Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by shifting some or all their management and operations from on-premises, hosted, and outsourced implementations to Azure’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering. The purpose of this study is to give readers a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact, or ROI, of leveraging Azure IaaS for their organizations. Benefits gained by interviewed customers that migrated or re-architected some or all workloads from on-premises to IaaS include:
› Greater revenue opportunities from business-to-business (B2B) and customer web channels with a solution that is more mobile and reliable, and meets scale and seasonality needs. › Increased profits from those revenues. › Improved production efficiency. › Reduced datacenter, IT resource, and outsourcing costs. › Easier and faster software and hardware management (such as patching and support)
