Gartner Market Guide for Microsoft 365 Implementation and Support Services
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With a saturated market for Microsoft 365 service vendors, it can be difficult to choose the right partner with the right set of skills to help you take full advantage of the Microsoft suite. Read the Gartner Market Guide for Microsoft 365 Implementation and Support Services to help you identify where certain service providers stand out.
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Modernize Hybrid Platforms with Azure & Azure Stack
- Establish a Hybrid Cloud Operating Model with Azure and Azure Stack
- Rapidly assess workloads to determine the best migration target
- Accelerate with our Migration & Modernization factory to both Azure and Azure Stack
Modernize Workloads
- Transform workloads to take advantage of the latest platform features available in Azure
- Refactor applications to improve performance, scalability, and resilience, ensuring they can handle increased demand and provide a seamless user experience
- Optimize cost of cloud applications by implementing efficient resource allocation and adopting best practices for cost-effective cloud usage
Modernize Teams
- Gain the necessary skills via Enterprise Skills Initiative
- Embrace platform engineering and empower the business
- Relentlessly automate services deployment and day 2 operations
AHEAD + MICROSOFT DIFFERENTIATORS
Advanced Specializations
- Infrastructure & Database Migration
- Azure VMware Solution
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Modernize Endpoints
- Threat Protection
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Technical Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- DevOps Engineer Expert
- Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
- Azure Data Engineer
- Power Platform Solutions Architect
- Azure Database Administrator
- M365 Enterprise Administrator Expert
- Azure Security Engineer
- Microsoft Security Ops Analyst
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- Qualifying purchases reduce Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment
- Dedicated Cloud Marketplace team for seamless transactions
- Strong ties with the Azure Marketplace team
- Expertise and ISV partnerships for Marketplace transactions
WHY AHEAD FOR MICROSOFT
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Advise
- Consulting and advisory services to ensure Microsoft services and offerings are a good fit for your business, including FinOps and financial consulting
- Deep expertise in enterprise architecture and governance, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud approaches, software-defined infrastructure, configuration management, service management, and endpoint security
- Strategic planning and integration for multiple domains and disparate systems with the right platforms to drive business forward
02
Transform
- Making environments more intelligent with platform engineering, AI, analytics, and integration expertise
- AHEAD Accelerate Team with flexible engineering teams deliver tailored outcomes proven to enhance business operations
- Proprietary observability tools to create a continuous feedback loop about how the environment is operating and to drill into areas of improvement, such as anomaly detection, network mapping, and event correlation processes
- Centralized control for the creation and automation of standard change processes to bring efficiency, predictability, and uniformity to outcomes
03
Operate
- Self-service portal experiences to drive standardization and automation and increase productivity
- Enhanced developer and data experience to improve usage and reduce shelfware
- Deep Microsoft relationships and a culture of knowledge transfer as part of managed services to improve operational efficiency, enable scale, and achieve faster return on objectives
MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS FROM AHEAD
01
Infrastructure
- Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop
- Infrastructure & Database Migration
- Azure Landing Zone
- Azure Native Services
- Windows Server
02
Digital & App Innovation
- Advanced Migration Assessment
- Modernization to Azure PaaS
- Azure VMware Solution
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Power Platform
03
Data & AI
- Data Strategy, Migration, Governance
- Data Science – ML Platforms
- Azure OpenAI
- Copilot
04
Modern Work
- Microsoft 365
- Modernize Endpoints
- SharePoint & OneDrive
- Teams & Teams Calling
- Endpoint Management (Intune & SCCM)
05
Security
- Threat Protection
- Microsoft Security Jumpstart
- Microsoft Defender Products & Services
- Advanced Microsoft Security 365 (E3, E5, M365 Advanced Security)
- Identity & Access Management: Entra ID product suite
MICROSOFT CLIENT STORIES
GALIC
Building and Managing IT Infrastructure to Help a New Corporate Spinoff Thrive
Sports Technology Firm
FinOps-as-a-Service Delivers Significant Cost Savings via Cloud Optimizations
Large Midwestern Energy Services Firm
Cloud-native Data Capabilities Unlock New Usage Forecasting and Investment Insights
Large Midwestern Health Insurer
Repairing, Optimizing and Migrating Huge Datasets to the Cloud to Unleash New Capabilities
INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS
Healthcare
- AI platforms to enhance patient care, diagnosis, and operations
- Epic infrastructure optimization on Azure
- Cloud-based precision medicine/genomics
- Standardized user experience for clinicians
- EHR-integrated image management solutions
- Security modernization for healthcare
- Digital huddleboard for collaborative care
- Cloud acceleration: landing zones and migration
- Digital front door development and architecture
Financial Services
- AI-driven virtual assistants to enhance customer service
- Threat prevention assessments and long-term security roadmap
- Azure foundations design and deployment
- Copilot preparedness assessment and architecture workshops
- Streamlined application migration for secure banking services
- Modernization for AI-enabled real-time transactional analysis
- Digital transformation to new tools and platforms
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