Case Study: Somerset County Council achieves greater efficiency and savings with Microsoft Corporation Azure

County government boosts innovation and savings with cloud and open source

Somerset County Council, a UK local government serving 550,000 residents, needed to modernize aging infrastructure that was costly, slow to scale, and prone to outages, including issues affecting its ROAM rights-of-way application. The council turned to Microsoft Corporation, using Azure services and Visual Studio Team Services to support a hybrid cloud strategy for Windows, Linux, and open source systems.

Microsoft Corporation helped Somerset County Council build a new DevOps environment in Azure in just four days and migrate key services like ROAM to Azure App Service, Azure Container Service, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The result was faster releases, automated infrastructure provisioning, improved uptime and scalability, and significant savings, including more than £65,000 a year in power costs, while reducing downtime and support overhead.

Somerset County Council

Andy Grigg

Enterprise Architect