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Microsoft views their partnership with us as a given. They don’t really work on it. I don’t see...

AWS is more cost effective and capable than Azure. My impression is that Microsoft has moved to be...

Microsoft does not provide direct training. We have to work through Microsoft's retail partners or...

Microsoft provides a wide range of products and services. One of their recent acquisitions was...

When working with Microsoft, we have to stay on top of things. Microsoft has customer service...

Microsoft has a solution, a proven framework, and a large customer base. I do not understand why...

From a support standpoint, Microsoft has been good. They have a dedicated support team, and we have...

My advice for other organizations is to not fall for the cost of ownership that Microsoft gives...

We get a lot of road map information from Epic. Epic works directly with Microsoft on future...

I didn't do any initial training with Microsoft directly. I mostly did self-training through...

There are things to know and things you should worry about with Azure. The system can work...

With the few tickets we've had with Azure, Microsoft's response times can be long, especially for...

We would love Azure to be cheaper because it's such a high expense, but I wouldn't want to go back...

We have issues sometimes with quotas, getting the machine sizes we need, changing technologies, and...

I rate Microsoft's development and vision a little lower because they seem a little lost on what...

We recommend Azure a lot. In my mind, there are two options: Azure and AWS. The others out there,...

We're running hardware that's a few years old, and that's okay for what we're doing. We don't need...

The biggest thing I would tell others considering moving Epic to Azure is to make sure they talk...

There are always opportunities for improvement with Microsoft's support model. That's across the...

Generally, Microsoft's overall support of Azure is pretty good. Things just depend. The relationship...

Our organization has been on a cloud-first journey for the past several years. The main goal for...

The total cost of ownership of the cloud depends on how we look at it. We were looking at a really...

Organizations don't need to go to the cloud to save money. They go for all the other business...

The primary reason that Azure has a little bit of an edge over other systems is how Microsoft...

We've had Epic in Azure for a few years now. We've had Epic on-premises for that time. We had both...

When we went to the cloud, we were writing the playbook in a lot of ways. Microsoft definitely...

Microsoft has training offerings if users have time to consume them.

I used to be able to say Microsoft's partnership is very high, but that's dropped down in the last...

If we're going to be in the utility services business and want to move services from on premises to...

I have not had much success with Microsoft's support. I've almost always had to deal with the...

When we get into the cloud, things can get complex, especially when we start layering security and...

Microsoft should be more transparent with pricing. They should make more training, including deeper...

Microsoft has taken a backseat to their resellers, so I don't find them engaging at all. I don't...

With Azure, the technology is there. I do think the landscape is changing a lot. I think a lot of...

If we're from the Microsoft ecosystem and are used to working with Microsoft products, the...

Microsoft’s technology continues to be strong. They had some major outages in the past, but they...

The cost is the biggest prohibitive reason we haven’t invested more in Microsoft. We’re still able...

Microsoft's online training program is actually pretty comprehensive.

We meet with Microsoft often, but their support is reactive. Putting in a good ticket is hard, and...

Microsoft made a lot of very bold assumptions that have proven to not hold true in reality. I still...

I don't know that Microsoft is doing anything particularly great. I think Azure is a solid platform...

Azure is missing an equivalent of Citrix as it relates to Epic.

Microsoft has been a good partner throughout the whole process here. We looked at multiple cloud...

One of the gotchas that we have with Azure is just the amount of security that we are putting on the...

Microsoft has been transparent. They have owned issues when they arose and have constructively...

Epic still does their own hosting, but it doesn't make good business sense. If they had a...

I would like Microsoft to have more prescriptive or out-of-the-box health checks to help me...

Microsoft doesn't really have a training program. They offload training to a third party, but they...

There is nothing there that I can’t do in Azure. We have been so successful with Azure that we are...

When we got ready to go live with the solution, we were able to get in contact with some of the...

We are moving everything off our previous solution and putting it all in Azure. We are going deeper...

Microsoft’s vision is strong, but they are such a large organization that agility can suffer. We...

I don’t need to evaluate the best SIEM, the best EDR, the best cloud services, or the best PaaS...

We went with Microsoft because we have a great relationship there, and my security stack is fully...

People like to beat up on Microsoft. I don’t understand it. I have offered for other organizations...

