Case Study: Towergate achieves rapid cloud migration and real‑time, cost‑saving IT operations with Avanade

Towergate leverages cloud to fuel the real-time enterprise

Towergate, a UK-based insurance intermediary serving some 350,000 customers, faced an increasingly fragmented, costly and unreliable IT landscape after years of acquisitive growth. Unable to collaborate effectively or get a unified view of the business, the company sought a trusted partner to shift to a cloud-based, as‑a‑service operating model and engaged Accenture (with Microsoft and Avanade) to lead a full IT transformation.

Accenture migrated Towergate’s infrastructure and workloads to Microsoft Azure, rationalized servers and consolidated roughly 2,300 applications to 222, modernized network and telephony, standardized end‑user computing, and assumed seven years of service support—completing the program in 12 months. The outcome was a stable, scalable platform that cut annual run‑rate costs by about 30% (~£4m), reduced incidents, improved collaboration and user experience, and created a foundation for future growth and acquisitions.

Towergate

Adrian Brown

Chief Operating Officer