PAC, an IT consulting and market research firm, has published its " PAC RADAR" report on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem in France and has identified ITS Group as a "Leading Edge" service provider. This in-depth study offers a complete analysis of the IT services landscape around Azure, to facilitate the decision making of public and private organizations to choose the best partner for their migration to the cloud and the use of Azure.
Microsoft Azure is currently enjoying exceptional momentum in Europe as 71% of public IaaS/PaaS users are already using Azure or plan to do so in the next 2 years, according to PAC.
À using pre-defined criteria, RADAR PAC evaluated 28 service providers, based on a series of eight analyses of the Azure IT services ecosystem. Two of these evaluate capabilities based on geography addressed (Europe and France), two based on operational focus (Consulting & Systems Integration, Managed Services) and four based on specific technology capabilities (Infrastructure & Security, Data & AI, Application Modernization, Workplace).
The Leading Edge designation was awarded to ITS Group based on several strengths:
Recognized skills and certifications
- Azure is one of the strategic choices of ITS Group in terms of public cloud, the vast majority of certifications are delivered around this technology. The group is a Gold Partner for Azure services (Cloud Platform) and has dedicated experts (architects, developers, network & security specialists and administrators).
- A strategic focus on technology, a co-selling approach developed with Microsoft and a PaaS solution specifically designed for the health sector and certified HDS (Health Data Hosting) are differentiating and enhancing points in a very competitive environment.
A global approach for customers
Through the specializations of its subsidiaries, ITS Group delivers services around Azure taking into account all the needs:
- Delegation of experts and entire competence centers to customer sites
- Cloud hybridization and migration of workloads, or even entire information systems, to Azure
- 24×7 Managed Services delivered from a Service Center
- Continuous optimization through FinOps practices
- Modern Workplace with MS Intune EMM on customer site and/or from a Service Center
- Securing deployed services by leveraging PaaS and SaaS services available on Azure and third-party solutions
- Sales and management of Azure and M365 subscriptions
ITS Group has a global training and certification strategy, in order to allow its employees to be at the cutting edge of expertise. Indeed, the addition of services and functionalities is done at a sustained rhythm. In addition to technical mastery, it is essential to follow the evolutions on a daily basis, always with the objective of allowing customers to go faster and further in their transformations around the public cloud.
