Avanade

Avanade is the world’s most experienced innovator on the Microsoft platform, providing digital, cloud, AI, and advisory services, industry solutions, and design-led experiences. Specializing in Microsoft, Avanade helps clients create innovative workplace and customer experiences to scale their businesses. Avanade offers advisory, experiences, and technology services to accelerate clients’ business goals, and has a strong alliance with Accenture and Microsoft. The company operates in 26 countries, serving over 5,000 global clients with a workforce of 60,000 employees, 43% of whom are women among new hires. Avanade holds more than 60,000 Microsoft certifications and has 18 Microsoft Gold competencies, more than any other Microsoft partner. The company has won the Microsoft Global SI Partner of the Year award 18 times. Avanade is committed to environmental sustainability and forward-looking leadership, with a comprehensive ESG program aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Avanade has implemented various innovative solutions, such as a virtual rounding solution for Seattle Children’s Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has helped PageGroup and DENSO Corporation enhance their processes with generative AI. Avanade has also partnered with organizations like SSE Renewables and Anglian Water to drive environmental sustainability through AI advancements. The company has invested $6 million in community projects, enabling 1.2 million young people worldwide, and its employees have contributed 32,524 volunteer hours. Avanade’s Client Data Protection and Business Continuity Management programs align with ISO standards, and the company has achieved multiple certifications, including ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, TISAX, and the Data Privacy TrustMark in Singapore.