Case Study: Willis Towers Watson achieves faster, more controlled cloud governance and lower costs with Microsoft Corporation Azure

Risk management enterprise increases speed and control while reducing costs with Azure governance

Willis Towers Watson needed a way to manage cyclical computing demands, reduce the cost of onsite servers, and apply consistent governance across 32 lines of business as it moved applications to the cloud. The company turned to Microsoft Corporation and Azure services, including Azure Policy, Azure Cost Management, Azure Blueprints, Azure Resource Manager, and Power BI, to support its migration and control environment.

Microsoft Corporation helped Willis Towers Watson implement centralized cloud governance through Azure Management Groups, policy-based guardrails, and cost optimization tools. As a result, the company gained faster on-demand computing, stronger security and compliance, and better cost control, while migrating 25% of its footprint to the cloud in 18 months and improving future deployment speed by an estimated 35%.

Willis Towers Watson

Michael Fleming

Senior Director of Cloud Services