applications, but until recently has only been practical on the web with a JavaScript interface. WPF applications could not use the full potential of Virtual Earth 3D…

SnagL, from Berico Tailored Systems, is a thin client collaborative link analysis tool, which can be integrated with any existing tool or data repository. Advanced analytics, like clustering and …

Deepak Srinivasan, Director of Systems Engineering, and Paul Sykes, Development Manager (both from Esurance) join Raj Ramabadran to talk about the new Esurance Mobile Services offering. In this video,…

Donald Trump recently praised Metratech’s business model embraced by their customer, ACN, who appeared on the Celebrity Apprentice. Metratech’s own David Blair, Director of Product…

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys plc, is the market leader in real-time operations management software. Wonderware solutions enable companies to synchronize their production and industrial…

Before a plane flies for the first time, in the sky, it has flown many thousands of virtual miles in distributed clusters of computation cells, calculating non-linear differential equations of fluid…

Northrop Grumman partnered with the Microsoft Technology Center and the Microsoft US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism team to build a Proof Of Concept (POC) application that would…

Infosys Technologies Limited has created a data integration hub which is built on top of Azure platform. Principal Architect of Infosys, Jitendra Pal Thethi, demonstrates how the hosting platform …

InnerWorkings is an independent software company whose mission is to help developers learn to write better code faster on the .NET framework. Developers learn by solving real coding challenges and…

Rockwell Automation helps manufacturers succeed and grow with industrial automation control and information solutions. From stand-alone, industrial components to enterprise-wide integrated systems,…

PreEmptive Solutions produces the Dotfuscator and DashO instrumentation and obfuscation product families and the Runtime Intelligence application analytics service. With more than 3,000 corporate…

The week of PDC, Channel 9 was busy making lots of connections with ISVs. Here’s a great interview with Mehul Shah, the Senior Solutions Architect for Blue Star Infotech (BSI). BSI specializes in…

e-conomic is Danish ISV developing an ERP SaaS solution using ASP and ASP.NET. In this Inside out cast, Senior Developer Ole Hyldahl Hansen takes us around common challenges of integrating ASP and…

Composite is a Danish ISV who has developed a CMS entirely on .NET 3.5. Composite positions their CMS as being developed for end users with a marketing background, enabling those to efficiently run…

Planet Technologies, an international IT consulting and services company, has been awarded the Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year for 2008, the fourth straight year they have received this. …

CoroWare Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of CoroWare, Inc. (CROE.OB), is a systems and mobile robotics integrator. They’ve recently been awarded Microsoft Certified Gold Partner status. …

ESRI, a Global ISV partner, is pushing the envelope on technology adoption and environmental issues. In this interview, I talk with Senior Product Managers Rob Elkins and John Baleja about…

SQLSoft+ is all about training for technologies Microsoft is releasing to the world. They are a Microsoft Certified Partner, and thrive by putting themselves in front of the Microsoft train. …

Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor.…

We recently sat down with Peter Rieks, who is the product manager for Autodesk’s Geospatial products. Autodesk is a global ISV known for design technology, allowing their customers to visualize,…

When FullArmor took up residence in the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center, their relationship with Microsoft rose to a whole new level. This is a candid interview with FullArmor CTO and founding…

I caught up with Gabriel Torok, President of PreEmptive Software (you all know DotFuscator, right? That's PreEmptive's baby...) at TechEd 2007 (Yeah, this is coming to you late, but the video was…

While in Copenhagen, Denmark recently I had the pleasure to meet and chat with Niels Virring Martensen and Per Rasmussen of Cepa Mobility, a small company dedicated to making mobile products…

While in Copenhagen, Denmark recently I had the pleasure to meet and chat with Niels Virring Martensen and Per Rasmussen of Cepa Mobility, a small company dedicated to making mobile products for…

Tobii Technology is an incredibly innovative company. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, this small ISV makes eye tracking hardware and software that enables people with disabilities to interact…

The Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen (MDCC) recently held it's second TechFest. Each year (this is year two of TechcFest) the good folks at MDCC put on a show where local (Denmark…

The Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen (MDCC) recently held it's second TechFest. Each year (this is year two of TechcFest) the good folks at MDCC put on a show where local (Denmark…

The Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen (MDCC) recently held it's second TechFest. Each year (this is year two of TechcFest) the good folks at MDCC put on a show where local (Denmark…

The Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen (MDCC) recently held it's second TechFest. Each year (this is year two of TechcFest) the good folks at MDCC put on a show where local (Denmark and…

Scott Carney, Director of Development for Siemens Medical has a balancing act in developing workflow applications for hospitals; data and processes are aggregated from different platform applications…

Epicor has been a long time partner of Microsoft, and with multiple product lines distributed across industries has garnered a wealth of experience in delivering joint solutions with Microsoft…

Casey Rayl and Scott McAndrew were in town recently (meaning Redmond, Washington, USA). They work for a company called Terralever and have produced a really cool interactive game using…

The guys at Cakewalk are passionate about music and providing the technology that enables audio enthusiasts & professionals to create great music. Noel Borthwick, Cakewalk CTO and Carl Jacobson,…

Global carbon regulation is arguably the largest risk and opportunity most corporations will face in the beginning of the 21st century. It has been estimated that turnover in the global carbon…

Global carbon regulation is arguably the largest risk and opportunity most corporations will face in the beginning of the 21st century. It has been estimated that turnover in the global carbon…

Global carbon regulation is arguably the largest risk and opportunity most corporations will face in the beginning of the 21st century. It has been estimated that turnover in the global carbon…

Global carbon regulation is arguably the largest risk and opportunity most corporations will face in the beginning of the 21st century. It has been estimated that turnover in the global carbon…

Here, we talk to Dan Johansson, CIO of the Swedish company Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS). We have a candid conversation about the problems his company solves and the technologies they use.…