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1. Leading Spanish Learning Management System (LMS) Bets on the Cloud “At the beginning, this approach to MS was just a matter of system’s enhancement. Nowadays we know Windows Azure is a winning bet also because of its customized and friendly support, and the easy way in which we can migrate all our systems.” – Javier Pascual Soriano, OKN® CTO WINDOWS AZURE CSV: Open Knowledge Network WEB SITE: www.openknowledgenetwork.comLOCATION: Madrid, Spain ORG SIZE: 70 employees INDUSTRY:E-Learning WINDOWS AZURE CSV PROFILE: Founded in Madrid, Spain in 2010, Open Knowledge Networks (OKN®) is one of the leading companies in human capital training and development solutions in Spain. It is focused on enterprise accounts of all sectors and also on academic institutions and public administration. OKN® provides SaaS solutions to their customers. It was using a traditional hosting provider but finding, in some situations, this provider was not able to meet the SLAs and high standards that its large company customers needed. OKN® was also beginning to gain international customers and that was an additional challenge as its existing hosting provider didn’t have datacenters outside of Europe. SITUATION: OKN® decided to migrate its OKN® Training Platform to Windows Azure. This solution provides a learning management system with a set of online tools that cover the e-learning and offline training management needs of enterprise companies. The solution is 100% open source-based on Linux, PHP and MySQL. OKN® will use Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and BLOB Storage. SOLUTION: BENEFITS: • Reliability: With Windows Azure OKN® is able to provide an enterprise-class service to its customers with strict SLAs. • Global expansion: Windows Azure also helps OKN® sell its services globally as it now has access to datacenters all over the world. WINDOWS AZURE CASE STUDY