ADVERTORIAL Microsoft BPOS: Taking Action

BPOS Advisors

When you want to plan your taxes and estate, you go to a CPA. When you want to defend yourself in court properly, you go to an attorney. And when you’re thinking about migrating your communications platform, you go to a professional advisor, such as Avanade.

more prone to accidents, the risk of data loss increases, and the organization is likely to suffer workflow disruptions.

This is why it can pay to have a trusted advisor guiding you through the conversion to a cloud model. In fact, a good advisor may even tell you when a cloud model isn’t right for your company. Again, one size does not fit all.

In casting about for a BPOS advisor to profile, Avanade quickly emerged as a logical choice. The firm, founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, is the largest IT consultancy in the world solely focused on the Microsoft platform, including products such as Microsoft CRM and Dynamics AX. The company has resources around the world, but its BPOS efforts are focused in North America—predictably, since BPOS has been available in the U.S. since late last year but overseas only very recently. Avanade’s activities span across application development and outsourcing, as well as infrastructure outsourcing and support. Essentially, when a company needs to make a significant IT move, Avanade is one expert that can offer valuable advice and provide the oversight to make the transition happen smoothly.

Check out our Microsoft BPOS Resource Center