IDC Analyst Connection report
Delivering business outcomes and business value with managed cloud services.
Manage and evolve to enable continuous value
The need to evolve your business technology has never been greater. As the world goes through change at an unprecedented rate, organisations must rethink their expectations from managed services and demand more from their provider.
Avanade managed services help you to thrive in a world of continual change by taking advantage of the latest technology innovations faster and accelerating your digital maturity to build resilience and agility.
We deliver outcomes that drive continuous business value. We help clients to manage and evolve their technology platforms, bring business and IT together and provide on demand access to market leading technology and business skills.
By managing and optimising your IT estate, we free up capacity and budgets in order to enable your organisation to spend more time focusing on higher value modernisation efforts as you evolve your IT and your business.
“With the products and features that Avanade has helped us create, the typical user saves time. Our ability to create these types of features more than doubles with Avanade. These features help to increase revenue because it helps us improve our primary product that we sell to our customers.”
Avanade Managed Services
Evolve your IT to deliver business value through resilience and agility
Analyst Report
IDC Analyst Connection report
Delivering business outcomes and business value with managed services
Analyst Report
IDC Vendor Spotlight
The business value of managed cloud services in delivering agility and resiliency
VIDEO
Evolving IT to deliver business value
IDC analysts explain what organisations need most from managed service providers.
We bring together your service experience, business value and technology evolution
Realise the business benefits of managed services
We combine 24x7 management and support with consultative services, helping organisations to evolve IT in a way that supports business strategy, blending management, modernisation and analytics to deliver outcomes that create new business value.
Strategy Design
Help clients envision new business models, enable digital transformation and develop actionable business and technology strategy
Experience Design
User-centered design experts conduct research and workshops to design meaningful, human-centered digital experiences
Solution Architecture
Deep experience in proposed foundation platform components in our solutions
Application Development
Fully integrated teams provide seamless experience across entire project lifecycle
Manage and Evolve
Managed services teams to provide long-term operations, simple service transitions and future enhancements to drive resilient growth
Our commitment to delivering business value is recognised by clients and analysts, with analyst firm IDC showcasing the benefits that have been achieved using Avanade’s Managed Services:
- Payback period 10 months. ROI: 433%
- $6.83 million additional revenue per organisation
- 50% faster application development
- 45% more efficient core IT operations
- 65% less unplanned downtime
The Smart Operations Framework
Avanade’s Smart Operations Framework combines the operational and technology blueprints that underpin Manage and Evolve. Its business-outcome focus connects service performance to your business impact.
Solutions
We offer a range of managed services anchored in the Microsoft platform, designed to accelerate your digital agenda.
Business Applications
Intelligent business applications enable industry insight to help you predict and lead.
Cloud Platform Services
Increase business agility and securely unlock the value of the Microsoft cloud.
Our managed services expertise
A powerful joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, Avanade is well positioned to help you design, run, manage and evolve your technology infrastructure, platforms and products.
- Microsoft 2022 Global Alliance SI Partner of the Year – for the 17th time
- IDC Worldwide Microsoft implementation services 2021 Leader
- IDC research shows Avanade managed services delivering an ROI of 433%, and pay for themselves in 10 just months
- One of a select group of recognised Azure Expert Managed Service Providers *Service details
- 80 locations across 24 countries.
- 15 Centers of Excellence specialising in cloud, Dynamics AX, CRM, digital marketing and more.
- Our Advanced Technology Centers consist of 23 delivery centers around the world and more than 50,000 skilled professionals.
- We have more than 60,000+ Microsoft certifications.
- We have 19 Microsoft Gold Competencies
- We have over 90 Microsoft partner awards
Evolving IT to deliver business value
Watch the video to learn what IDC identifies as the most important factors when selecting a managed services provider.
IDC Vendor Spotlight
The business value of managed cloud services in delivering agility and resiliency. Read the spotlight for an IDC perspective on Avanade.
Embrace continual change for continuous value from managed services
Learn how Avanade helps our clients focus on outcomes that deliver maximum value from managed services.
Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings
Avanade greatly reduced Marston Holdings spend on cloud services by performing a Microsoft Azure cost profiling analysis and our own unique approach.
Centrica Trading credited with an industry-first migration to the cloud
Avanade helped Centrica Energy Trading with moving its application estate from its legacy data center onto the Azure cloud.
Towergate leverages cloud to fuel real-time enterprise
New Office 365 environment deployed using Microsoft FastTrack at extraordinarily fast pace.
