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The Revenue and Growth Opportunities for Microsoft Azure Partners A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Microsoft

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Learn how to accelerate your growth, reduce costs, and get the most value from Azure and Microsoft as a technology partner.

In this study from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Microsoft, you’ll learn how Azure has helped technology companies reach more customers, improve their agility, and go to market faster. You’ll also see how Azure enables software vendors to enter new markets and get exposure to the 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies that already use Azure. Plus, you’ll learn about the best practices that helped those partners succeed.

For this study, Forrester interviewed Azure partners of varying sizes around the world. Read about how these partners used Azure to:

  • Close deals that are up to 100 percent larger in revenue than their average contract value.
  • Increase the size of deal flow pipelines by 50 to 100 percent on average.
  • Bring in more revenue from expected follow-on services.
  • Boost license annual recurring revenue by 10 percent as customers see more value from specialized Azure services.
  • Build, sell, and market solutions that increased IP margins by 5 percent.
  • Sell faster and reach customers in new markets through Azure Marketplace.

Download the study to discover the lessons that were learned, explore the most important market factors driving partners’ growth, and get advice from your peers who continue to scale their businesses with Microsoft.

Building Together in the Cloud

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Learn how technology partners are innovating and expanding with Azure—and get insights on how to help your company do the same by becoming a Microsoft partner.

Read the e-book, Building Together in the Cloud, to explore how five Azure technology partners have helped their customers embrace remote work, transform patient care, automate and secure remote quality inspection, and synchronize supply chains—all by partnering with Azure.

Learn how to:

  • Lower your operating costs, improve security and compliance, and increase agility.
  • Grow your business by taking advantage of the growing demand for Azure-based solutions.
  • Reach new customers around the world by connecting with 4 million monthly users in Azure Marketplace.

Critical Success Factors for Data Lake Architecture

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The data lake has come a long way.

It is a well-estab­lished design pattern and data architecture for profound applications in data warehousing, reporting, data science, and advanced analytics.

Over the years, users’ expectations, best practices, and business use cases for the data lake have evolved, as have the available data platforms upon which a data lake may be deployed. This evolution is forcing changes in how data lakes are designed, architected, and deployed.

This checklist by TDWI (Transforming Data With Intelligence) and sponsored by Snowflake covers:

  • The many issues, design patterns, and best practices of data architectures with a focus on modernization
  • Practical use cases—in analytics and elsewhere—that a well-constructed data lake architecture can support and nurture
  • The types of data platforms and tools that commonly go into such architectures
  • Why you should expect your data lake to evolve to the cloud

Cloud: Your Force for Transformation

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Cloud is a critical component of Digital Transformation success. But a cloud migration demands strategic planning and careful management. Discover how to build a cloud  transition strategy around business objectives, and how to manage and leverage data for insights.

Cloud migration simplified

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Help your organisation improve cost-efficiency, agility and scalability by migrating to the cloud. Use this guide to help with planning and implementing your end-to-end cloud migration strategy.

Read this e-book to get guidance on how to:

  • Define your business justification for cloud migration and create an initial plan.
  • Choose which workloads get moved to the cloud first.
  • Get resources to help your team build their cloud skills.
  • Explore migration methodology and deeper learning documentation.
  • Make the most of your investment and help keep it secure with cloud governance and management resources.