Case Study: Crystal Group achieves faster time-to-market and mobile productivity with Microsoft Azure

Asian garment manufacturer gains competitive advantage with operating system upgrade

Crystal Group, a Hong Kong–based garment manufacturer with global brands as customers, faced the industry shift to fast fashion—shorter lead times, mass customization, and more complex orders—that exposed the limits of paper-based, email-driven sales and slow approval workflows. To stay competitive the company needed mobile, secure access for designers and sales teams working on-site with customers.

Crystal deployed Windows 10 Enterprise, Microsoft Azure cloud security and Enterprise Mobility Suite, and three Universal Windows Platform apps (Style Library, Quotation Approval, Sales Hub) to automate the sales cycle and enable Continuum-powered mobile presentations. The result: paper and manual steps were eliminated, quotations and designs are finalized in a single visit, prototype samples are delivered much faster, security and device management improved, and Crystal gained a clear competitive advantage in time-to-market.

Crystal Group

Karl Ting

General Manager