Cloud platforms enable businesses to build their infrastructure without the need to host their server and hardware. It is therefore a modern solution that enables businesses to grow and expand. Further, it is also a scalable service that removes the need to purchase expensive hardware, server space, and additional internet bandwidth.

And, one of these popular tools today includes Microsoft Azure. It helps stables of the tech behemoth, which brings forth the potential to completely transform businesses. And, of course, Azure delivers on its promise in myriad ways. It was from helping companies to be better prepared to scale operations.

Microsoft Azure offers a pool of computing resources that allow hosting nearly every part of your site. It is a powerful tool for any business in the cloud. Azure allows companies to build, manage, and deploy custom web applications. This is while using the tools and frameworks they’re most comfortable with. But migrating business-critical applications could be daunting since most businesses couldn’t afford downtime in those areas.

This would cover your web server, email server, databases, file storage, virtual machines, user directories, and more.

Now, let us take a closer look at some of the other benefits businesses stand to gain when they migrate to Microsoft Azure:

  1. Improved decision-making: Given the virtual deluge of data at one’s disposal and evolving customer preferences, informed decision-making has been rendered critical to the success of any business today. Microsoft Azure can lend quality assistance with rock-solid decision-making as well via various tools, such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, etc. to collate, organize, and analyze data that can then be used to glean meaningful insights.
  2. Better customer engagement: A key aspect of ensuring a business's success is sales as well as customer loyalty. While this can be challenging to achieve, Azure strives to make things easier in this department via its application analytics tool that helps collect data about the app’s personalization, usefulness, etc. and also gauge overall application performance. Furthermore, Azure’s intelligent cloud enables all of this data to be synced and linked together to make sure that companies have a bird’s eye view of their customer's journey and the scope for improvement.
  3. Supercharged Sales: Sales are fundamental to any company’s well-being and growth. Azure can help in this regard as well, providing critical data and insights that help sales teams not only identify potential leads but also win their business. This mighty Microsoft tool also offers tools for real-time reports, customer relationship management (CRM), and project management to ensure better data access, thriving customer relationships, and improved employee performance.
  4. Enhanced marketing: Marketing is decidedly a tricky endeavor and a resource-intensive undertaking, necessitating various skills, collaterals, precise timing, etc. to be as effective as needed. With Azure, this becomes much simpler to ensure since marketing teams gain the ability to quickly build new web apps for campaigns, subject assets to A/B testing, and keep a track of, well, everything via Azure’s advanced analytics.

As you can see ladies and gentlemen, Microsoft Azure stands to benefit companies in myriad ways. Starting from helping organizations to create and deploy customized web apps to ensuring their seamless management, Microsoft Azure can lend quality assistance through the means of distinctive top-notch tools and frameworks. However, one must take care to not dive into the migrating process head-first; i.e. it is imperative to adopt a well-thought-out strategy, especially when migrating business-critical apps.

And if the process seems a tad daunting, you can also look for a trusted Microsoft Azure data analytics consulting services provider to assist with the process. Their skills and expertise will help you navigate the process with ease and avoid downtime.

Author's Bio: 

Kaushal Shah manages digital marketing communications for the enterprise technology services provided by Rishabh Software.