Case Study: Quest Software achieves a two‑thirds reduction in time‑to‑market with Microsoft Azure

Serverless platform cuts time-to-market by two-thirds

Quest, a long‑standing provider of enterprise IT management tools, launched Quest On Demand, an Azure‑based SaaS for managing Azure Active Directory and Office 365. The company needed a born‑in‑the‑cloud, serverless architecture that could scale to manage millions (and potentially billions) of objects, eliminate costly on‑premises infrastructure and VMs, meet global and sovereign‑cloud requirements, and accelerate time‑to‑market and continuous delivery.

By building on Azure serverless services—Azure Functions, API Management, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Key Vault and Table storage—Quest created a highly elastic, pay‑as‑you‑go platform with enterprise‑grade security and global reach. The result: development cycles dropped from six–eight months to one–two months (a two‑thirds reduction), new features ship in weeks, CapEx/OpEx and management overhead fell, and Quest can scale, support, and monetize the SaaS offering worldwide.

Quest Software

Simon Broadbent

Lead Azure Architect, Microsoft Platform Management Business Unit