Belinda CZ s.r.o 
support@belinda-cz.com
+420 228 887 715
en
Customer Case Study
Microsoft Azure
Industrial Manufacturing

Crane Company Enhances Imaging Capabilities with SQL Express on Windows Server 2025

At Crane, corporate citizenship—the responsibility to balance profit with the impact of our actions on the many stakeholders we engage with—lies at the heart of who we are. Our culture begins with ethics: honesty and fairness in all dealings with customers, employees, suppliers, and competitors, and it informs every leadership meeting, investor briefing, and new-hire orientation. On July 4, 1855, Crane’s founder, R.T. Crane, then in his early twenties, wrote the resolution that has guided the company for more than 150 years: “I am resolved to conduct my business in the strictest honesty and fairness; to avoid all deception and trickery; to deal fairly with both customers and competitors; to be liberal and just toward employees and to put my whole mind upon the business.

Customer: Crane Company
Country: United States
Customer size: Corporate/Enterprise
Key outcomes
40%
Page load times
Reduction achieved
30%
System reliability
Downtime reduced
Azure
Platform
Microsoft technologies

At a glance

Customer
Crane Company
Website
https://www.craneco.com
Customer size
Corporate/Enterprise
Country
United States
Industry
Industrial Manufacturing
Products and services
Microsoft Azure

BELINDA CZ s.r.o.,Crane Company, and Microsoft Azure

Crane Company, a global industrial manufacturer, faced an aging IT infrastructure and a fragmented application landscape across ERP, MES, and imaging workloads. As production volumes spiked, ERP responsiveness and data processing latency increased, risking on-time deliveries. Security, governance, and compliance needed strengthening, while the costs and complexity of maintaining disparate systems hindered innovation and speed to product development.

Crane Company achieved a 40% reduction in page load times, leading to quicker access for customers and enhancing their overall experience with Crane’s digital services.

Customer challenges

Crane Company deployed Windows Server 2025 with SQL Server, tightly integrated with Microsoft technologies. The solution delivered greater scalability, security, and manageability, modernizing Crane’s ERP, MES, and imaging workflows, and simplifying web-service deployment. It enabled faster order processing, improved production scheduling, and higher availability during peak demand, providing a unified, secure IT backbone for ERP, MES, imaging workloads, and product development initiatives.

Partner solutions

With Crane Company deployment, Crane Company achieved higher uptime and reliability during peak production, improved performance across ERP and MES, stronger security and governance, and simplified administration of a mixed workload environment. Faster order fulfillment and accelerated product development helped Crane meet growing demand while reducing operational costs and enabling scalable.

Customer benefits

The increased system reliability of 30% reduced downtime significantly, allowing Crane Company to maintain service during peak periods, thus preventing revenue loss and production delays.

Cost savings from improved resource utilization allowed Crane Company to allocate IT budgets more efficiently, enabling further investments in technology and customer service enhancements.