Windows Azure Web Sites uses the languages and open source apps of a customer's choice and supports deployment with Git, FTP, and TFS.
The investment comes as a new market emerges for increasingly sophisticated connected services that use the data from multiple sources to make sense of a customer's business and in SumAll's case, predict the ROI on everything from Instagram photos to Google Analytics.
Usually the best source of capital is a customer, and selling has two benefits.
Most radical of all, Ross wants to capitalize on the developing world not merely as a place of cheap labor but, ultimately, as a source of new customers for fabrics that will become jeans and bedspreads.
Henry Ford long ago embraced standardization as a source of efficiency and customer satisfaction.
This means stickers could end up leaving to a significant source of new customers if these downloaders decide to purchase a Raden after testing the app.
And the company's Sync/MyFordTouch system, while paying off in higher transaction prices, was served up before its time and has been a big source of customer complaints, setting back Ford's quality ratings.
Office buildings and businesses are not only a potential source of customers, but also an indication if the area is good for business.
For Sun, eBay has been a tremendous source of new customers, even though the manufacturer sells directly on its own Web site.
If you can lock in a source of customers then you can build a very big business, one that scales.
