Case Study: Agility CMS achieves scalable, cost-effective cloud solutions and faster innovation with Microsoft Azure

Smarter Business Solutions Begin with Empowering Technology like Azure & The Microsoft Cloud

Agility CMS is a small Canadian digital services firm that evolved from ASP.NET custom development into a vertical-focused provider serving clients in retail, media and entertainment. The company struggled with managing costly hardware, meeting Canadian data‑residency and certification requirements, and delivering scalable, reliable solutions for clients with large traffic spikes (e.g., Hockey Canada).

By adopting Microsoft Azure early and using Canadian hyperscale datacentres, Agility CMS gained on‑demand scalability, stronger security/compliance, and faster time-to-market. The switch moved their offerings to ~95% cloud, enabled record-traffic events with no outages, cut costs through pay-as-you-go scaling, and gave the team greater control and agility to grow their client roster.

Agility CMS

Joel Varty

Director of Research and Development