The company found in the cloud the possibility of modernizing its technology infrastructure also installed a platform that provided peace of mind for remote work during the pandemic What was driven by security was gradually becoming a digital transformation by the possibilities generated by Azure Usina Santa Adélia is a traditional agricultural company it has two plants in the cities of Jaboticabal and Pereira Barreto – both in the state of São Paulo the production capacity of the company's two units was 137,000 tons of sugar and the sale of 58.8 MWh per ton of exported sugarcane energy Total milling was 5.8 million tons of sugarcane Usina Santa Adélia has been undergoing a modernization process adapting family management to an outlook focused on professionalization and the market the company began reviewing its technology infrastructure undergoing a review of application architecture with the intention of bringing robustness and agility to the company's internal processes The company's calendar is divided between the off-season period between November and March when the raw material is planted and preventive maintenance of the industrial plant is performed when the plant operates 24 hours a day and seven days a week "It is a just-in-time process because sugarcane is very perishable and loses quality if cut and unprocessed it was time to review the company's on-premises data center "This opportunity has come up to look at other scenarios That's when the partnership with SGA came in which did an analysis of our environment and came up with the proposal to migrate to the Microsoft Cloud," Carlos says After conducting a series of studies analyzing scenarios, risks, and advantages, with the approval of the board, the company found Microsoft Azure to be a safe environment for migration The decision was made in September 2019; over the next two months there was a process of preparing the environment and the implementation took place in March 2020 The architecture covers the entire corporate process: in addition to the system required to maintain production it supports the management of the payment of employees "The implementation was well planned and took place without the need for re-installations: they deployed the agent on the source server which replicated the data to the cloud destination server and it was already possible to do all the validation of the environment," Carlos analyzes Usina Santa Adélia gained the availability Internal team familiarity with Microsoft products was also a favorable factor explains that safety was the centerpiece of project design and other issues such as flexibility and economics also integrated thinking it was essential that it allowed the company to think ahead "We are focused on infrastructure modernization Usina Santa Adélia is now able to adopt other technologies and look to the future," he explains Cloud infrastructure has also brought a potential for integration, connecting other tools in use at Usina Santa Adélia, such as Power BI, Power Apps, and Office 365 integration with the tools: all of this creates a more productive and efficient work dynamic," says Carlos This potential was evident when the pandemic generated restrictive social measures aimed at containing the problem it took a few weeks to implement the platform and ensure remote work of the administrative team as the company is classified as an essential service "We wanted a performance environment that was simple to use and with little traumatic twist The company was able to work with these teams remotely using the cloud environment and much of the success is that this deployment looked a lot at the user experience we would certainly have been much more impacted in terms of employee experience," Carlos celebrates Carlos assesses that the solution brought a number of benefits to Usina Santa Adélia and gave peace of mind to operate at full steam "We have been able to improve the level of service and ensure the availability agreed with our company as well as make the performance environment with centralized and simplified management," he comments He also evaluates cost management in the cloud as positive and can provision a space with much more flexibility than would be possible in an on-premises environment as well as the possibility of developing applications in the system "What motivated the migration was not digital transformation but the good experience we had with this environment led us to pull other fronts to digital transformation then focused on processes with more mobile tools We are very happy with the path we are taking now and the cloud is certainly a big driver of that," he concludes “We have been able to improve the level of service and ensure the availability agreed with our company with centralized and simplified management.” We are Microsoft Empowering others Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more To Listen to this News click on the button below the image Sugar prices in Brazil near the lowest levels in a decade and also affected the sugar mills which forced millers to either close or lie dormant to minimize costs In order to cut costs and boost efficiency Brazil sugar and ethanol producer Usina Santa Adelia will close one of its three mills in Sao Paulo state The company said it would conclude operations after next year’s crop at the Pioneiros mill in the municipality of Sud Mennucci where it said that cane crushing volume will be maintained leading to significant scale gains and simpler logistics Sugar mills in the country scrapped plans to boost sugar production this year reverting to a heavy focus on ethanol as it will give them more profits and website in this browser for the next time I comment A river of caramel is threatening to engulf a Brazilian town after a warehouse fire melted more than 30,000 tonnes of sugar Firefighters were today still battling to control the blaze 70 hours after it started at the industrial site in Santa Adelia Hundreds of locals have already been moved from their houses into hotels for fear of being engulfed in the sugary substance - with others barricading their doors with sandbags and earth The free-flowing caramel is also believed to have contaminated a local river - with dead fish appearing as far as five miles from the blaze However, workers' efforts to stop the caramel from spreading have been hampered by the fact it is thick and cannot be siphoned off like water, police told G1. 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After spending time working on advancing his career in Miami Beach, Xavier relocated to Newton, MA, and now resides in Dover, where he presented a solo exhibition called “The Colors of Life.” Visitors at Fabio Xavier’s exhibition ‘The Colors of Life’ admire ‘No Limit.’ The exhibition on November 30 at the Dover Church invited all Dover residents and art appreciators to view Xavier’s work, which contains both fine arts and contemporary pieces. In the church’s Kraft Hall, colorful portraits and paintings of mandalas greeted the visitors. In front of a splotchy green, yellow, and orange background, inspirational Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was painted in a traditional portrait style – from the shoulders up. Aside from the massive size of the canvas portrait, the bold details of the pattern on Kahlo’s shirt and the flowers in her hair, along with the pleasant sanguine color of her lips, attracted viewers to the piece. “Orchidea” displayed a beautiful contrast of colors as pure, white orchid blossoms bloomed across the canvas with a rainbow of colors behind it. Xavier’s work also tends to lean more towards abstract art, as seen in his mandala paintings. While the mandala pieces look busy upon first glance, one must remember that Xavier created the beautiful blends of colors, shapes, and lines from a once-white canvas. Having started fluid art only months ago, Fabio Xavier appears to have already mastered the acrylic and resin fluid painting. All of the pieces at Xavier’s exhibition were for sale, and while many of the more intricate paintings came with a heftier price tag, the artist offered quite a few nature-inspired landscapes for those seeking to own an authentic Fabio Xavier painting. Such pieces featured pink and yellow wildflowers, waterfront views, and Xavier’s efforts to capture a stormy sky. One of Fabio Xavier’s mandala paintings that shows the hours of detail that went into creating the painting Visitors were also fascinated by Xavier’s fluid painting which combines acrylic and resin on canvas Inspired by a fluid artist named Crystal Ma Xavier began experimenting with fluid art only a few months ago one would never know he is new to the style Bringing a range of painting skills and a keen eye for detail to his work local artist Fabio Xavier wowed the community and established his passion for art View all posts by: 1 min readPublished 29 October 2013 1:26pm ShareGet SBS News daily and direct to your InboxSign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.Your email address *Morning (Mon–Fri) Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors A light magnitude 3.3 earthquake hit 21 km (13 mi) away from Catanduva, Sao Paulo,  Brazil The depth of the quake could not be determined but is assumed to be shallow.The quake was felt widely in the area.