Case Study: Duquesne Light Company accelerates digital innovation with Microsoft Azure

Duquesne Light Company - Customer Case Study

Duquesne Light Company, a utility provider in Pittsburgh, faced challenges with slow time-to-market and a disconnect between development and infrastructure teams, hindering its ability to innovate and improve customer experience. To modernize its digital landscape, the company partnered with Microsoft and chose to migrate its web assets using Azure products like Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database.

By implementing a cloud-based solution with Microsoft Azure and adopting modern DevOps practices with Visual Studio Team Services, the vendor enabled the customer to accelerate development and deployment dramatically. The results included provisioning new environments in hours instead of weeks, establishing a continuous integration pipeline, and pushing new features to production every three weeks. This transformation has fueled a new culture of innovation, leading to projects like a natural language bot and a large-scale IoT initiative with smart meters.

Duquesne Light Company

Sanjay Akut

Director, Corporate Applications