QuoStar is designated a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure)

Data sits at the beating heart of any business. How effectively organisations can extract insight and value from it will play a big part in determining their long-term success. It could help to drive more efficient business processes, reduced wastage and enable better-informed, strategic business decisions. Thanks to cloud-powered AI and analytics tools, more organisations than ever have access to potentially transformative, cutting-edge capabilities.

That’s why QuoStar was delighted to be recently designated a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI, to bolster our existing three Solutions Partner certifications. It means that we now hold all Microsoft Solutions Partner designations for Azure. The announcement is further proof of QuoStar’s expertise in cloud transformation and commitment to empowering clients with the best in Azure data services.

What does it mean?

Being recognised as a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI reinforces our expertise in Azure data services – enhancing client confidence that their projects are safe in QuoStar’s capable hands. Among other things, partner status denotes a high degree of skill and experience in delivering:

• Database migration to Azure, or undertaking projects to ensure clients have access to the best Azure offering possible
• Deployment and guidance on platform-native governance across Azure and inside the managed data
• Analysis of existing workloads, and extract, transform, load (ETL) operations to migrate data to cloud-based data warehouses and enable cloud-based analytics solutions
• Ongoing support and optimisation of workloads, helping clients offload performance, cost and reliability concerns
• Tailored Microsoft analytics solutions using Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks
• Client adoption of Al and Azure solutions

From strength to strength

This new Microsoft designation for QuoStar follows similar milestones last year. In May 2023 we announced the Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation. It signifies our commitment to helping clients enhance productivity and support the shift to hybrid work using Microsoft 365. Then in June the same year, QuoStar was named a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure) – highlighting our expertise in helping clients migrate their critical infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, QuoStar will continue to work hand-in-hand with clients to help them optimise their use of data – using the latest Azure-based technologies and in-depth understanding of their business requirements.

To help support these efforts, we’re currently developing a new standardised approached, aligned to Microsoft values, designed to streamline projects and improve outcomes. When complete, it will help by highlighting what methodology a client should follow to better understand how their data is used day-to-day and how they can extract maximum value from it. It will focus on things like data structuring, visibility tooling, governance and cost optimisation alongside AI.

“It is QuoStar’s ongoing investment in its people, process and products that has enabled us to  gain this Solutions Partner for Data & AI accreditation. The new skills our people continue to learn, along with QuoStar’s ‘right person, right role’ ethos, will drive the company’s enduring value for our clients.” 

– Charlie Thompson-Hill, Head of Presales and DevOps