Case Study: UST Global achieves 20X faster go-to-market with Microsoft Corporation’s Xamarin and DevOps

UST Global Accelerates innovation for the Mobile-1st world with Xamarin and Microsoft DevOps

UST Global, a global IT services company with 17,000 employees, needed to improve workforce mobility and streamline a fragmented set of internal mobile apps. Its teams had built many separate applications for tasks like leave requests, purchase orders, and service tickets, but on-premise hosting, limited collaboration, and high testing and device costs slowed development and created a poor user experience. Microsoft Corporation’s Xamarin and Microsoft DevOps capabilities were used to address these challenges.

Microsoft Corporation helped UST Global consolidate its apps into a single “U’N UST” mobile app and move development and workflows to the cloud with Visual Studio Services, Xamarin Cross-Development Platform, Azure Mobile Services, and HockeyApp. The result was a 30% improvement in the development lifecycle over nine months, plus measurable gains including a 75% reduction in cycle time, 50% fewer cross-platform developer resources, 90% less hardware usage, and 20x faster go-to-market.

UST Global

Sunil Kanchi

CIO