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The Car That Learned to Explain Itself
BMW AG modernized its Mobile Data Recorder (MDR) telemetry system on Microsoft Azure, deploying a multi-agent AI solution that lets engineers query 5-10 terabytes of weekly test-vehicle data in natural language. Built with Microsoft Foundry, the Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Cosmos DB, the system accelerates vehicle test-data analysis twelvefold, delivers insights in seconds to minutes rather than hours or days, and gives more than 100 engineers direct access to data that once required IT specialists.
The Data Was Locked in a Vault. Subsalt Found a Way to Share It Without Opening the Door.
This Microsoft customer story details how healthcare technology startup Subsalt built a HIPAA-compliant synthetic data sandbox on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric to help medical researchers and students at UT Southwestern Medical Center access real-quality clinical data in days instead of months, accelerating research outcomes while safeguarding patient privacy.
Kion
Kion is a Columbia, Maryland software company that builds a self-hosted FinOps+ platform for managing cloud operations across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Founded in 2018 as cloudtamer.io and rebranded as Kion in 2021, the company combines cloud financial management, policy-based governance, and continuous compliance into a single platform that runs inside a customer's own cloud environment. Its software is used by commercial, higher-education, and government organizations - including NASA, the CDC, Verizon, and Indeed - to control cloud spend, enforce guardrails, and automate account provisioning through retirement.
Qovery
Qovery is an internal developer platform and agentic Kubernetes management solution that lets engineering teams deploy and run production-grade infrastructure inside their own cloud accounts. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York with a remote team, it layers a Heroku-like developer experience on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and Scaleway - automating environment provisioning, ephemeral pull-request environments, and day-2 Kubernetes operations so developers can ship without becoming DevOps experts. The company raised a $13M Series A in 2025 and is used by tens of thousands of developers across more than 100 countries.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a global technology company founded in 1975 that builds software, cloud services, devices and gaming platforms used by billions of people and organizations. Best known for Windows and the Office/Microsoft 365 productivity suite, it now anchors its future on the Azure cloud and Copilot AI, positioning itself as core infrastructure for enterprise computing and the generative-AI era.
Executech
Executech is a managed IT services provider (MSP) based in South Jordan, Utah, that delivers outsourced IT support, cybersecurity, cloud, and compliance services to organizations across the western United States. Founded around 1999 by Eric Montague on a 'People First' philosophy, the company grew from a one-person operation in a garage into one of the region's largest and most-awarded IT outsourcing firms, backed since 2017 by Evergreen Services Group. It supports hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of end users across sectors like healthcare, finance, government, education, and manufacturing.
Fresche Solutions
Fresche Solutions is a Montreal-based enterprise software and services company that helps organizations manage, maintain, and modernize their IBM i (AS/400) and Microsoft systems. With more than 40 years of IBM i heritage, Fresche combines proprietary modernization tools such as X-Analysis, Presto, and Newlook with managed services, cloud hosting, and AI-driven data analytics to help legacy-dependent businesses move to modern web UIs, contemporary languages, and cloud platforms without disrupting operations.
InfoObjects Inc.
InfoObjects Inc. is a San Jose-based AI consulting and digital transformation firm, founded in 2005 by Rishi Yadav. Built originally around the open-source big data stack - Apache Spark, Kafka and Hadoop - the company has repositioned around generative and agentic AI, offering services from data engineering and cloud migration to LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and AI application development. It partners with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Anthropic and OpenAI, and works with enterprise clients across finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
Just After Midnight
Just After Midnight (JAM) is a London-founded, globally distributed managed services company that keeps mission-critical, customer-facing digital platforms running around the clock. It provides 24/7/365 application, website and cloud support, managed cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud, and DevOps consultancy - acting as the after-hours and full-stack support partner behind major brands and digital agencies. Founded in 2016 to solve the problem of out-of-hours support that agencies struggle to staff, JAM now operates across four continents and is part of the Ultima group.
Anuj Jalan
Anuj Jalan is the Vice President of Sales Marketing at Microsoft, based in Chandigarh, India. He has built his career across major technology and services firms, moving from process development at Genpact and customer support at Dell to senior sales and marketing leadership at one of the world's largest technology companies. With an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a background spanning recruitment, operations, and client engagement, Jalan represents the archetype of a career professional who climbed the ranks through diverse industry exposure in India's booming tech sector.
EverOps
EverOps is a San Francisco-based IT and cloud managed services provider that embeds small teams of senior engineers - called TechPods - directly inside client organizations to run DevOps, SRE, ITOps, and security work. Founded in 2012 and re-capitalized in 2022, the firm pitches itself as an alternative to advice-only consulting and staffing shops: pods sit in the client's toolchain, attend standups, and take ownership of outcomes across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, observability, and cloud cost reduction.
StoneFly, Inc.
