1. WINDOWS AZURE ISV: BT Signaal WEB SITE: www.btsignaal.comwww.btsignaal.com LOCATION: Bergen, Norway ORG SIZE: 103 employees INDUSTRY: Transportation WINDOWS AZURE ISV PROFILE: Founded in 1953, BT Signaal is a pioneer in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). This specialist knowledge is used to develop reliable and user-friendly ITS solutions, with optimum income level and operational cost-effectiveness for its customers as the primary objectives. READ MORE: Windows Azure ISV mini-case studies WINDOWS AZURE CASE STUDY Cloud Solution Breaks Traditional Barriers to Global Expansion in the Tolling Industry The global road user charging industry collects enormous amounts of money for public authorities, requiring infrastructure reliability and data security. Traditional back-office solutions require large capital investments and often local presence. But BT Signaal knew these barriers for international expansion could be overcome with a new-generation road user charging system based in the cloud. Flexibility: Easy and cost-effective to increase capacity, serve new areas, or roll out new features. Reliability: Windows Azure’s 99.9% uptime guarantee gives customers financial assurance. Global expansion: Windows Azure’s worldwide datacenter network helps to sell services globally. “We can expand into new countries more easily with a Windows Azure solution, hosting and supporting it without a physical presence. Customers benefit from scalable, sustainable systems that don’t require large capital investments.” – Trond Juvik, CEO, BT Signaal SITUATION: SOLUTION: BENEFITS: After thorough analysis, BT Signaal found that Windows Azure was the right platform for a future-oriented, secure, and scalable central system for the tolling industry: BTS CS. Offering BTS CS as software-as-a-service (SaaS) lowered the capital investments, highly improved the self services on mobile platforms, and substantially cut implementation time compared with traditional on-site installations. BT Signaal solutions leverage Windows Azure features such as: worker roles, web roles, web sites, Windows Azure Service Bus queues, Windows Azure SQL Database, Blob storage, Windows Azure Cache, and virtual machines.

2. WINDOWS AZURE ISV: BT Signaal WEB SITE: www.btsignaal.comwww.btsignaal.com LOCATION: Bergen, Norway ORG SIZE: 103 employees INDUSTRY: Transportation WINDOWS AZURE ISV PROFILE: Founded in 1953, BT Signaal is a pioneer in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). This specialist knowledge is used to develop reliable and user-friendly ITS solutions, with optimum income level and operational cost-effectiveness for its customers as the primary objectives. READ MORE: Windows Azure ISV mini-case studies WINDOWS AZURE CASE STUDY Cloud Automation for the Parking Industry Improves Efficiency, Customer Satisfaction Many of the software solutions for parking currently in place require significant human and technical resources, and are thus expensive to operate. In addition, they are often lacking in user-friendliness. As a pioneer in automation of user charging systems, BT Signaal has identified a large potential for improving the efficiency of the parking sector, and sought a cloud platform from which to offer its solution. Windows Azure makes it easy and cost-effective to increase capacity or roll out new features. The platform offers superior flexibility and almost unlimited reporting options in real time. Windows Azure helps make it possible to outsource all administration linked to parking facilities. “Thanks to Windows Azure, customers can real-time monitor and administer their parking sites from one remote access point. Motorists benefit from a number of self-services provided on mobile platforms. This increased profit and customer satisfaction.” – Trond Juvik, CEO, BT Signaal SITUATION: SOLUTION: BENEFITS: BTS Parking runs on Windows Azure as software-as-a-service (SaaS), eliminating the need for technical resources on site. The solution registers a vehicle by identifying its plate, checks its access rights, calculates the price, and generates an invoice or a direct debit. Customers can monitor and administer all their sites from one remote access point, and motorists can administer their payments on mobile platforms. BT Signaal solutions leverage Windows Azure features such as: worker roles, web roles, web sites, Windows Azure Service Bus queues, Windows Azure SQL Database, Blob storage, Windows Azure Cache, and virtual machines.