1. Microsoft Azure Launches Enterprise Product Costing Solution into the Future, into the Cloud
“FACTON EPC is the modern, sustainable software solution for product costing and profitability analysis. With FACTON on Microsoft Azure, our customers benefit from immediate availability, rapid deployment, and scalability.” – Alexander M. Swoboda, CEO, FACTON
SITUATION
FACTON, maker of FACTON EPC Suite, an enterprise product costing solution, had been a Microsoft partner for years. It had good experiences using Microsoft technologies intensively as part of its development, quality assurance, and training activities. FACTON wanted to take its software to the next level and offer its customers innovative cost management solutions in the cloud without having to implement enterprise software.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
FACTON
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LOCATION: Potsdam, Germany and Detroit, MI, USA
ORG SIZE: 80 employees
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
FACTON makes turnkey solutions for product costing for the manufacturing sector. Its solutions address the needs of executive management and individual departments within the enterprise by enabling standardized, enterprise-wide costing independent of location and department for maximum product cost transparency throughout every phase of the product lifecycle.
SOLUTION
For FACTON, the logical next step was to run the FACTON EPC cloud solution on Microsoft Azure. Using its built-in services such as Azure SQL Database, Elastic Pools, and Azure App Services, FACTON EPC now offers a cloud solution that takes enterprise-wide product cost management into the future with immediate availability, instant scalability, and low administrative and operating expenses. Features like single-point admin and single sign-on simply make work easier, allowing enterprises of all sizes to quickly deploy in a Software-as-a-Service environment.
BENEFITS
With Microsoft Azure, there are no expensive and timely investments in setting up and operating new infrastructures.
Azure meets the highest demands for data security; everything Azure offers is backed by industry certifications for security and compliance.