Leading provider of digital transformation and cloud services, ANS has achieved the Analytics on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialisation, making them the only UK based Azure Expert MSP to have achieved the accolade.

The Analytics on Microsoft Azure advanced specialisation validates ANS’ deep experience in planning and delivering analytics solutions in Microsoft Azure, enabling their customers to use the full breadth of their data assets to help build transformative and secure analytical solutions at enterprise scale.

ANS met the comprehensive requirements and demonstrated the highest standards of service delivery and support to earn the advanced specialisation. This is now enabling them to further differentiate their organisation, validate their capabilities, and build stronger connections with customers through their ability to plan and deliver tailored Microsoft analytics solutions using Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks.

Eleri Gibbon, UK Services Partner Lead at Microsoft said, “Microsoft continue to invest in ways for our partners to showcase their expertise in Microsoft Cloud and ensure our customers can work with the most skilled and experienced partners on our most advanced solutions. By achieving the Azure Analytics Advanced Specialisation, ANS have demonstrated a deep technical capability, a commitment to best practice and are well placed to help our customers unlock the value of their data.”

ANS’ CTO Joe Wolski added, “Over the last couple of years, business’ priorities have shifted placing data at the forefront of almost all business strategies, regardless of the sector. Organisations are increasingly focusing on driving measurable outcomes to maximise business value and in response to this, we’ve worked tirelessly to invest in our data practice. Achieving this specialisation demonstrates our elite ability to create the most innovative solutions on Microsoft Azure to help customers unlock greater value from their data to make informed data-driven decisions.”

To find out more about this specialisation and what is means for our customers, watch this short video from our Data Practice Lead, Rob Cottrill below.