Case Study: Itron achieves faster DevOps releases and lower licensing costs with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services

Itron - Customer Case Study

Itron, a global technology and services provider for utilities, faced a significant DevOps challenge. Its many acquired R&D teams operated autonomously, using a wide variety of development platforms, languages, and tools. This fragmented landscape created inefficiencies, increased costs, and slowed their ability to deliver new cloud-based managed services to market. To support its strategic shift and digital transformation, Itron partnered with Microsoft to adopt a unified approach using Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

Microsoft's solution involved standardizing Itron's global DevOps on the cloud-based Visual Studio Team Services platform. This provided a unified environment for work tracking, source control, automated builds, testing, and release management. The results were transformative: release cycles were reduced from several months to just three weeks, and automated testing slashed testing cycles by up to 80%. Furthermore, Itron cut its licensing costs by at least 25% and gained unprecedented visibility into its development pipeline, significantly accelerating its time-to-market.

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Ben Abshire

Acting Director, Research and Development