Azure and SQL Server helping EventNook deliver self-service event promotion and ticketing

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Creating your own mobile-friendly event ticketing or registration site has never been easier than with Microsoft BizSpark’s EventNook.

Planning and promoting events is no longer difficult, costly, or time consuming thanks to Kyaw Lin Oo’s EventNook. An online software as a service (SAAS) platform, EventNook provides self-service online event registration and event ticketing platform for event organizers. The product enables companies or individuals easily create an event website, registration form and ticketing capability in minutes. EventNook helps companies invite guests, promote their event micro-site via social media, and create discount codes for tactical promotions while providing a real-time dashboard enabling the company to track and manage registration and ticket sales on the go.

Hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, and developed with Visual Studio, EventNook employs Microsoft’s SQL server to help build mission-critical applications using high-performance, in-memory technology across OLTP, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics.

EventNook’s use of Microsoft tools has been an integral part of their success according to CEO Kyaw Lin Oo. “Microsoft BizSpark is an awesome program which helps us tremendously for the software and cloud services we need” says Lin Oo.   

Next time you or your company is planning an event let EventNook make the process cheap and painless.

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About BizSpark: Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps startups succeed by giving free access to Microsoft Azure cloud services, software and support. BizSpark members receive up to $750 per month of free Microsoft Azure cloud services for 3 years: that’s $150 per month each for up to 5 developers. Azure works with Linux and open-source technologies such as Ruby, Python, Java and PHP. BizSpark is available to startups that are privately held, less than 5-years-old and earn less than $1M in annual revenue.