Paychex explains why it bet on Microsoft's cloud database and AI services. On Monday, Microsoft also announced Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.
The company evaluated other clouds as well, according to David Wilson, senior director of infrastructure and architecture at Paychex, but found that Microsoft's technology"far exceeded" that of its rivals. Nowadays, Wilson says, Paychex is relying on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database cloud service to handle its data.," Wilson told Business Insider."They have delivered with what they said they're capable of doing. It's been an interesting and enlightening process.
Paychex now runs over 30,000 databases in Azure to support tasks like tracking attendance and absences, scheduling employees, and swapping shifts.has helped Paychex with its"explosive" growth. For example, clocking in and out requires high capacity, especially during peak times."We run that in Azure cloud. It allows for the dynamic performance and demand to be valuable," Wilson said.
Wilson felt that Microsoft's artificial intelligence technologies were"more robust" than other cloud providers for building the chatbot Paychex wanted, integrated with the data that was already in Azure.Microsoft bets on AzureSpecifically, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which allows developers to massively scale their applications and supports up to 100TB of data.
also announced that Hyperscale on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, an open source database service, is now available in preview.
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