--- title: Blog posts tagged "ROI" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/roi?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "ROI" #### [Bancard streamlines PCI compliance with Canonical’s Landscape](https://canonical.com/blog/bancard-streamlines-pci-compliance-with-canonicals-landscape) Landscape centralises management of Ubuntu servers to increase efficiency and support compliance with financial industry regulations Summary NA Bancard provides fully managed, cost-effective payment processing services, enabling US businesses to accept non-cash payments in store, online, and through mobile channels. Mission-critical finan --- Cloud and server #### [AdAction drives ad-serving performance with Ubuntu and Membase Server](https://canonical.com/blog/adaction-drives-ad-serving-performance-with-ubuntu-and-membase-server) New server-side solution delivers high throughput and zero downtime Summary AdAction, a leader in the ad-serving business, tracks consumer behaviour online and delivers the right adverts to the right people at the right time. To achieve this, the company must store massive amounts of consumer data — from roughly 75 million consumers each --- Company #### [Agora Games makes dramatic time and cost savings with Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/agora-games-makes-dramatic-time-and-cost-savings-with-ubuntu) Gaming company cuts server infrastructure by almost half with Ubuntu and VMware Summary Agora Games creates custom online gaming communities and develops video-game middleware. As a fast-growing company, Agora Games realised that it needed to implement a standardised infrastructure that could scale to meet growing demand. It worked with t --- Company #### [Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/skalica-city-hall-reduces-costs-by-70-per-cent-with-ubuntu) Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop infrastructure to 120 users. The team found that its existing Microsoft Windows XP-based environment was too expensive to upgrade. It decided to switch to Ubuntu Desktop Edition and a --- Desktop #### [Emphony Technologies achieves 100 per cent uptime with Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/emphony-technologies-achieves-100-per-cent-uptime-with-ubuntu) New business Emphony Technologies needed to implement a cost-effective, reliable and available IT infrastructure. It wanted to introduce a server environment on which its infrastructure that project management applications and common workloads could both run. The company chose to implement Ubuntu Server Edition. As a result, the organisat --- Company #### [Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent](https://canonical.com/blog/chicago-based-financial-services-company-chooses-ubuntu-and-cuts-server-infrastructure-by-70-per-cent) Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of performance issues, the company decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Now Equitec can run its entire workload on just 30 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, --- Company #### [PlusServer deploys Landscape Dedicated Server and achieves a rapid return on investment](https://canonical.com/blog/plusserver-deploys-landscape-dedicated-server-and-achieves-a-rapid-return-on-investment) Summary German hosting provider PlusServer AG runs 70 per cent of its internal systems and 15 per cent of customer servers on Ubuntu. To reduce time spent on routine maintenance and improve control over updates, the company rolled out Landscape Dedicated Server from Canonical. With Landscape, PlusServer administrators can manage multiple --- Company