The solution
NIA's CIO, Zara, with the help of the business intelligence team, agreed to use Microsoft Azure as the cloud provider to build the new solution. They summarized their reasoning as follows.
Why Azure for NIA?
- NIA is already using Microsoft technologies such as Windows 10, Office 365, and other tools. Azure has better native integration with all these services than any other cloud provider. Thus, it makes perfect sense to use Azure. Furthermore, NIA is keen to take advantage of the Open Data Initiative (ODI), which enables organizations to deliver exceptional business insights by combining behavioral, transactional, financial, and operational data in a single data store. The initiative simplifies the creation of common data models across the organization and was developed jointly by Adobe, Microsoft, and SAP.
- Using Azure means that NIA can keep using the same centralized identity server, which is managed using Azure Active Directory for Office 365. This...