Strategic Partner

Microsoft

Transform your environment with AHEAD and Microsoft. Our battle-tested prescriptive frameworks, accelerators, and client portals are designed to drive relentless automation – not just for better business operations, but for improved user experience, adoption, and productivity.


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AHEAD Earns All Available Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations

Achievement places AHEAD among elite group of US organizations that have earned strategic mix of Microsoft designations

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Accelerate the impact of your Azure migration & modernization

Investing in the cloud alongside your on-prem data centers accelerates innovation and increases the speed and agility of your business. AHEAD and Microsoft partner together to drive the necessary transformation and accelerate your migration and modernization programs.

  • 01.

    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
  • 02.

    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
  • 03.

    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

  • Infrastructure & Database Migration
  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Modernize Endpoints
  • Threat Protection
  • Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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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
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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

Industry solutions

  • 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

  • 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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Let’s Discuss Your Transformation Journey

Schedule a 30 minute intro meeting so we can understand your goals.

We’ll talk about:

  • Your progress toward digital transformation
  • Custom solutions to drive business impact
  • Where AI fits into your IT strategy
  • What success – and excellence – looks like

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