ScienceSoft hosts Microsoft Azure Catch-up
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On 15 January 2015 the company ScienceSoft hosted Microsoft Azure Catch-up. The invited speaker Mr. Francois Boucher, Technical Team Lead from the Canadian company Lixar IT offered the participants an insight into the today’s Azure and all that it has in stock for software engineers.
Over 120 participants visited the event. Besides Microsoft-oriented software engineers the event topics attracted alternative stacks developers, QA engineers and other IT professions.
In the opening speech Maxim Saplin (head of Microsoft development at ScienceSoft) shared achievements and highlighted ScienceSoft expertise with Microsoft Cloud. Company’s portfolio features big experience of implementing cloud solution on the Azure platform. One of the brightest examples is the migration of accounting software from the On-Premise/Desktop delivery model to the cloud SaaS/Web model - watch the demo.
Shortly Francois took the floor and started an engaging 2h seminar. Though we planned to have it shorter people were interested in seeing more hands-on/on-screen demos. Frank finished his part with an extra sample of creating a mobile application using Visual Studio Online and leveraging Azure back-end. The following topical questions and answers were touched upon:
- Azure overview: insights, services, scenarios
- Amazon, Google, Microsoft clouds
- Real world cases and figures
- 3 hands-on demos
- VMs, Web Sites, Web Roles
- Alternative (non .NET) stack
- Visual Studio Online
- Mobile services
We are happy to share with you the key notes of the presentation, available here and invite you to join the discussion about Microsoft Azure trends on LinkedIn and Facebook.
About the speaker – Francois Boucher
Francois Boucher is the Technical Team Lead at Lixar IT, Canada. The company’s expertise lies in the areas of Mobile Connected Transportation in Auto, Air and Telco. Lixar IT is dedicated to delivering innovation in mobility, leveraging the cloud, providing next generation design (user experience) and comprehensive data analytics to our customers through seamless end-to-end product experiences and services. With 14 years in software development, Francois Boucher has over two years’ experience as Virtual Technology Solution Professional (Azure) while working for Microsoft.
About the event organizer – ScienceSoft
ScienceSoft is an established IT services provider with operations in Europe and South-Eastern Asia. The company’s highlights include 450 experienced professionals, ISO 9001 compliant processes and over 25 years of IT business experience. ScienceSoft is a partner of IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.
The offerings of the company embrace custom software development of enterprise and consumer IT systems and applications, IT outsourcing; IT security, business intelligence and ITSM solutions and services. The main technology emphasis of ScienceSoft is on the areas of mobility, Microsoft, Java as well as open source web technologies. ScienceSoft also provides an extensive range of quality assurance services as well as 24x7 support for IT infrastructure and applications.
The global client base of ScienceSоft exceeds two hundred companies and is spread across 25 countries. ScienceSoft's size and flexibility enables it to successfully work with giants such as IBM, Tieto, PerkinElmer and Leo Burnett as well as with SMEs and start-ups such as Viber. The company possesses strong knowledge of vertical domains including banking and finance, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail and transportation. ScienceSoft holds a number of awards for business excellence, including a national 2014 Fastest-growing company award by Ernst & Young (EY).
Background
The cloud ecosystem was a real game changer when it came to the scene a couple of years ago and since then it has gone a long way. Even the architectures of such familiar platforms like Amazon and Google are constantly evolving while Azure has changed almost beyond recognition considering the pace of new implementations. Having been a member of Microsoft PartnerNetwork since 2009 and possessing a number of Silver Competences, ScienceSoft is dedicated to staying up to date with the latest Microsoft technologies and contributing to the growing IT community in the region. To jointly work on a reliable compass to navigate among numerous increments and tons of options brought with Azure getting mature and robust, ScienceSoft together with the experts from Lixar IT came up with the idea of the Microsoft Azure Catch-up.