I pay a premium for the vendor's premium support, and they deliver. I have a dedicated Microsoft...

Azure is very intuitive. I assume the vendor has good training programs. We have not had to use them...

A small shop isn't going to get much direct support from Microsoft, so they need experts who know...

In healthcare, much of the industry is embedded in Microsoft. Familiarity and ubiquity matter, and...

We use Azure to host virtual machines. We use it for identity management and for Microsoft Office...

One of the challenges with Epic is that they do not have a report delivery model. They basically...

Snowflake is better than Azure in many ways, but Microsoft is working hard to catch up. Their data...

Cloud prices still stagger me, but we are very happy with Microsoft. Truthfully, they have worked...

Azure is challenging because the missing pieces aren’t described well. We end up having to learn a...

Regarding development and innovation, Microsoft wants to go somewhere. They have a big dream they...

We have an Azure environment that I manage a project in, and regarding just getting it to work with...

Microsoft has partnered with us pretty well, and we have done quite a bit with them. We have learned...

Microsoft isn't really forthcoming with a lot of what is coming in the future because of the...

I wish Azure were cheaper. There are things that the vendor does sometimes that make me feel like...

It is difficult to say how Microsoft could improve their support because their support is all over...

Microsoft has a lot of training materials. The Azure side of things doesn't have what I would call...

I don't generally work directly with Microsoft; instead, I work with one of our internal teams. They...

Microsoft recently taught us more about how to increase productivity with the solution. Microsoft is...

Our organization is really complex, so it has been a challenge to get clarity and detail across the...

I wasn't involved in the implementation of Azure, but I worked closely with the IT group that...

Azure stands out because of its flexibility. We have been able to join multiple systems together and...

I have not found anything in Azure that we cannot integrate in a way that aligns with our policies...

Azure’s AI agent for console support was awful. I have a very infrastructure-as-code-oriented team...

Microsoft’s support team is pretty good. It is far better than what we experienced with another...

I do not think that any cloud providers do a great job with onboarding. They basically welcome us to...

We chose Azure because, at the time, the other solution we were looking at did not have the support...

We can go directly to Microsoft when we need to. Our partnership with Microsoft is fine. There is...

We had a hard time putting some guardrails around things in the system because when an organization...

We have had a couple of partners through Microsoft who have been very helpful. We haven't really had...

Azure is rapidly evolving, so it is hard for Microsoft and their customers to keep up. For the...

The unified support from Microsoft has actually been pretty good. They do send their executives here...

Microsoft doesn't know how to implement technology in healthcare yet. They know they have a gap, but...

Microsoft does a good job of meeting our needs. But the support for Azure is absolutely horrible....

Microsoft does a really fantastic job of documenting how their products are supposed to work. When...

Having more easily configurable off-the-shelf solutions that we can adapt to our own environment...

With Microsoft, we have a pay-as-we-use-it model. There is no fixed rate, which is common in the...

Microsoft is so big that it is hard to get in touch with people there.

We have had a steep learning curve using Azure, but we have gotten a lot of good results for...

The onboarding process involves very little guidance. There is quite a bit of documentation, but we...

With Microsoft, we spent a lot of time trying to understand and check all the boxes because we were...

We have good support from Microsoft. We have a good team that is very responsive to me and very...

Azure is very granular, and users have to know it. It can be complicated. How the system is set up,...

The technology is great. My biggest issue is with Microsoft in terms of how they nickel-and-dime the...

Microsoft nickels-and-dimes us on everything. They have a good product, but they constantly find a...

When it comes to training, Microsoft does a very poor job. They shoved so much training down our...

On the one hand, Azure is very easy for the end user to use, but on the other hand, we can't make...

Microsoft’s support people are horrible. We can't get them on the phone. We have to go through six...

Microsoft’s proactiveness is pretty good. They are almost too proactive. They patch things out of...

I'm happy with the executive team, and I like the new CEO. He made a lot of good changes when he...

Microsoft’s quality and effectiveness of implementations are pretty weak. They use a lot of third...

We knew Azure, and the firm we were working with also knew how to use it. However, Microsoft's...

The sourness for Azure comes when people haggle and give me a hard time with numbers, dollars, and...