EastPoint has been designing, developing and deploying business solutions that leverage Azure for many years, since the very beginning in fact; over ten years ago. Microsoft Azure is a superb platform constantly evolving and improving. We enjoy working with it, creating solutions for our clients that deliver real value in whatever guise. Microsoft’s development of these in tandem, enables our clients and us to develop with already established technologies that were designed to be compatible with each other. This frees our developers up to create and solve our client’s issues, or simply to develop and integrate new systems seamlessly. Azure makes it easier for us to improve our clients profitability and performance, which is all you can ask. We get you there, you get the benefit, and projects no longer have to drain the life out of people.  

Microsoft Azure has put an end to siloed data, redefining boundaries and ultimately destroying them. Total interconnectedness allowing us as creators and innovators to integrate your data throughout your business, with the opportunities that gives you. Build, deploy and manage applications with Azure’s state of the art virtualisation, giving you the power to run the world. 

So, Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud-based application platform. It supports the deployment of applications in the Cloud, or the development of hybrid applications where on-premise or mobile applications can leverage the features of Windows Azure such as storage, identity and authentication, media services, database and reporting. Or at least that is what we used to do, now we have IoT, and the additional layers of AI and Machine Learning, diffusing and infusing the data, into educated improving automations of process and analytics. Learning and teaching our businesses, our clients and us, how to achieve better results. EastPoint listens to the you the client, your data and your business, Azure makes that easier for all of us. 

With the advent of IoT, AI and Machine Learning we are now onto a new stage, but it would be a mistake to attribute any sense of end game, this is only the beginning. At EastPoint we are thinking and talking about something beyond that. We no longer live in a world of static reports on a monthly basis, we need access to realtime data, but again that in and of itself is no longer enough. We need to be embedding AI and Machine Learning into the process, systems and education, to take automations and efficiencies to the next level, truly releasing the power of people’s data. Data remains the king, and we love working with it.  

The main advantages of Windows Azure are that it provides great scalability and resilience with a pay-as-you-go model.

Companies developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering can have it up and running on a reliable and scalable platform quickly and with minimal up-front costs and fuss. Our clients are now availing of the erosion of previously rock solid tenets of data, silos, lack of speed, ageing hardware, difficulties with compatability. Gone. Now we can see, feel and learn from our clients’ data, and all the benefits and learnings therein, and so can they.  

Companies that temporarily need an application or infrastructure can use Azure and then turn it off when finished.

Azure is the de facto standard for deploying .NET applications on the Cloud.

ISO certified, no more racing and chasing around, retrospectively patching up, security patches, maintenance patches, you remember. Now Microsoft looks after all that for us. Evergreen.

The beauty, the majesty of Azure in all its splendour (see below).