As we enter another year alongside our partners and teammates at Microsoft, we reflect on and take great pride in our accomplishments and the innovative, dedicated people that help drive them forward.

It is also the time of year we look ahead to what’s next and sharpen our strategy for the next fiscal year. But, even as new technologies and tactics emerge, for AIS, a few things remain constant:

• Our Focus on Client Success: First and foremost is the success of the organizations we serve. The impact we have on our clients, their employees, and their customers are what keeps us motivated. This dedication to client success is core to the solutions we build and the problems we solve. Speed and scalability are consistent outcomes of our digital transformation strategies.

• Our Investments in Microsoft: Microsoft technology is in our DNA. As a partner since 1994, we invest in Microsoft’s vision by training our people, working with product engineering, and developing intellectual property (IP) to meet the needs of customers.

• Our People’s Passion: Our employees are passionate about cloud transformation. Passion is a key contributor to the company’s success and plays a crucial role in gathering input and analysis from a diverse set of disciplines. Just check out our blog to see the wide range of thought leadership from AIS employees.

• Our Focus on Regulated Industry Expertise: AIS has led many Microsoft firsts in Government, Financial Services, and other regulated industries. We are focused on accelerating our clients’ journey to the cloud to meet mission needs and business goals by addressing roadblocks, such as security and compliance challenges, and leveraging automation and IP for speed and scale.

Looking Ahead

We are just as excited about what is on the horizon. Microsoft closed out the end of the fiscal year 2021 with several announcements, such as:

• Increasing cross-platform synergy for apps and data (like Power BI and Azure Synapse)
• Significant investments in business applications
• Emphasis on security
• Continued focus on industry and customer success

It’s an exciting time to be a Microsoft partner! The potential results of the collective Microsoft cloud ecosystem and technology and services partners that extend these capabilities are overwhelming.

“We strive to be the most trusted Microsoft partner for technically challenging, enterprise-level cloud adoption, app modernization, and data work.” said Vishwas Lele, EVP and CTO at AIS, Microsoft MVP, and Regional Director. “Our team continues to lead first of their kind design and build solutions on Azure, Power Platform, and M365 in regulated industries. We earned the 2020 Worldwide Partner of the Year Award. We’re seeing amazing convergence across the various solution areas and look forward to driving these new capabilities into the mission space for each of our clients.”

Our Methodology

Outcomes are at the center of our approach. Whether it’s delivering 100% uptime and better performance for a mission-critical defense application or using automation to reduce manual processes and advance a business outcome for a Fortune 500 client, we always work from the outcome first.

Delivering results-based solutions means having an arsenal of skillsets that allow technology to meet the needs of users. It takes all kinds of talent, and AIS provides a range of disciplines (e.g., .NET, SharePoint, Power Platform, Data, UX, Knowledge Management, Change Management, Web Dev, and more).

We believe in multiple “deployment” models for modern, scalable, and intelligent app and data projects. This includes composite applications leveraging Microsoft 365, Dynamics, and Power Platform, with Azure at the tip of the spear.

Fostering a community that cuts across diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and skills is a significant core value at AIS.  The challenges of remote work won’t stop us from getting together, sharing best practices, and staying connected as a community! The growing demand for low code with both new and longtime SharePoint, Dynamics, and Azure customers is exciting to see. The early indicators of swift transformation these capabilities have on organizations are gaining attention from business leaders and promoting valuable thought and solution design diversity.

The AIS core values are rooted in education and knowledge share. We invest in our employee’s education with aisUniversity, boot camps, morning learning series, lunch and learns, self-directed educational materials, certification bonuses, and more. These learning opportunities allow individuals across projects and communities of interest access to new skills and approaches.

We put humans at the focal point of technology. Engagement from all corners of the business world is a sure indicator of what lies ahead with advancements in low code solutions. We’re helping business users, most of whom have no previous technical background, quickly embrace new technology and enable them to scale solutions so we can focus on solving their most challenging technology problems.

Our Investment in People and IP

An investment in people, process, and tooling is an investment in the success of our employees and the organizations they support. Last year, we built the AIS Cloud Delivery Framework (CDF). The CDF provides opinionated guidance and resources which help our clients modernize in the cloud. The CDF combines our experience executing enterprise cloud projects with the techniques presented in Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).

The CDF includes backlogs, deliverable samples, starter files, project experience write-ups, and much more. On top of this foundation, our teams continue to develop resources for business applications, cloud security/compliance, governance, data & AI, and many more.

These innovations would not be possible without the support of the AIS Cloud Acceleration Hub (HUB). The HUB is a dedicated team of AIS consultants organized to help our project teams deliver successful cloud solutions. The HUB team consolidates knowledge and experience to provide rapid research and guidance services for AIS delivery teams at no additional cost to our customers.

Critical to the AIS growth plan is our culture. We’ve added an essential role to our leadership team, VP of Culture and Employee Experience. We are proactively hiring and developing skills around emerging areas of our business (e.g., data intelligence, business applications, RPA, user experience, and knowledge management). We’re heading into the next fiscal year with a vibrant (and growing) team, and we couldn’t be more excited about what comes next.

Partnering with AIS

AIS prides itself on being one of the few Microsoft partners that consistently delivers challenging, enterprise-level work across all Microsoft cloud platforms (Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics, and Power Platform). We support the entire Microsoft cloud ecosystem.  We deliver foundational landing zones, security & governance, complex app development and modernization, and large-scale data and AI projects.

With AIS, you get consultants who offer the best possible solution. These consultants will advance your highest priority goals and objectives.

We bring 13+ years of enterprise experience on Azure, global leadership in Power Platform, and unmatched cloud adoption, security, and governance experience in highly regulated industries.

Along with this experience, our customers also get the full backing of Microsoft. Through our 26+ year partnership, AIS and Microsoft have established close relationships across product engineering, account teams, and executive leadership. This partnership offers our joint customers access to all the resources they need for digital transformation.