Avanade: Accelerating the Digital Transformation

The early 2000s sparked a fundamental transformation for the IT businesses. The outbreak of digital technology changed the topography for many companies as it brought with it a flurry of advantages and new technicalities that were ahead of the time. Born out of this digital transformation was a company called Avanade with a drive to deliver innovative solutions and services to business across the globe using the Microsoft platform. The company blends Accenture's consulting expertise with Microsoft's scalable cloud technologies. "Since launch, we have grown phenomenally, and today we stand as one of the top joint ventures," affirms Adam Warby, CEO of Avanade.

Avanade aims to accelerate the digital transformation with their solution stable that revolves around Microsoft. The Microsoft platform is a well established, well branched that holds a multitude of benefits and Avanade use the Microsoft platform to enhance their already stellar solution range further. IT priorities predominantly shape the company's approach and based on the latest thinking about digital and cloud solutions, business applications and technology services.

Avanade is a 12-time winner of the prestigious award, Microsoft Partner of the year and holds 24,000 plus certifications in Microsoft technology, 90 plus Microsoft partner awards, and 17 Gold Competencies. With its long list of achievements, Avanade has amassed a vast clientele that extends to government agencies and organizations in banking, consumer goods and services, health, insurance, retail, and utility industries. The company's technological capabilities are numerous such as Agile, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Microsoft Azure, modern software engineering and so on. "At Avanade, we help organizations succeed in the fast-changing digital landscape," explains Adam.

With the dying trend of the traditional economics of IT with its capital-intensive infrastructure and applications, cloud solutions are the perfect replacement. Offering exceptional levels of efficiency, agility, and possessing an innovative ecosystem, cloud solutions are necessary options in digital business. The company's cloud strategy helps to change approach from the current suite of technologies and services to an organic and controlled ecosystem. Avanade's cloud solutions are delivered with a perfect blend of scalability and flexibility by including on-shore architects and off-shore developers that utilize best of breed tools and tested processes. "Powered by cloud, you can create better products and customer experiences and can reinvent productivity through integrated communications and collaborations," tells Adam.

While delivering its comprehensive solutions and services, Avanade unleashes agile, an enterprise-level capability that extends to its global delivery network, and its resources include Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and Professional Scrum Developer (PSD). The company practices agile approach to executing projects with module development that spread across different geographies.

Digital innovation is transforming how businesses operate and how people generally go about their work. Avanade helps organizations realize results in a digital world through business technology solutions and managed services that combine insight, innovation, and expertise focused on Microsoft technologies. Digital estate management, digital employee experience, digital enterprise analytics, digital marketing, digital marketing analytics, digital sales and service, and digital operations are all the digital solutions offering by the company.

Avanade has put its skills and experience to practice to solve the real-life challenges and develop cutting-edge solutions.

In one instance, the world-renowned Formula One racing organization Williams tasked Avanade to implement technology vision before three months of the 2015 calendar's first race. The company quickly assembled a team of experts that had design, development, business analysis, digital marketing, and workplace collaboration skill under their belt from its talent pool of 22,000 professionals with 24,000 certifications in Microsoft technologies. By working with Avanade and Accenture, and with leading edge Microsoft technologies, UBC developed a differentiated—and highly valued—capability that allows the company to serve its customers better and win new business.

Avanade helped another leading pharmaceutical services provider, UBC to design a new operations platform by identifying how it could be appropriately tailored and deployed within UBC, and ultimately lead the integration. The solution guided UBC employees with automated triggers based on critical-path activities, clearly defined workflows and task management tools through each stage of the patient journey. It underpinned critical activities such as reimbursement services and working with pharmacies to make sure life-saving therapies are accessible to those who need them most.

As a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, Avanade understands the power of partnerships. And as a leading digital innovator, Avanade knows the importance of collaboration to achieve success in today’s world." In addition to our alliance with Microsoft and Accenture, we partner with leading technology providers around the world, including Sitecore, Docker and Blue Prism to offer the most innovative digital solutions on the market," explains Adam.

With the digital future looming large, Avanade analyzes subtle changes in the technological landscape. The leadership of Avanade has recognized the anxiety over the acceptance of artificial intelligence, automation, and suggested clientele to train their employees in these new technologies, which ultimately accelerates the digital transformation. “There is a great opportunity in the marketplace, and we are uniquely positioned to bring clients the most experienced team and the sharpest thinking that they need to succeed,” concludes Adam.