If the services you offer rely on bespoke applications, transitioning to a Platform as a Service approach could really boost your agility and competitive advantage.

Using Azure, Microsoft's highly flexible, cost-effective and reliable PaaS technology, Avanade can help you to create cloud-based solutions so you can develop, test and run your own customized applications without the worry of managing hardware, licences, upgrades and more. Virtually all tasks are automated to a level not possible within the traditional datacenter, so you'll work more efficiently than ever.

Typical PaaS benefits include

• Time-to-market
  Development and testing speed is vastly accelerated, slashing deployment time for new applications and services.
• Agility
  PaaS increases your responsiveness to changing market conditions, so you can capitalize on new opportunities faster.
• Capacity on demand
  Reduce risk by starting small and quickly scaling up, or throttling back, on demand.
• Flexible pay-per-use model
  Dramatically reduces the cost of supporting unused capacity in the datacenter, including expensive hardware, and powering, cooling, running and managing the network.
• Less budget pressure
  No need to buy hardware so you can shift from capital costs to operational expenditure.

Our PaaS approach keeps your business objectives at the fore

Developing a successful, future-proof Platform as a Service means putting your business objectives first. We'll help you visualize cloud in your organization, build a roadmap and identify how PaaS will help you realize the results you want.

Our proven 3-step process ensures this always happens, either for a business application, or indeed for any portion of it.

1. Application Migration
   Our applications and workloads review tells us which are ripe for the cloud. Our Proof of Concept tests functionality or technical feasibility and mitigates risk before building or migrating an application.
2. Application Development
   We can partner with you to develop new applications or migrate them from 'legacy' environments to generate a low-cost, low-touch cloud environment.
3. Application Management
   We'll help you manage or outsource applications across on-premise and cloud environments to reduce operational costs.

Want a fast transition?
We've created the Azure Factory to do just that. It's a team of 265 trained PaaS specialists with over 170,000 hours of Azure development experience. To industrialize and speed the delivery of your solution, they work with 15 proven Azure-specific assets and accelerators to get you online fast. Today, they're working on some 20 production projects for global clients.