1. Cloud and Mobile Services Can Revolutionize the Way Restaurants and Customers Interact
MINI-CASE STUDY
“With Microsoft Azure we could easily scale our platform in each of its stages of maturation. Microsoft Azure has helped us to create test scenarios that have easily passed production.“ – Miguel Gomez, CTO, Appetito
SITUATION
Smartphones are being adopted as a primary means of digital consumption, and there are increasing mobile presentation solutions for countless existing services. Appetito saw an opportunity to develop a complete solution for digitizing and mobilizing the restaurant industry, but it knew that it needed to find a platform that would allow it to easily publish cloud services.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
Appetito
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LOCATION: Mexico City, Mexico
ORG SIZE: 2
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
Appetito was founded in 2013 with the mission to improve the user experience both inside and outside the restaurant, and to provide quality information to restaurants in order to identify problems with attention to their guests to offer a new and unique experience while eating. Appetito is in launch phase and is serving seven restaurants.
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SOLUTION
Appetito chose to deliver its application, which locates restaurants near a location, provides digital menus, and offers the ability to order for pickup or delivery, from the Microsoft Azure cloud. Microsoft Azure delivers information to customers and restaurants in the shortest time through resource scalability of virtual machines (restaurants can quickly get stats, for example). Appetito leverages numerous features of Microsoft Azure, including Azure Storage and Cloud Services (platform as a service, aka PaaS).
BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure offers Appetito the ability to grow its compute power and virtual machines on demand, paying for only the resources it uses.
Microsoft Azure delivers guaranteed, reliable uptime, meaning that Appetito’s customers are always provided high quality service.