Innovation spotlight: How 3 customers are driving change with migration to Azure SQL

By Dustin Ward

Organizations are under constant pressure to modernize their estate. Legacy infrastructure, manual processes, and increasing data volumes in silos make it harder to deliver the performance, security, and agility that today’s business landscape demands to keep pace with the competitive pressures. Continue reading to learn about how three organizations—Thomson Reuters, Hexure, and CallRevu—each jumpstarted their transformation with…

Accelerate migration and modernization with agentic AI

By Dustin Ward

Every organization has an innovation agenda. Whether it’s building AI-native applications, creating more engaging customer experiences, or unlocking new efficiencies—ambition is never the problem. But for many teams, it’s their technical debt that stands in the way. Legacy systems, outdated codebases, and fragmented infrastructure slow progress and drain resources. In fact, over 37% of application portfolios require modernization today—and that number will remain high over the…

Maximize your ROI for Azure OpenAI

By Dustin Ward

When you’re building with AI, every decision counts—especially when it comes to cost. Whether you’re just getting started or scaling enterprise-grade applications, the last thing you want is unpredictable pricing or rigid infrastructure slowing you down. Azure OpenAI is designed with that in mind: flexible enough for early experiments, powerful enough for global deployments, and…

All the Azure news you don’t want to miss from Microsoft Build 2025

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft Build, we came together to explore the next frontier: how developers will shape an agentic web. What felt different this year was gathering at a time of such exponential technological progress, making the power of community and the exchange of ideas more vital than ever. We’re reminded that in times of rapid change,…

Powering the next AI frontier with Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data portfolio 

By Dustin Ward

The emergence of an entirely new type of organization—reconstructed with AI—was uncovered in Microsoft’s latest annual Work Trend Index report. These frontier firms are building agent assistants, creating hybrid human and agent teams, and even establishing entire teams of agents directed by humans. As more organizations begin their journey to this next frontier, agents will…