Modernize and construct clever apps with Microsoft Azure options

AI transformation drives vital enterprise worth, as a recent study of over 2000 enterprise leaders and decision-makers discovered: 

• For each USD1 an organization invests in AI, it realizes a mean return of USD3.50.
• Organizations notice a return on their AI investments inside 14 months.
• 92% of AI deployments take 12 months or much less. 
• 71% of respondents say their corporations are already utilizing AI.  

Clearly, we’re witnessing fast growth of AI whereby organizations globally are unlocking productiveness inside their companies, but additionally bending the curve on innovation by constructing on an open AI platform and companion ecosystem. These organizations are partaking Microsoft consultants to construct differentiated, clever functions and modernize current, business-critical functions. These clever functions use real-time and historic knowledge to ship customized and adaptable digital experiences with significant outcomes, that shut the hole between the person’s present state and the specified consequence. New or modernized, when constructed on Microsoft Azure, these functions profit from one of many largest interconnected networks on the planet, excessive availability, and trusted safety and compliance.  

Azure brings collectively capabilities for contemporary app improvement, cloud-scale knowledge, and main generative AI in a single place. Clients see nice worth utilizing these providers collectively. In a latest Forrester Whole Financial Impression of Microsoft Azure App Innovation report, prospects have been capable of acquire vital time financial savings of 1 to 1 and a half months when delivering new functions to the market, improve developer effectivity as much as 25%, and cut back app downtime as much as 25%. This results in compelling enterprise advantages resembling beating opponents within the innovation race, capturing incremental income, minimizing misplaced income and fines from downtime, and rising the engagement and retention of key expertise.   

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ISV options assist speed up your AI transformation

Whereas Azure supplies the instruments to construct and modernize clever functions, it’s necessary to contemplate the broader tech stack. Impartial Software program Vendor (ISV) options complement Azure providers by permitting you to satisfy particular use-case necessities, modernize current tech stacks onto Azure, and mitigate the necessity to construct new skillsets. In case your group routinely makes use of ISV options as a part of the app infrastructure or improvement course of, chances are high you can proceed to make use of them whilst you construct new or modernize current apps onto Azure. An instance is apps constructed on Azure Spring Apps or Azure Crimson Hat OpenShift.  

1. Azure Spring Apps Enterprise

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is a totally managed service for the Spring Framework, inbuilt collaboration with VMware. Constructing upon the Spring Framework and incorporating options from VMware Tanzu, Azure Spring Apps Enterprise helps speed up improvement with ready-made, enterprise-conformant templates. Azure Spring Apps Enterprise provides full integration into Azure’s ecosystem and providers, together with absolutely managed infrastructure, built-in app lifecycle administration, and ease of monitoring for app improvement and modernization. If in case you have current apps within the Spring Framework, you possibly can effectively modernize them onto Azure whereas managing prices and enhancing the apps with AI. Right here’s easy methods to get began: Migrate Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Apps.  

2. Azure Crimson Hat OpenShift

Azure Crimson Hat OpenShift is a turnkey software platform. It’s collectively engineered, operated, and supported by Crimson Hat and Microsoft. With Azure Crimson Hat OpenShift, you possibly can deploy absolutely managed Crimson Hat OpenShift clusters with out worrying about constructing and managing the infrastructure and prepare entry to and integration with Azure instruments, singular billing, built-in assist and entry to dedicated spend, and low cost packages. This will increase operational effectivity, time to worth, and permits builders to refocus on innovation to shortly construct, deploy, and scale functions. Get began via the Azure Red Hat OpenShift documentation.  

Microsoft additionally helps pure third-party options as a part of its ISV ecosystem, to enhance native Azure providers. Whereas these options meet a various set of use-cases, starting from analytics to storage, right here’s one which’s possible widespread to many app improvement or modernization tasks—HashiCorp Terraform.

3. HashiCorp Terraform on Azure

An infrastructure as code device for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, HashiCorp Terraform on Azure means that you can outline infrastructure as code with declarative configuration information that can be utilized to create, handle, and replace infrastructure. In case your group at the moment makes use of Terraform, builders can use their familiarity with the device to deploy and handle Azure infrastructure utilizing acquainted and constant syntax and tooling. To assist this, HashiCorp provides a library of pre-built modules for Azure providers, together with Azure AI, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure Cosmos DB. And as your builders construct new modules, maybe with GitHub Copilot, these modules will be templatized utilizing HashiCorp Terraform for reuse inside your group, organising your developer groups for larger productiveness and velocity. To get you began, learn the weblog “Empowering AI: Building and Deploying Azure AI Landing Zones with Terraform.”  

Construct and modernize apps with Azure and our companion ecosystem

So, as you look via your app infrastructure and resolve to modernize your current apps, any Spring apps or Crimson Hat OpenShift apps can simply be moved to Azure, with HashiCorp Terraform on Azure to help. Whereas we’ve solely checked out three options on this weblog, your most well-liked distributors are possible a part of the Azure ISV ecosystem. Microsoft’s ecosystem of companions additionally consists of companions specializing in providing providers to construct customized clever apps, with industry-specific expertise.

Join with consultants from Azure who will be capable of information you in your app structure that makes use of the suitable know-how and providers— Microsoft or companion—in your wants.