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My first time working with a colour .... a hue of blue
February 17, 2017

My first time working with a colour .... a hue of blue

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure

We are only just starting with our use of Azure. We started with some pilot initiatives and are looking at ways in which we can use it more extensively. Some of the pilots have been successful, others less so. Mobility seems to be a big driver, but also some of the difficult scenarios around product licensing are made better in the cloud.
  • The interface is simple and mostly intuitive.
  • Things are constantly updated and new functionality added quite often.
  • There is a lot of help available either online or through direct contact with Microsoft.
  • New features do not automatically replace old features. I see references to use the "old Azure portal" often in lab notes.
  • Not all functionality works as described. Keeping up with documentation seems to be an issue.
  • Features in the trial are not available everywhere - just from selected and biased locations - many trial components.
  • This is still a bit tough to quantify.
  • We have thoughts on how to do this, but generally, it relates to switching out of on-premises infrastructure or applications and the license/hardware cost savings.
  • The cost of support and integration with existing system integrators is significant and difficult to quantify. This has taken us at least a few months to wrap our heads around it and there are likely to be more issues in the future.
Again this is back to the level of integration within the company on a specific ecosystem, but there is also a measure of "newness" in terms of other platforms, and the amount of functionality that is available out of the box. That all said it would seem that Azure offers many of the requirements but none of them offer everything we had hoped for.
This all depends on how much you are invested into the Microsoft ecosystem already. I would say many people are already using Microsoft Office, but if you are already making use of SQL, Microsoft BI, Office 365 etc., the transition to the cloud is likely to be seamless. Other areas like SharePoint Online etc., are all great bonuses.