StoneFly, Inc. is a Castro Valley, California enterprise storage company founded in 1996 that helped turn iSCSI into an industry standard - it registered iSCSI.com in March 1996 and shipped one of the first iSCSI storage appliances in 2002. Today it builds NAS, SAN, unified scale-out (USO), backup and disaster-recovery appliances, and cloud storage, all powered by its patented StoneFusion operating system and Air-Gapped Vault immutable, ransomware-resistant technology. A subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory (DNF), StoneFly serves 10,000+ customers from SMBs to Fortune 500 and government - including deployments aboard US Navy Littoral Combat Ships and Virginia-class submarines.
BEMO
BEMO is a Redmond, Washington-based managed IT and security service provider built specifically for small and mid-sized businesses that run on Microsoft 365 and Azure. Founded in 2010 by ex-Microsoft veterans Bruno Lecoq and Joel Lachance, the fully remote company bundles cybersecurity, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, NIST 800-171), managed helpdesk, and AI/Copilot security into packaged tiers so 10-to-500-person organizations can meet audit requirements without hiring an in-house security team. BEMO is a repeat Microsoft US Partner of the Year and a four-time Inc. 5000 honoree.
Bruno Lecoq
Bruno Lecoq is the French-born co-founder, CEO and Chief Information Security Officer of BEMO, a Redmond, Washington cybersecurity and compliance company built for small and mid-sized businesses living inside the Microsoft cloud. After roughly two decades at Microsoft - working across MS-DOS, Windows, Exchange, Office and the hardware supply chain before becoming a director of business processes - he left to fix a gap he kept seeing: real, affordable security for companies too small for an enterprise security team. Since 2010 BEMO has grown into a Microsoft Direct CSP and US Partner of the Year, a back-to-back Inc 5000 honoree, and the maker of a SaaS platform that automates Microsoft 365 security and compliance for over a thousand businesses.
Tript Singh Lamba
Tript Singh Lamba is the founder and CEO of ProductNow, an AI-native operating system for product teams that he built largely as a solo developer (with one intern) before raising a $6M seed round led by Sierra Ventures in July 2025. Over two decades he built flagship platforms at Microsoft, Google, and Expedia - helping launch Bing and the early core of Microsoft Messenger and Azure, co-founding Google's Ads AI personalization team, leading YouTube Ads through hypergrowth, and serving as SVP of Consumer Product at Expedia. His thesis: with AI accelerating engineering, the real bottleneck is no longer code but turning strategy into execution.
Trianz
Trianz is a Silicon Valley digital-transformation firm that has reinvented itself from a traditional IT consultancy into an IP-led, 'Transformation Services as Software' company. Founded in 2001 by former special-forces officer Sri Manchala, it builds hyper-automated platforms - Concierto for multi-cloud migration and operations, Extrica for turning data into AI, and Pulse for the digital workplace - to accelerate transformations for Fortune 1000 and emerging enterprises across data, analytics, cloud, and security.
Archera
Archera is a Bellevue, Washington FinOps company that turns long-term cloud commitments into short, insured ones. Its free multi-cloud platform gives teams cost visibility, forecasting, and purchasing recommendations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, then layers on its signature Insured Commitments - reserved instances and savings plans wrapped with a money-back guarantee and terms as short as 30 days. The result is commitment-level discounts of roughly 30-40% without the multi-year lock-in. Founded in 2019 by brothers Aran and Nikhil Khanna, Archera manages over $3.4B in annual cloud spend for more than 1,000 customers.
Coiled
Coiled is a lightweight cloud compute platform that lets Python users scale data science, machine learning, and AI workloads from a laptop to thousands of cloud machines without Docker or Kubernetes. Founded in 2020 by Matthew Rocklin, the creator of the open-source Dask library, Coiled runs inside a customer's own AWS, GCP, or Azure account, handling provisioning, autoscaling, environment replication, and cost visibility so data teams can run Dask clusters, serverless functions, and batch jobs with minimal friction.
WAi Technologies
WAi Technologies is a Santa Clara-based digital engineering and AI services company that helps enterprises modernize legacy .NET applications and ship software faster. As a long-standing Microsoft partner, it pairs Azure, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform expertise with its own product line: the open-source Raaghu Design System and AI Pundit, an AI toolchain that converts Figma designs into production-ready front-end code. Its current bet is 'spec-driven' AI delivery - keeping humans in control of strategy while AI does the building.
Zelar
Zelar (ZelarSoft) is a cloud-native engineering and consulting firm that helps banks, telcos, oil & gas, and government teams adopt Kubernetes, DevOps, and AI without the usual pain. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Vasu Maganti, the company pairs hands-on services - cloud migration, SRE, security, and data engineering - with its own platforms: Klusternetes for self-service Kubernetes multi-tenancy, OpenOps for production-ready GKE stacks, and Cokpit for agentic AI DevOps. A Google Cloud Premier Partner with offices across the US, Canada, India, and the UAE, Zelar bets that most teams want cloud-native outcomes, not cloud-native homework.
