WINDOWS AZURE ISV: Ceiba Solutions, Inc.WEB SITES: www.ceibasolutions.comwww.ceibasolutions.com/helium-aboutLOCATION: Boston, USAORG SIZE: >50INDUSTRY: IT SolutionsWINDOWS AZURE ISV PROFILE:

WINDOWS AZURE CASE STUDY

Cloud-Based Data Application and MarketplaceEase Data-Crunching in Life Sciences Field

“Whether it’s researching the next groundbreaking drug, running marketing analytics, or connecting CRM with financial packages, with Windows Azure, Helium’s customers can access hundreds of routines, via the Helium Marketplace, to get their work done in record time.” – Robert Cooper, Business Unit Leader, Helium SoftwareSITUATION:

SOLUTION:

• Massive scale: Windows Azure gives Helium access to huge amounts of computing power, allowing its customers to operate more effectively.

• Global expansion: Helium has expanded its business globally, with access to applications, applications functions/routines, and data services from all over the world, leveraging Windows Azure.

BENEFITS:

Life sciences and health care users face a deluge of data, and must connect information and derive insights across silos and applications. They need to easily use application reporting, analysis functions, and data services in a way that recognizes the inherent relationships among disparate data. To deliver a solution on scalable and supportable technology, Ceiba sought a partner investing in moving its platform’s capabilities forward, ensuring great performance today and in the future.Ceiba deployed its Helium solution and associated data marketplace on Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service. Helium lives between internal and public data sources and functions and end-user tools, such as Microsoft Excel. Helium scales up to hundreds of applications and application routines, taking advantage of Windows Azure’s performance to process customer jobs quickly. Additional performance and scalability benefits are realized when customers use Windows Azure storage and Cloud Services for their internal data and data services.

Ceiba empowers life sciences and health care data while reducing management costs. Its Helium solution deliversapplication reporting functions and

associated information within common user applications (e.g., Microsoft Excel), simplifying data access and increasing productivity.

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