"Being able to get very actionable insights at an individual restaurant level is game changing. If you know specifically that a particular restaurant has a heat and speed problem, or what particular items are reported as cold, or which particular servers are slow, or what’s causing the bottleneck, that’s game changing, and you’re getting it in real time."

"It's part of our audit requirements that we keep data for seven years, and some information has to be retained for as long as 30 years. With HDInsight, we can store more data and query it as needed."

"Until now, we haven’t had the ability to optimize the guest experience based on their specific interactions with the devices. With Azure we can close the loop."

"We wanted to go beyond the industry standard of preventative maintenance to offer predictive and even preemptive maintenance, so we can guarantee a higher uptime percentage on our elevators."

"We plan to deploy Microsoft Azure technologies across all of our monitoring applications, because they enable us to orchestrate data more effectively across increasingly complex environments. We can serve remote customers, wherever in the world they are, at a level of efficiency that hasn’t been possible before."