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WITH MORE FREQUENT
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services it consumes. “Without Azure, it
might have cost us 10 times more to build
an environment that could cope with the
future we expect,” said Nicolas Gaussel.
The company also uses tools such as
Azure Log Analytics, Azure Backup and
Azure Automation to streamline critical IT
management functions.
Metori saved money on deploying Epsilon
and it can also update and enhance the
service faster, easier and at a lower cost. “We
can scale the Azure service seamlessly,” said
Nicolas Gaussel. “And with more frequent
releases and updates, we can maintain a
reputation for cutting-edge technology.”
Today Metori manages €350 million
in assets, trades €30 billion a year and
executes transactions worth €150 million
a day. To meet peaks and troughs in fund
activity, Metori can make the most of Azure
compute and storage resources. It can scale
across geographies to connect seamlessly
– and selectively – with business teams
in China, research partners in France, or
important customers around the world, while
safeguarding sensitive data. This is possible
by giving different kinds of accesses to
different people.
“With Azure and Office 365, we can give
our teams, partners and customers network
access, but be selective,” said Philippe
Carpentier. “We’ve found a good balance
between security and openness.”
Additionally, Azure Security Center simplifies
security management and Azure VPN
Gateway enables users to connect more
securely from anywhere.
According to Nicolas Gaussel and Philippe
Carpentier, the Metori team always wanted
to start from a central, shared environment,
so they could deliver seamless service and
high value for their investors. “Choosing
Azure allowed us to deploy a vision of
managing data for collaboration, reporting,
customer management, or for whatever
we need,” added Gaussel. “I’m not sure it
would have been possible with another kind
of infrastructure.”
Similarly, French cloud service provider
ForePaaS sought to improve its data
management services and efficiency of its
cloud offering to customers, allowing it to
innovate rapidly. ForePaaS simplifies data
management and analysis by providing
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Customers visit
a web portal to select their data sources,
customise a prebuilt template for their
industry and choose the cloud where they’ll
store and process their data.
“15 minutes later they’re gaining insights
about their business and customers,” said
ForePaaS Marketing Director, Vincent Michel.
Paul Sinaï, CEO and CTO of ForePaaS
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A major retailer uses ForePaaS to identify
different types of customers by analysing
hundreds of millions of sales receipts.
A consumer goods company monitors
reactions to its 10,000 digital marketing
assets on social media. A European cinema
group built a dashboard that shows real-time
ticket sales by movie, theatre, time of day
and more. Revealing the insights hidden
in Big Data can take a huge amount
of effort. Companies first need to buy
and deploy servers and storage, develop
sophisticated software and connect
to sources as diverse as Oracle, SAP,
Salesforce, Facebook and Twitter. “The
challenge of Big Data analytics is not
just the volume, but also the variety of
sources and the speed at which they flow
into the data centre,” said Paul Sinaï, CEO
and CTO of ForePaaS.
Challenge: easier development,
faster performance
ForePaaS launched its cloud service in
April 2015. Right away, demand kept
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