Case Study: City & Guilds Group achieves scalable, cost-saving cloud innovation with Microsoft Azure

City & Guilds Group build a best practice environment with Microsoft Azure

City & Guilds Group, a UK provider of qualifications and digital learning products, needed a way to operate globally while staying innovative in a fast-moving market. To support its business-critical SAP environment and reduce dependence on on-premise hardware, the company turned to Microsoft Corporation and Azure for a more scalable and flexible cloud platform.

Microsoft Corporation helped City & Guilds Group move to Azure, enabling hands-off day-to-day operations, faster deployment of scalable web apps, and access to analytics, AI, and machine learning tools. The results were significant: City & Guilds Group reported savings of over £1 million per year compared with its previous on-premise solution, while also improving visibility into e-commerce performance and customer success.

City & Guilds Group

Alan Crawford

CIO