Muhammad Asad Tanwir
Muhammad Asad Tanwir is a Netherlands-based technical project manager and software architect with more than a decade building and shipping enterprise software. He moves fluently between the whiteboard and the codebase: ecosystem architecture, cloud transformation, DevOps and pre-sales on one side, hands-on Angular, .NET, C#, Azure and SQL on the other. After roughly six years at Wiseman Innovations he has been working on AI-driven projects, including a recent stretch in Riyadh tied to Saudi technology firm Azm Development, where a colleague publicly called him the company's biggest gem.
Jeremy Nelson
Jeremy Nelson is a Vice President at Microsoft, leading Marketing Services, Marketing Engines & Experiences. Based in Redmond, Washington, he has spent over two decades at Microsoft - joining in December 2002 - building his career from early-stage roles all the way to VP. His focus spans demand generation infrastructure, marketing technology platforms, and the systems that power Microsoft's global marketing engine. With a background from Seattle University (class of 2000), Nelson represents a generation of Microsoft lifers who grew up alongside the cloud era and now shape how one of the world's largest technology companies reaches its customers.
Jonathan Manalo
Jonathan Manalo is VP of Growth at Microsoft, operating from Central Luzon, Philippines. In this role he drives commercial expansion across one of the world's most influential technology companies - a company whose annual revenue exceeds $281 billion and whose technologies power enterprises from startups to sovereign governments. Based in the Philippines, Manalo sits at the intersection of Microsoft's deep enterprise portfolio - Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Dynamics 365 - and the rapidly digitizing Southeast Asian market.
Michael Schechter
Michael Schechter is Corporate Vice President of Search Growth and Experiences at Microsoft, where he has spent over two decades shaping how people discover information on the web. A computer science graduate of the University of Maryland, he has been at the center of Bing's evolution - from leading the captions feature in its early days to orchestrating the AI-powered transformation of Bing with Copilot Search. Known for his candid voice on search industry trends and his willingness to engage publicly on topics like citation transparency and AI reliability, Schechter represents the rare executive who can speak both engineer and user fluently.
Nancy Lesueur
Nancy Lesueur is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience, currently serving as Chief of Staff for the Corporate Vice President of Customer Experience Engineering at Microsoft Security. Based in Sammamish, Washington, she bridges strategic leadership with operational execution at one of the world's most critical security organizations. Her career spans roles in risk intelligence, fraud and abuse prevention, and enterprise program management, with previous positions at FiveBy Solutions and Murphy & Associates. Known for her collaborative leadership style and exceptional listening skills, Nancy is also an advocate for inclusive workplace cultures, having championed Microsoft's Indigenous Employee Resource Group partnerships during a visit to Aotearoa New Zealand.
Natalie Gibralter
Natalie Gibralter is a New York-based product executive currently serving as VP of Product, AI Innovation for Microsoft Experience and Devices. She built her reputation as the first Product Manager at Squarespace, scaling the company's commerce platform through a decade of 10x growth to IPO. Before tech, she founded TrailTalks, a nonprofit bridging young Israeli backpackers with international peers, and helped launch KIND's social mission. An Oxford-trained philosopher turned product leader, she was named to Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40 in 2022 and is known for building empowered, outcome-focused teams at the intersection of people and technology.
Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in New Delhi, India. He leads marketing strategy and execution for one of the world's most valuable technology companies in one of its fastest-growing markets. Operating at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing, Sharma drives Microsoft's brand and commercial marketing efforts across India - a country Microsoft has identified as central to its global AI and cloud expansion strategy.
Ross Ortega
Ross Ortega is VP of Product Management at Microsoft, currently leading Discovery and Communications initiatives. He previously built a $1 billion portfolio of Azure networking services - including ExpressRoute, Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, and Web Application Firewall - and then led Azure for Operators, Microsoft's 5G and edge computing platform for telecommunications providers. Before Microsoft, he co-founded Consystant Design Technologies and served as President and CTO of GraniteEdge Networks. A career technologist with roots in embedded systems and networking, Ortega has spent over two decades at Microsoft shaping how enterprises and telecoms connect to the cloud.
Song Zou
Song Zou is Vice President of the Edge Growth Team at Microsoft, where he leads the growth strategy for one of the world's most widely-used browsers. A 25-year Microsoft veteran, he has shaped the user experience of nearly every major Windows release - from MSN Money to Vista's desktop to Windows 7's taskbar and Start menu - before steering the pivotal migration of Microsoft Edge to the Chromium engine and building the microservices infrastructure behind it. Trained as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he is a rare operator who bridges deep systems-level engineering with executive-scale product growth.
Armada
Armada is a San Francisco-based edge computing company that builds ruggedized, containerized data centers - the Galleon family and the megawatt-scale Leviathan - paired with Starlink connectivity and an AI orchestration platform. Its mission is to put AI and compute everywhere the cloud can't reach: oil rigs, mines, ships, forward operating bases, and remote industrial sites.