Brazilian Agribusiness Modernizes Operations and Boosts Remote Productivity
Usina Santa Adélia, a major Brazilian agribusiness company, modernized its corporate IT environment through a comprehensive migration to Microsoft Azure. The project, which began in September 2019 and culminated in March 2020, replaced legacy infrastructure that hindered scalability, flexibility, and security. By using Azure cloud and integrating tools like Power Apps, Power BI, and Office 365, the company streamlined production, HR, sales, and supply chain management. The migration allowed for seamless data replication with minimal disruption and quickly enabled remote and hybrid working during the pandemic. Benefits included improved business agility, simplified administration, centralized management, better cost control, and set the stage for further digital transformation.
- Organization
- Usina Santa Adélia
- Industry
- Agriculture
- Location
- Brazil
- Published
- May 2021
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Usina Santa Adélia
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Unknown
- Linked source
- microsoft.com
No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Cloud Migration for Operational Modernization
- 2Rapid Enablement of Remote Work via Azure Cloud
- 3Integrated Analytics and Workflow Automation with Power Platform
- Legacy infrastructure limited scalability, flexibility, and security.
- Difficulty in supporting core business operations and implementing remote/hybrid work.
- Maintenance and management of on-premises systems were resource-intensive and hard to scale.
- Migrated corporate infrastructure and production systems to Microsoft Azure.
- Implemented Power Apps and Power BI for business operations and analytics.
- Enabled seamless data replication and validation through cloud agents.
- Integrated Office 365 for improved collaboration and productivity.
- Enabled remote and hybrid work rapidly during the pandemic.
- Improved scalability, flexibility, and security across the organization.
- Simplified IT administration and reduced management costs.
- Accelerated adoption of digital and mobile tools for business transformation.
Architecture
Agents deployed on source servers replicated production and business process data to Azure, enabling centralized control of production, HR, sales, and supply chain systems. Integrated with Power BI, Power Apps, and Office 365 for analytics, mobile access, and collaboration.
Sources & evidence1
- Customer explicitly identified
- Primary source available
- Technical implementation details available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026.
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- Cited source last checked Jun 1, 2026 — ok (0/1 broken).
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