Overview
Access expert help and unlock funding
- Enable AI-led transformation by infusing AI into solutions, building advanced analytics capabilities, and creating custom cloud-native applications.
Begin your journey with a funded engagement—starting with a pilot to prove Azure capabilities, then transition to building your envisioned solution in Azure. - Securely migrate and modernize Windows Server, SQL Server, Linux, Oracle, VMware, and SAP on-premises workloads to the cloud, creating a secure, AI-ready infrastructure.
Begin migrating and modernizing today with a funded engagement. Start with an assessment to understand your on-premises environment, then transition to migrating your workloads at scale.
Benefits
Accelerate your Azure journey
Successfully adopt cloud and AI with expert guidance, funding, and tools.
Jump-start your Azure projects
Get zero-cost deployment assistance for 30+ Azure services from Microsoft experts.
In-depth assessments
Get a Microsoft-funded migration and modernization assessment to better plan your project.
Optimize costs with funding and credits
Offset project costs with funding to work with specialized partners and Azure credits.
Azure Essentials
Get access to Microsoft best practices, guidance, and tools—all in one place.
Free in-depth training
Improve team competency with AI and solution-specific learning paths and technical workshops.
See how Azure partners can help
Accelerate your Azure cloud and AI adoption with funding and the help of one of 700+ specialized partners with deep expertise to implement your project successfully.
Customer stories
See how customers are successfully adopting Azure
Solutions
Explore supported solutions
E-book
Build an AI-Ready IT Estate
Learn how to prepare your infrastructure, databases, and applications for AI-powered innovation.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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- Migrating Windows Server, SQL Server, Linux, and OSS database workloads to Azure. Onboarding servers and databases to Azure Arc is also supported.
- Migrating VMware to Azure VMware Solution
- Migrating to SAP on Azure or SAP RISE
- Migrating Oracle databases and applications to Azure
- Migrating high-performance compute (HPC) workloads to Azure
- Modernizing mainframe and midrange workloads
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- Building generative AI experiences that are safe and secure
- Developing intelligent applications with Microsoft’s AI platform
- Using scalable analytics and real-time machine learning
- Migrating and modernizing legacy data with Power BI Premium and Azure Databricks
- Enhancing developer workflows with Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio
- Implementing integration solutions with Azure API Management and Logic Apps
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These offers provide:
Zero-cost assistance from Microsoft experts through Cloud Accelerate Factory to deploy 30+ Azure services
Azure credits and partner engagement funding to lower your project costs from planning to deployment
A funded migration and modernization assessment
A free sandbox environment to explore the capabilities of Azure in a pilot
AI and cloud skilling resources to help teams gain expertise and certifications
Customized optimization recommendations from tools such as Azure Migrate and Azure Advisor
Proven best practices such as Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Cloud Accelerate Factory, included with Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize, jumpstarts your projects with zero cost deployment assistance from Microsoft experts. Informed by best practices developed through thousands of engagements, Cloud Accelerate Factory can deploy 30+ Azure services alongside your Azure partner to ensure a timely, high-quality deployment—whether you’re migrating legacy databases and applications or modernizing your security, data analytics, and AI workloads.
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Both Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize take a methodical approach to every project, delivering in two phases. The planning phase may be skipped if your organization has already completed that work.
Step 1: Planning:
Build a plan for your workloads in Azure. Assess your on-premises or cloud environment, create a cloud business case, or run a proof-of-value to test a new solution.
Step 2: Deployment to Azure:
Execute your project at scale. Work with experts to create an Azure landing zone, then start migrating or building your new solution in Azure. -
There are two ways:
- Reach out to our Azure sales team for personalized guidance and insights on how to start with Azure Innovate or Azure Migrate and Modernize.
- Work with one of our specialized Azure partners, who are equipped to implement these solutions and ensure you get the most out of Azure's offerings.
Next steps
Take the next step
Tell us what you’re solving for. A Microsoft specialist will help you find the best mix of expert guidance, funding, and tools to accelerate your cloud and AI adoption.
Find a qualified partner
Work with one of our specialized Azure partners, who are equipped to implement these solutions and ensure you get the most out of Azure's offerings.
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