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Infosys needed a cloud-based database as a central part of its strategy to offer its customers lowcost, zero-maintenance solutions that are accessed through the Web. The company is using SQL Data services to create a solution for auto dealers, which it can easily replicate to meet similar integration needs for healthcare, hospitality, insurance, and other industry verticals.
Infosys needed a cloud-based database as a central part of its strategy to offer its customers lowcost, zero-maintenance solutions that are accessed through the Web. The company is using SQL Data services to create a solution for auto dealers, which it can easily replicate to meet similar integration needs for healthcare, hospitality, insurance, and other industry verticals.
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Infosys needed a cloud-based database as a central part of its strategy to offer its customers lowcost, zero-maintenance solutions that are accessed through the Web. The company is using SQL Data services to create a solution for auto dealers, which it can easily replicate to meet similar integration needs for healthcare, hospitality, insurance, and other industry verticals.
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Overview “With SDS running on the Microsoft Services
Country or Region: United States Industry: Information Technology Platform we can give customers a zero- maintenance data hub. The cloud is Customer Profile Based in Bangalore, India, becoming real.” Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Jitendra Pal Thethi, Principal Architect, Infosys Technologies Ltd. and Strategic Alliance Partner Infosys Technologies defines, Infosys Technologies Ltd. is an IT transformation leader designs, and delivers IT-enabled business solutions for Global 2000 for its clients around the world. With over 95,000 companies. employees in more than 64 offices around the world, the Business Situation company constantly searches for the best technology to Infosys needed a cloud-based help its customers meet their business goals. As Infosys database as a central part of its strategy to offer its customers low- began designing a solution to let automobile dealers cost, zero-maintenance solutions share information on inventories and other resources, it that are accessed through the Web. wanted to offer a cloud-based solution that would be Solution simple to deploy, easy to scale, and require zero The company is building its solutions using the cloud-based maintenance from the customer. To create its hub-in- Microsoft Services Platform, the-cloud solution it needed a cloud-based database, including Microsoft SQL Data Services. which it found with Microsoft® SQL Data Services, part of the Microsoft Services Platform. Infosys is using SQL Benefits Complete cloud solution Data Services to create a solution for auto dealers, Low-cost deployment and zero which it can easily replicate to meet similar integration maintenance Easy replication for other verticals needs for healthcare, hospitality, insurance, and other Scalability industry verticals. Integration with legacy systems “You really need a Situation dealerships in a network and with Infosys Technologies Ltd., which their original equipment hub that each defines, designs and delivers manufacturers (OEMs). dealer can simply technology-enabled business solutions for Global 2000 companies, Solution plug into, and cloud- continuously tracks the innovations in The Infosys auto dealer solution is based services core technology to leverage the built using Web and STAR based benefit to clients. standards and it leverages the running on the technologies from the cloud-based Microsoft Services The company, which has over 95,000 Microsoft® Services Platform including employees in more than 64 offices Microsoft SQL Data Services (SDS). Platform provides an around the world, is eager to offer its SDS offers highly scalable and ideal low-cost, zero- global customers solutions that take Internet-facing distributed database advantage of cloud computing, an services in the cloud for storing and maintenance hub emerging technology based on processing relational queries. It helps solution.” offering computing resources, developers create and provision new applications, and storage from the applications with REST and SOAP Jitendra Pal Thethi, Principal Architect, Internet, or cloud. The cloud concept, based Web protocols. The services Infosys Technologies Ltd. which encompasses popular delivery are built on robust Microsoft SQL technologies such as Software + Server® database and Windows Services and Software as a Service, Server® technologies, providing high enables developers to create rich availability and security. solutions that customers can access through the Web. As Infosys considered the design for its auto dealer and OEM integration Customers benefit from cloud-based solution, it knew that it needed to go solutions because there doesn’t need beyond conventional point-to-point to be any client-side application connections between dealer locations. deployment or maintenance. “We want to deliver a simple, Similarly, organizations can avoid the appliance-like solution that can be IT expenses traditionally involved in placed in a dealership premises and hosting server-based solutions. would augment the existing DMS systems to provide the additional B2B Infosys was looking at revitalizing its integration capability from our cloud- auto dealer solution to address based services” says Jitendra Pal flexibility and scalability Thethi, Principal Architect at Infosys. requirements. Infosys assessed the applicability and value of a cloud- Getting beyond point-to-point based model and decided it provided connections meant finding an efficient enhanced benefits to customers in hub-based system, which again this scenario. The Infosys cloud-based pointed toward the cloud, and SDS solution for the automotive industry running on the Microsoft Services would simplify the process of sharing Platform. inventory and other data between “With SQL Data “It would be costly to create and solutions for its global customers. The maintain physical integrations company can create solutions that Services we are able between dealerships in one have low-cost deployment and zero to provide our dealership network, for example, and customer-side maintenance. The such point-to-point solutions aren’t solutions can be easily replicated for customers with a scalable,” says Thethi. “You really other verticals, provide virtually cloud-based solution need a hub that each dealer can unlimited scalability, and integrate simply plug into, and cloud-based easily with legacy systems. which requires no services running on the Microsoft capital expenditures Services Platform provide an ideal Low cost Robust Infrastructure low-cost, zero-maintenance hub Ensures High Service Availability or operational solution.” Working with SDS and the rest of the expenditures. This Microsoft Services Platform has Infosys Solution Architecture provided Infosys with the complete removes a lot of Infosys is using a three-tier cloud infrastructure it needed to would-be barriers to architecture that includes: create its auto dealer solution. “We needed a robust cloud-based solution Web-based Interface. Dealer database solution to support hub- employees, wanting to check acceptance.” inventory at another dealership, or based integration,” Thethi notes. “That is exactly what SDS provides. Jitendra Pal Thethi, Principal Architect, seeking OEM information, use a The Services Platform also provides Infosys Technologies Ltd. desktop browser to connect to the the infrastructure we need for cloud-based Infosys solution. deploying our application from the Application Tier. Infosys provides cloud, and for supporting the middle-tier code and business authentication.” logic enabling integration of data between participating parties. This Infosys sees the platform as a great Infosys application tier provides value proposition. “SQL Data Services connectivity between SDS in the and the rest of the Services Platform cloud and the dealer’s existing data combine to form a cloud systems. The Infosys Legacy infrastructure that is very exciting,” Modernization solution, a part of the says Thethi. “This opens the door for Catalytic IT solution suite is used with creating a new generation of cloud- dealerships that have green-screen based solutions.” legacy systems. The Infosys application tier is hosted in the cloud. Low-Cost Deployment and Zero- Data Tier. Data from all parties— Maintenance dealers, OEMs and other participants As Infosys searched for the best —is hosted on a dedicated instance of platform on which to build its cloud- SDS in the cloud. based auto dealer integration solution, it sought a solution that Benefits would be inexpensive for its Infosys has found the platform it customers to deploy and maintain. needs to create complete cloud-based “With SDS and the “We needed a database at our hub, solutions. But all of these solutions but didn’t want dealers to have to require a hub-based data store, which rest of the Microsoft deploy and support that level of is why SDS is so important.” Services Platform, infrastructure,” says Thethi. “With SQL Data Services we are able to Thethi adds: “The need for a solution we can scale to any provide our customers with a cloud- like this has always been there. With number of based solution which requires no a cloud-based platform and capital expenditures or operational leveraging Microsoft Services Platform automobile dealers, expenditures. This removes a lot of we can give customers a scalable, or insurance agents, would-be barriers to solution zero-maintenance services and data acceptance.” hub. The cloud infrastructure is or to any number of becoming real and the this appliance participants of any Working with SDS and the Microsoft based approach for connecting the Services Platform also relieves Infosys cloud with the enterprise makes it other vertical we and its customers from the anxiety more relevant” work with." and expenses of ensuring high availability and similar administrative Scalability Jitendra Pal Thethi, Principal Architect, concerns. Thethi notes, “We like the Infosys likes the ease with which it Infosys Technologies Ltd. idea that data replication, disaster can add new participants to a cloud- recovery, and other administrative based solution. “With SDS, we can responsibilities are completely scale to any number of automobile handled by Microsoft.” dealers, or insurance agents, or to any number of participants of any Easy Replication for Other Verticals other vertical we work with,” says Auto dealerships are just one of a Thethi. “As the number of number of industries that Infosys sees participating dealerships goes up, the benefiting from appliance-like cloud- cost of the cloud service is based solutions using SDS as the data incremented, but this is offset by the repository. Whether providing an increase in revenue. The customer integration point for hotels, clinics, or never has to worry about scalability. insurance agents, all of these That is handled by the huge data verticals typically include centers of the Microsoft Foundation geographically distributed operations Services.” that could benefit from easy to deploy, low-cost, and zero- Integration with Legacy Systems maintenance solutions. Integration of legacy systems is an area of Infosys expertise. “Our Infosys “We need a general cloud platform Legacy Modernization solution has that will make it easy to replicate our enabled companies around the globe solution for other verticals,” says to maximize the value of their legacy Thethi. “The hospitality industry, systems,” Thethi says. “We can healthcare industry, insurance create our solution to sit between the industry, and several other verticals legacy system and the cloud, and we could all benefit from cloud-based can deploy that solution on the cloud. For More Information This brings great value to our Azure Services Platform For more information about customers—to be able to make full The Azure™ Services Platform Microsoft products and services, call use of their legacy systems, while provides an excellent foundation for the Microsoft Sales Information handling everything from the cloud.” expanding product and service Center at (800) 426-9400. In offerings. The Azure components Canada, call the Microsoft Canada include: Information Centre at (877) 568- Windows Azure. Windows Azure 2495. Customers who are deaf or Summary is a development, run-time and hard-of-hearing can reach Microsoft In summary, Infosys is using the control environment that is text telephone (TTY/TDD) services Microsoft Services Platform as it scalable, flexible, secure and at (800) 892-5234 in the United designs a new generation of cloud- Interoperable. States or (905) 568-9641 in Canada. based applications to help its global Microsoft SQL Services. SQL Outside the 50 United States and customers enjoy low-cost, zero- Services is a suite of cloud-based Canada, please contact your local maintenance solutions accessed SQL Server data platform Microsoft subsidiary. To access through the Web. capabilities. The first of these information using the World Wide capabilities is SQL Data Services, Web, go to: www.microsoft.com which offers Internet-facing database service for relational For more information about Infosys queries. Technologies Ltd products and Microsoft.NET Services. Microsoft services, call (510) 742-3000 or visit .NET Services is a suite of Web the Web site at: services for customers with www.infosys.com/microsoft integration and business-to- business collaboration requirements. These services include workflow, access control, and service bus connectivity. Live Services. Live Services is a comprehensive set of Web services that represent the core functionality of Windows Live (includes Windows Live Messenger, Live Search, and many more).
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Document published October 2008
Microsoft SQL Services Microsoft SQL Services extends the SQL Server capabilities in cloud as web-based services. It enables you to store data from structured, semi- structured, and unstructured documents. SQL Services will deliver a rich set of integrated services for relational database, search, reporting, analytics and data synchronization with mobile users, remote offices and business partners. The first of these SQL Services available today is database services called SQL Data Services. .
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