April 20, 2012
Outsourcing IT for Competitive Advantage
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With the rise of new technologies, improved processes and advanced skill sets required in the marketplace, corporations are needing and expecting their incumbent service provider to focus their efforts in two areas; business and process innovation. A sea-change is happening around cloud, collaboration and consumeration of IT areas of our clients businesses and Avanade’s innovation experience and expertise will help in driving this change.
October 28, 2011
Why the Delivery Approach Matters for IT Initiatives
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The rise of technology change and economic uncertainty have led businesses to demand more of IT service providers: speed-to-value, business and technical insight, optimal cost, and reduced risk—all while maintaining consistently high-quality results. Avanade’s delivery approach does just that through our people, our collaborative culture and our investment in proven delivery methods and tools.
September 01, 2011
The Challenge of Big Data: Turning Data into Knowledge and then Putting it to Work
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This paper explores the explosion of data, and how organizations can turn data into knowledge and put knowledge to work. Having a data strategy that enables staff to get to the right data, meaningful data, when they need it, and are able to take action on the data is when data becomes a valuable corporate asset.
June 07, 2011
Point of View: Is there a right time to move to the cloud?
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Cloud computing isn’t an all-or-nothing strategy; it’s a journey, not a destination, and where you start and stop on that journey should be defined by your organizational objectives. Avanade shares how to best spot opportunities to move to the cloud while making the most of your investments.
June 07, 2011
Point of View: Choose your cloud
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Cloud computing’s core business benefits can be achieved via several paths and there’s debate about which is the best route to take; a public cloud, a private cloud, or a hybrid solution that incorporates the best of both? Avanade shines light on the relative merits of each option to help you get the cloud the way you want it.
June 07, 2011
Point of View: How deep should your cloud strategy go?
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Avanade’s Cloud Strategy provides a tried and tested framework for evaluating which applications should be delivered through which cloud approach. The result is a repeatable and prescriptive guide for assessing each application in your portfolio and deciding which should be provisioned via the cloud and how.
April 01, 2011
Point of View: Professional Services organizations get a clear view of project and service tasks with Microsoft Dynamics AX
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This Point of View highlights how you can get a clearer view
of your organization using an ERP solution based on Microsoft
Dynamics™ AX. It provides a proven method to deliver the
accurate, timely information that enables more effective
management and control over projects and service tasks.
February 09, 2011
Avanade expert delivers session on principles of social computing at 2011 Microsoft SharePoint Technology Conference
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Tim Smith, Information Management expert, outlines a simple methodology for companies seeking to take advantage of experts within the company, regardless of location, to solve business problems, collaborate on projects and enable greater productivity. This session covers Avanade’s Expert Source solution based on SharePoint 2010, which leverages social computing capabilities to create a collaborative environment.
January 03, 2011
2011 Avanade Technology Trends Outlook
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Avanade releases its 2011 Technology Trends Outlook, tracking key trends driving business performance and competitive advantage. In this brief paper and accompanying video, Avanade explores trends including cloud services, collaboration, Big Data and user experience.
September 23, 2010
Avanade delivers on Windows Phone 7 operating system with hospitality industry demonstration
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Hospitality industry leaders know that the key to success in this competitive business is delivering an unparalleled customer experience. Avanade, Accenture and Microsoft offers hospitality industry a new set of solutions designed to deliver a seamless customer experience.
- Guest-centric. By providing a new level of service over any smart device
- Brand-centric. Enabling new brands faster and more efficiently across multiple properties
- Owner-centric. Dashboards and real-time snapshots of the business that can be delivered independent of location or device
- Profit-centric. A true focus on income opportunities built into the software to optimize revenue, incremental income and upsell strategies
July 20, 2010
Point of View: Transform to perform: Reconsidering application management outsourcing
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For companies under pressure to cut costs while maintaining essential business services, Avanade can help. Outsourcing the management of your Microsoft® application portfolio to Avanade under a long-term, service level–based agreement can drastically reduce your operating costs. Avanade’s combination of highly competitive off-shore capabilities and productivity improvements enabled by the Avanade Global Delivery Network processes can help organizations meet the challenges in today’s business climate.
June 15, 2010
Accelerating Business Value with Collaboration
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In the global marketplace, businesses, customers and employees are publishing and consuming vast amount of information. According to the Harvard Business Review, there was more data generated in 2009 by individuals than in all of human history through 2008.
People who discover, share and increase the value of that information put their businesses ahead of their competitors. Such information has the power to accelerate innovation, move products to market more quickly and enable employees to find it easier to collaborate and share information where and when they need to do so.
June 15, 2010
Video: The Power of Choice, A Cloud Computing Perspective with Gavin Williams, Avanade Europe
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In this video learn how Avanade deploys online services to liberate companies with big budget challenges who want to explore new ways of working.
January 14, 2010
Server Virtualization: A Step Toward Cost Efficiency and Business Agility
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Executives must constantly re-evaluate and assess their strategies for cost reduction, efficiencies, business agility, faster deployment, and disaster recovery and business continuity. Virtualization offers a first-step solution to the cost equation that arises when technology contends with space. The benefits of virtualization are real. But so are the risks. This paper explores what to expect—and what to avoid.
 virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations through 2012 …
January 14, 2010
Understanding the Potential of Microsoft Online Services
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Business communications, collaboration and productivity represent important elements to addressing today’s cloud computing landscape for enterprise IT service needs. Microsoft Online Services support offers the opportunity for an optimized workplace, especially the Business Productivity Online Suite, or BPOS. BPOS represents Microsoft’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) communications and collaboration offering to the market. Find out why here.
December 21, 2009
An enterprise view of migrating to Windows 7: A CIO’s guide to stepping off the rollercoaster
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This paper walks through an enterprise view of migrating to Windows 7. By taking a strategic, business-aligned approach, enterprises can transition faster, at a lower cost and be better positioned for the future.
September 08, 2009
Windows 7: The impact on enterprises
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Like a mature garden that has become overgrown and untidy, it needed more than a bit of weeding. XP needed to be dug up and re-laid. With Vista, Microsoft brought in the landscapers to put down new paths, build new fences and create new beds and features to make it a nice, rich experience. Windows 7 extends Vista with new features, but compared with Vista its scope is more limited.
So how should enterprises respond?
August 27, 2009
A practical guide to Cloud Computing security
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More so than other types of hosted environments, when it comes to the cloud, companies worry about the “S” word: Security. There are three important things you need to know about cloud security and this paper will explain.
July 06, 2009
Getting Started with Collaboration Services in the Cloud
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We conduct business in an age of quick, effective and efficient communications. Collaboration can mean the difference between success and failure. For rank and file employees, it might mean simply having the tools to enable faster communication. For professionals, it might mean immediate access to essential people to manage a strategic project or client requirement. For companies, it might mean having business units, separated by continents, engaging in a planning session via video web conferencing without the need for travel.
June 01, 2009
Dynamic Computing: Driving Savings and Agility in a Post Credit Crunch World
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Dynamic computing will become critical to organizations competing in the global arena that faces the worst economic contradiction in decades and where flexible cost rates rule. Dynamic computing, which allows an IT platform to be used as needed, becomes attractive because it’s flexible, agile, and scalable. That makes it an efficient model that an organization can use to unleash its business through IT capability. It also offers many of the benefits of cloud computing within an organization. It can be an end in itself, or a preparation step, toward outsourcing to the cloud. To read Avanade's complete Point of View on Dynamic Computing, please register to download below.
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