Summary:
This FAQ article explores how moving core organizational workloads to Azure can benefit your business and skyrocket your growth.
Question 1: Answer: Why should organizations choose Azure’s cloud services?
By moving core workloads to Azure, organizations gain a scalable, secure cloud foundation that reduces cost and complexity while unlocking new opportunities for growth. IDC research shows that, for every dollar invested in generative AI, companies are realizing a 3.7x return on investment1—an increase from 3.5x the year before.
When partners guide customers through migration and modernization with Azure, their customers unlock measurable business outcomes across three key pillars:
Maximize business agility: Execute business changes up to 78% faster2.
Unlock AI with unified data: Reduce admin time by up to 60% with fully managed Azure databases and establish a secure, open foundation for enterprise AI.
Realize best-in-class cost and performance: Achieve up to 76% savings3 running Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure compared to leading competitors. One study found a 298% ROI over three years4 with Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
Question 2: Answer: How does switching to Azure benefit you?
Cloud migration is more than shifting workloads. It removes constraints and creates conditions for transformation. Customers that migrate Windows Server and SQL Server to Azure can realize up to 76% cost savings compared to leading competitors. PostgreSQL can provide total cost of ownership savings up to 58%, while Linux environments such as Ubuntu deploy 63% faster with up to 306% ROI5 over three years.
When customers migrate and modernize with Azure, they see measurable gains in agility, cost efficiency, performance, and resilience:
BMW Group accelerated planning cycles and unlocked 10x more efficient data delivery after moving SAP to Azure, while also enabling new AI integration with SAP Joule, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Azure OpenAI.
Medigold Health improved clinician retention by 58% by migrating applications to Azure App Service and automating reporting with Azure SQL Database and Azure OpenAI.
Hastings Direct achieved 1.6x better performance and 4–5x faster policy quotes by migrating Guidewire to AVS.
A global financial services firm consolidated VMware environments on Azure with minimal disruption, benefiting from the broadest hyperscaler availability for VMware Cloud.