As technology continues to reshape every industry, organizations are transforming with cloud, data, and AI—ultimately resulting in smarter operations, better outcomes, and more impactful customer experiences.
From global enterprises to fast-scaling startups, customers are putting Azure to work in powerful ways. To date, more than 26,000 customer projects have leveraged our offerings—Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate—to drive faster time to value.
Introducing Azure Accelerate
As customer cloud and AI adoption needs change, we’re evolving our offerings to match your business priorities. Today, we’re excited to introduce Azure Accelerate, a new simplified offering designed to fuel transformation with experts and investments across the cloud and AI journey. Azure Accelerate brings together the full capabilities of Azure Migrate and Modernize, Azure Innovate, and Cloud Accelerate Factory in one place to assist customers from initial planning to full implementation. With Azure Accelerate, customers can:
- Access trusted experts: The deep expertise of Azure’s specialized partner ecosystem ensures your projects launch smoothly and scale efficiently. You can also choose to augment your project by taking advantage of a new benefit within Azure Accelerate—our Cloud Accelerate Factory. Cloud Accelerate Factory provides Microsoft experts at no additional cost to deliver hands-on deployment assistance and get projects up and running on Azure faster.
- Unlock Microsoft investments: Tap into funding designed to maximize value while minimizing risk. Azure Accelerate helps reduce the costs of engagements with Microsoft investment via partner funding and Azure credits. Microsoft also invests in your long-term success by supporting the skilling of your internal teams. Empower them with free resources available on Microsoft Learn, or develop training programs tailored to your needs with a qualified partner. Azure Accelerate supports projects of all sizes, from the migration of a few servers or virtual machines to the largest initiatives, with no cap on investments.
- Succeed with comprehensive coverage: Navigate every stage of your cloud and AI journey with confidence through the robust, end-to-end support of Azure Accelerate. Start your journey with an in-depth assessment using AI-enhanced tools like Azure Migrate to gain critical insights. Design and validate new ideas in sandbox environments and then test solutions through funded pilots or proof-of-value projects before scaling. When you’re ready, start your Azure implementation by having experts build an Azure landing zone. Then, move workloads into Azure at scale following best practices for migrating or building new solutions.
The Cloud Accelerate Factory is a new benefit within Azure Accelerate and is designed to help you jumpstart your Azure projects with zero-cost deployment assistance from Microsoft experts. Through a joint delivery model with Azure partners, these experts can provide hands on deployment of over 30 Azure services using proven strategies developed across thousands of customer engagements. This benefit empowers customers to maximize their investments by offloading predictable technical tasks to our Factory team, enabling internal teams or partners to focus on the more custom and highly detailed elements of a project.
For those organizations who seek guidance and technical best practices, Azure Accelerate is backed by Azure Essentials, which brings together curated, solution-aligned guidance from proven methodologies and tools such as the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Well-Architected Framework, reference architectures, and more in a single location.
Realizing business value with Azure offerings
Here are just a few examples of how organizations are turning ambition into action:
- Modernizing for agility: Global financial leader UBS is using Azure to modernize its infrastructure, enhancing agility and resilience while laying the foundation for future innovation. This modernization has enabled UBS to respond more quickly to market and regulatory changes, while reducing operational complexity.
- Unifying data for impact: Humanitarian nonprofit Médecins Sans Frontières UK centralized its data platform using Azure SQL, Dynamics 365, and Power BI. This has resulted in streamlined reporting, faster emergency response, and improved donor engagement—all powered by timely, self-service insights.
- Scaling AI for global reach: Bayer Crop Science, in partnership with EY and Microsoft, built a generative AI assistant using Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. This natural language tool delivers real-time agronomy insights to farmers worldwide, helping unlock food productivity and accessibility at scale.
- Enhancing insights with AI: OneDigital partnered with Microsoft and Data Science Dojo through Azure Innovate to co-develop custom AI agents using Azure OpenAI and Ejento AI. This solution streamlined research, saving 1,000 person-hours annually, and enabled consultants to deliver faster, more personalized client insights, improving retention through high-impact interactions.
Get started with Azure Accelerate
Azure Accelerate is designed to fuel your cloud and AI transformation. It’s how you move faster, innovate smarter, and lead in a cloud-first, AI-powered world.
We’re excited to partner with you on this journey and can’t wait to see what you’ll build next with Azure. To get started, visit Azure Accelerate to learn more or connect with your Microsoft account team or a specialized Azure partner to plan your next steps.
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