Microsoft Strategic Partnership

Microsoft Partnership for Modern Digital Transformation

DGL works with Microsoft technologies to help organizations modernize operations, improve collaboration, strengthen security, accelerate cloud adoption, and support scalable digital transformation initiatives.

Connected Microsoft Stack

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Microsoft 365

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Business Apps

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A practical partnership model for cloud platforms, collaboration, governance, automation, data, and managed Microsoft service continuity.

Microsoft Partnership Overview

A governed Microsoft environment, not a collection of licenses.

The partnership work centers on making Microsoft cloud, workplace, application, security, and data services easier to adopt, manage, and extend.

Platform decisions

Architecture, environments, identity, integration, and data choices become visible and reusable.

Adoption routines

Teams receive practical structures for collaboration, workflow, reporting, security, and support.

Managed evolution

Roadmaps stay aligned as Microsoft services, business priorities, and operating risks change.

DGL helps organizations use Microsoft as a connected enterprise capability across cloud, collaboration, automation, insight, and security.

Partner-led modernization
Strategic Partnership Value

Create a shared operating layer for Microsoft transformation.

Value increases when the Microsoft estate has a clear relationship between business demand, platform standards, user adoption, and service ownership.

Business demand

Prioritized workflows, adoption needs, reporting gaps, and modernization cases.

Platform standards

Reusable guardrails for cloud, apps, identity, environments, data, and releases.

Service ownership

Clear responsibilities for support, governance, monitoring, cost, and improvement.

Measured adoption

Usage, productivity, security, satisfaction, reliability, and value indicators.

Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization

Modernize Azure foundations with operating discipline built in.

DGL helps teams classify workloads, plan migration, strengthen identity, manage environments, and improve resilience without turning cloud change into a disconnected infrastructure exercise.

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cloud_queueWorkload readiness

Dependencies, sensitivity, performance, integration, and migration sequencing.

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Network, backup, resilience, identity, monitoring, and service controls.

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Application links, data flows, automation triggers, and operating handoffs.

query_statsOptimization loop

Usage, cost, reliability, security posture, and continuous service tuning.

Microsoft Technology Ecosystem

Plan the ecosystem as connected services, not isolated products.

A balanced ecosystem view makes dependencies visible between cloud foundations, workplace tools, business platforms, security controls, data services, and AI enablement.

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Cloud, work, apps, and insight mapped together.

Governed paths3

Identity, data, and release controls applied consistently.

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Cloud foundation
Azure, identity, infrastructure
Landing zones, migration paths, backup, monitoring, cost control, and platform operations.
Digital work
Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint
Collaboration, document control, knowledge access, workflow intake, and employee productivity.
Business platforms
Dynamics, Power Platform
Case handling, CRM, forms, approvals, automation, reporting, and low-code governance.
Insight and AI
Fabric, Power BI, Copilot-ready data, semantic models, curated workspaces, and governed reporting layers. Supports trusted datasets, report certification, and AI-ready knowledge access.
Data models, dashboards, automation intelligence, governance, and AI-enabled work patterns. Includes adoption signals, ownership rules, reusable insight components, refresh checks, and decision-ready reporting for delivery teams.
Digital Workplace & Collaboration

Make Microsoft 365 easier to use, govern, and scale.

Collaboration value improves when teams have clear workspaces, document structures, ownership models, and adoption routines.

Teams

Channel structures, meeting routines, service groups, and collaboration etiquette.

SharePoint

Intranets, document libraries, metadata, permissions, and knowledge access.

Workflow

Approvals, requests, handoffs, reminders, and status visibility.

Identity

Role design, privileged access, conditional access, and guest controls.

Information

Retention, classification, document handling, and audit readiness.

Platform

Environment strategy, connector policies, release controls, and monitoring.

Security, Compliance & Governance

Strengthen controls without slowing delivery.

Microsoft environments need security models that teams can understand and operate across identity, access, information protection, compliance, and platform governance.

Data, Analytics & AI Enablement

Prepare Microsoft data foundations for better decisions and automation.

DGL helps connect data sources, reporting needs, governance, and AI-ready use cases so insight becomes part of daily operations.

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Common definitions, source mapping, quality checks, ownership, and access rules.

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Power BI dashboards, operational measures, leadership reporting, and action triggers.

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Copilot readiness, automation candidates, prompt routines, risk controls, and adoption support.

Microsoft Delivery Approach

Move from architecture intent to adopted capability.

Discover

Review platforms, users, controls, and priorities.

Design

Define architecture, governance, waves, and outcomes.

Implement

Configure, migrate, integrate, automate, and validate.

Improve

Support adoption, monitor usage, and optimize costs.

Business Outcomes & Impact

Measure the partnership through platform value and business adoption.

Modernization: fewer legacy constraints, cleaner integrations, and scalable cloud environments.

Productivity: stronger collaboration, faster approvals, better knowledge access, and less duplicated work.

Security: clearer access controls, governance routines, compliance visibility, and risk reduction.

Insight: useful reporting, trusted data, AI readiness, and better decision support.

Resilience: improved service continuity, monitoring, backup posture, and operational support.

Value control: stronger license usage, cloud cost visibility, reusable standards, and roadmap discipline.

Long-Term Partnership Model

Keep Microsoft services aligned as business needs evolve.

The partnership model keeps roadmap decisions, support expectations, and optimization work connected over time.

Roadmap governance

Priorities, standards, investment sequencing, and risk review.

  • Maintain decision logs and ownership checkpoints.
  • Review roadmap dependencies before each delivery wave.
Managed support

Release planning, service improvement, incident learning, and user guidance.

  • Track recurring issues and support readiness actions.
  • Coordinate updates with adoption and training needs.
Continuous optimization

Usage insight, cost control, adoption measures, and maturity planning.

  • Identify underused services and license improvements.
  • Prioritize automation and reporting refinements.
Microsoft Readiness Conversation

Choose the Microsoft capability your organization needs to mature next.

Start with a focused review across cloud, workplace, data, security, applications, and automation, then shape a practical roadmap for delivery.

Assess the current Microsoft estate and priority business workflows.

Prioritize the first capability with the clearest adoption and value path.

Mobilize delivery ownership, governance, support, and measurement.

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