Prof. Reichert and M.Sc. Kevin Andrews from the DBIS institute successfully secured a Microsoft Azure research grant. Azure is a cloud computing platform offered by Microsoft comprising a multitude of services. The research grant gives us free access to many of the services and tools offered on Azure. These include virtual machines, hosted SQL and NoSQL databases and even large compute-clusters that can help solve complex problems quickly.

The grant and the included services allow us to take our research regarding object-aware and data-driven process management and big data to the next level. Furthermore, we can offer DBIS students the unique opportunity to work with professional cloud services in the course of their projects, seminars, and theses.