Royalty collecting society, PRS for Music processed over six trillion uses of its members' music last year.
Chief executive Robert Ashcroft reported the figure in a new case study by Microsoft, which explores how the organisation handles data and ensures accurate royalty payments by using the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service.
The society – which represents the rights of more than 125,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members – paid out over half a billion pounds to rights-holders in 2016 for over 22 million works.
According to the Microsoft case study, it uses Azure Data Lakes and Azure Data Warehouses to 'accurately understand, analyse and get the right data to the right people to make payments.'
Steven Peters, head of business intelligence at PRS for Music said: 'With Azure Cloud we are able to scale up very quickly when we need it and then [when] we don’t, scale down. That allows us to be able to manage the cost profile based on the demands of our members.'
Commenting on the speed and scale at which PRS for Music is able to operate, Ashcroft added: 'It used to take us 20 days to load and match a Spotify file, now we’re down to 11 minutes. That’s the power of the Cloud.'
Chief executive Robert Ashcroft reported the figure in a new case study by Microsoft, which explores how the organisation handles data and ensures accurate royalty payments by using the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service.
The society – which represents the rights of more than 125,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members – paid out over half a billion pounds to rights-holders in 2016 for over 22 million works.
According to the Microsoft case study, it uses Azure Data Lakes and Azure Data Warehouses to 'accurately understand, analyse and get the right data to the right people to make payments.'
Steven Peters, head of business intelligence at PRS for Music said: 'With Azure Cloud we are able to scale up very quickly when we need it and then [when] we don’t, scale down. That allows us to be able to manage the cost profile based on the demands of our members.'
Commenting on the speed and scale at which PRS for Music is able to operate, Ashcroft added: 'It used to take us 20 days to load and match a Spotify file, now we’re down to 11 minutes. That’s the power of the Cloud.'
