​Measures of user experience and engagement can be difficult to harness, but the concept of gamification in the enterprise has already started changing the mentality of IT departments by disrupting preconceptions about superficial contests and silly prizes give way to more legitimate use cases.

Accenture and Avanade are providing customers with complete end-to-end public cloud solutions, from design and delivery through operations and management – something no other service provider can offer.  

​Avanade has customers asking us for a cloud-based solution, and not all of them were really ready to buy it but were using it as a qualifying question for looking for ERP vendors.

​If your IT department is resisting the "consumerization' trend, it's in the minority. What do they know that you don't?

​Business leaders need to see through the myths surrounding the consumerization of IT and recognize that today's powerful technologies can help them create an organization that is more connected and more innovative than ever before.

What started as a buzz word describing the influx of consumer devices spilling into the enterprise around the globe, the "consumerization of IT" has developed rapidly into a very real push toward corporate efficeincy. ​

​The idea that IT professionals and business leaders are resisting the consumerization of IT and the trend of bring your own device (BYOD) to work is a myth.

​Latest global survey that examines the workplace 'digital transformation' to a more collaborative work environment with greater worker moblility.

​Nearly nine out of 10 companies are seeing employees use personal phones, tablets and computers at work — marking a sharp rise in the trend known as the “consumerization of IT,” according to a study released this morning by Avanade, the Seattle-based technology consulting company.

​The number of people who own tablet computers is increasing.

​You know you’re supposed to be on LinkedIn. You’ve read articles about how hiring managers are using it. Gotten invitations to connect from long ago colleagues you barely knew, some of them asking for recommendations. Maybe you’ve even filled out a profile.

​What keeps IT executives awake at night? Quite a bit, according to some IT professionals at Seattle-area businesses. Quotes from Avanade's Bob Bruns, VP of infrastructure services and global operations.

​"Big data" has arrived in many organizations; in others, it's coming. A discussion regarding the potential problems and issues that IT and data warehousing teams should approach with caution.

​During a recent 'bring your kids-to-work' day, kids were asked to comment on this critical new trend in business.

​By pooling their combined industry capabilities, Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are creating compelling CRM solutions for the financial services industry.

​To deliver a full range of SharePoint solutions to ICE, Dev Technology teamed with two Microsoft Gold Certified firms - Avanade Federal Services and InfoRelience.

​For a growing number of executives, the nightmare of "cloud sprawl" is quickly becoming a reality. This article provides a guide for executives to guide them through it.  Larry Beck, senior director of cloud strategy, shares tips and best practices.

Three technology shifts are converging in ways that seem likely to once again transform the role of the CIO. Story has comments from Ryan McCune, Senior Director, Global Technology and Solutions, Avanade.

​This story focuses on Avanade's Point of View on managing cloud sprawl.

​Every important new information technology follows a similar path on the journey from promising new innovation to mainstream business productivity capability.