IT leaders today believe their organization's ability to generate value will be increasingly based on the limitations and opportunities of their technology architecture. While making the move to cloud is imperative, managing the nuances of modernization can be challenging while solving for associated challenges of resilience, agility, cost, speed to market, innovation, and development.
In order to embrace continual change, organizations need to define an outcome led approach to their cloud journey. It’s time to Do What Matters for your cloud strategy.
Join us for an interactive seminar on 6th June 2023, 11am AEST [ 9am SGT] where we will discuss how to:
- Accelerate your journey to cloud while moving your core systems to the latest & greatest cloud native architectures
- Securely unlock the value of the cloud while increasing business agility
- Take control of expenditure and be better prepared for disruption
In the session, Avanade cloud experts along with Microsoft discusses how Avanade and Microsoft jointly enabled a Government agency in Singapore to embark on the journey to be one of the first government agencies globally to move their core business processing to public cloud. The seminar will also feature Suncorp’s successful journey to cloud story, as Chad Goette, Azure Lead , Microsoft will chat with our Avanade Cloud platform lead on how Microsoft and Avanade jointly worked to support Suncorp accelerate their ability to build and deploy digital solutions for customers and foster collaborative hybrid working by growing their Azure cloud footprint.
Session Track
Journey to Cloud: Transforming Citizen services by unlocking the value of Cloud
Challenged by monolithic IT architecture & legacy mainframe, a government agency in Singapore faced system led challenges where agility and fast time-to-market was called for in the face of rapid policy changes. In this session Avanade Cloud expert Stan Laufik, Distinguished Engineer, along with Chiew Khim Lee ,Whole of Government Lead, Microsoft Singapore will decode how we are leveraging the cloud capabilities and services of commercial cloud systems to help the agency to develop applications and services for citizens in a faster and more scalable way and enabled them to be future ready.
Key take aways :
- "Lift-and-shift” OR a modernization with a rewrite to the cloud-native architecture: Strategies that prioritize the speed of the cloud adoption & cloud value realization
- How to unlock value of zero-trust-security, cloud elasticity and on-demand scaling by rewriting to the cloud native architectures
- Cloud modernization strategies that help you maximize your long-term benefits of cloud investment
Doing What Matters with Cloud Optimization: Lessons from the field
With the key objective of delivering exceptional customer experiences, Suncorp has embarked on a Cloud acceleration journey which will help them simplify its technology infrastructure, reduce datacenter costs, boost security and risk management capabilities, while allowing the more quickly develop and deploy digital solutions.
Under its multi-cloud strategy, Suncorp aims to migrate 90 per cent of workloads to the cloud by the end of 2023. In this session, Chad Goette, Azure Lead , Microsoft will chat with our Avanade Cloud platform lead on Suncorp’s journey to cloud and how Microsoft & Avanade jointly worked to help Suncorp achieve their strategic transformation goals and innovation agenda.
Key take aways :
- Strategies and experience that helped speed the migration to cloud and to meet tight timeframes for a significant datacenter exit
- How a move to the cloud improved Suncorp's security posture and positioned Suncorp for longer term agility using Native cloud architectures
- How using Microsoft's Azure VMware solution allowed Suncorp to use existing investments in people, process and tooling while still realising cloud benefits
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Speakers
Rucha Sawant
Executive, Applications & Infrastructure, Avanade
Rucha is Avanade's Applications and Infrastructure Solution Area Lead for Growth Markets (APJ, ME and LATAM). Rucha is focussed on helping our clients achieve faster go-to-market and reduced costs through application and cloud transformation via scaling the value of Microsoft technology in their enterprise journey to cloud. Rucha brings a powerful combination of business and technology leadership – with a rich working experience that spans diverse geographies including India, Singapore, Australia, China, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States.
Stan Laufik
Distinguished Engineer, Avanade
Stan Laufik in his role of the Enterprise Architect is responsible for the end-to-end technology solution for the Avanade clients. His mission is to drive business transformation, customer satisfaction and business growth by generating new ideas, architecting strategic solutions, and ensuring delivery success. Stan specializes in cloud enabled transformations, with the focus on the cloud native architectures.
Steven Rafton
Avanade Cloud platform lead
Steven Rafton leads the Microsoft Azure Platform offering in Australia with responsibility for driving sales and how we go to market for services focused on the Azure Platform. He joined Avanade Australia in 2017, with a background in Datacentre, Branch office, & Hybrid Infrastructure, Managed Services and Delivery Governance in the Education and Public Sectors. Steven has a passion for helping clients get the most from their IT investments and leverage the cloud to provide strong platforms to grow business.
Chiew Khim Lee
Whole of Government Lead, Microsoft Singapore
Chad Goette
Azure Lead , Microsoft