Item: Microsoft Azure
Rating: 9
Author: Stefan Lechner

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure is used across the whole orga. It's been a strategic decision to hop on cloud services, to be more flexible and modern.

Pros and Cons

PAAS and SAAS services
deployment
stability
usability

networking is some times a bit complicated

Return on Investment

capex turned to opex
migration costs can be very high and prolong the time until you get your roi

Mainly everything that is needed can be provided with azure and there multiple options to modernize our companys applications and infrastructure. Azure helps us to reduce the workload for our administrators by offering managed sevices and helps them to concentrate on other important topics.

Key Insights

Do you think Microsoft Azure delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Azure's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Azure live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Azure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Azure again?

Yes

Usability

There are just some minor problems. Mainly the implementation of a landing zone and the network configuraton can by tricky.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to modernize your company's infrastructure and applications - very good. As well as if you want to create new applications that help the business to create new products.
In case you do it because it could be cheaper - leave it - most times you first have to spend money to be able to save some money in the future.

You do get what you pay for - if you want to

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure