"Intimate contact" with WindowsAzure

The Windows Azure platform is a cloud service platform independently developed by Microsoft. The reason why Microsoft wants to develop this product is mainly to realize the localization of cloud computing. CCH, which provides software for business professionals, rewrites its business tax calculation program to the Windows AzureTM platform. CCH hopes that the use of Windows Azure will give users more choices, as well as the ability to expand on demand and lower costs. Migrating to Windows Azure is very simple for developers because Windows Azure provides a well-known tool set and operating environment. Join us today on WindowsAzure to see how ISV can save money and increase efficiency.

Business Needs

CCH, Wolters Kluwer Education Publishing Group, a tax, audit, legal and business professional Provide information services, software and workflow tools. The company's goal is to help professionals make important decisions efficiently and increase productivity.

CCH offers a Sales Tax Office software that calculates and applies business taxes for intercontinental, interprovincial and inter-jurisdictional environments. Applications can handle real-time business tax calculations for multiple business entities and interact with a wide range of enterprise resource planning (ERP) modules and systems.

CCH installed Sales Tax Office for users in the non-cloud, but the company decided to explore the possibility of developing a managed book application in the "cloud" - through a data center on the Internet. "We believe that the ability to provide both non-cloud or hosted options, as well as the ability to switch between two, allows users to have flexibility at any given time, regardless of which most meaningful solution to choose. " Scott Gruchot, vice president of Advance Technology at CCH.

Solution:

After considering several vendors' hosting plans (including Amazon, Google), CCH chose Microsoft's Windws AzureTM platform platform. The Windows AzureTM platform is an Internet-level cloud service platform hosted by Microsoft Data Center and provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used independently or in conjunction. "For us, Windows Azure offers an attractive option," Jones Pavan said, CCH Chief Architect. " It includes more services than other programs, not to mention cheap maintenance without intervention. "

CCH also chose Windows Azure because many CCH customers use Microsoft Dynamics® business software, which is designed to work with other Microsoft solutions. "With Windows Azure, our customers can use Sales Tax Office and Microsoft Dynamics AX," Gurleen Randhawa to explain, CCH Development Manager. " The advantages of using a world-class tax calculation engine and ERP system are reflected in all aspects of "cloud""" "

We were amazed at the successful testing of the system on the Windows Azure platform with very few code changes. --Jones Pavan, Chief Architect of CCH

When CCH started a partnership with Windows Azure in June 2009, the company was not very sure about the migration, because using CA Plex to build Sales Tax Office . " We were not sure if we could successfully move the Plex dynamic link library to the cloud. " Pavan recalls.

However, CCH has only encountered a small difficulty in migrating Sales Tax Office to the Windows Azure platform, and it has ensured its security with cloud-based certificate-based authentication. Pavan continued. " We were amazed at the successful testing of the system on the Windows Azure platform with very few code changes. " . Previous12Next page Total 2 pages