Sentia renews Azure Expert MSP

In 2018 Sentia was among the very first to be recognized as Azure Expert MSP. Today, Sentia renews its elite status for the sixth consecutive year and validates the highest possible standard of managed cloud services.

What is Azure Expert MSP?

As customers move to the public cloud at an increasing pace, they need partners with a deep level of cloud expertise to guide them. In this rapid adoption, many businesses are concerned by the complexity of managing their increasingly complex IT environments and are turning to trusted partners to help them achieve their expected business outcomes. They need partners that not only know the ins and outs of their IT but are capable of advising them on their cloud strategy, making sure it is aligned with their business and, in turn, unlocking the full potential of the cloud.

The Azure Expert MSP program is designed to highlight the most capable partners. It certifies only 46 MSPs Worldwide as the most qualified Azure Managed Service Providers in the world and attests to their capacity to provide advanced cloud expertise and management.

Having this independent seal of approval helps customers choose their trusted advisors for their cloud journey, who can help them to properly manage their cloud environments. Decision makers can easily discover highly skilled providers like Sentia with validated competencies, offering customers certainty that a partner has proven their expertise through completing a rigorous third-party audit.

What does Sentia being Azure Expert MSP mean for you?

Armed with the knowledge that only the most high-fidelity cloud MSP’s are awarded the certification you have the extra confidence when selecting a partner to help you meet your digital transformation goals.

Highlighting the elite within MSPs, the accreditation lets you know that Sentia is building and managing Azure environments to the industry’s highest possible standard, providing you:

1. Superior service: We are your trusted Azure experts – that means you get expert-level service. This program simplifies the process for you to identify the top Azure MSPs who can deliver a higher quality of managed cloud services across your entire cloud journey.
2. Broader offerings: No matter your cloud maturity, be it on-premise or cloud-native, we help you advance to the next level advising you on the right cloud path aligned with your business strategy. Our experts specialize in your industry and context to ensure that you take full advantage of the cloud.
3. Intimate partnerships: We are a preferred Microsoft partner. This strengthens our partnership with all its benefits positively impacting you. A perfect example is Microsoft Premier Support providing extra fast response times to Microsoft. Microsoft services combined with Sentia expertise present your unique business possibilities.

This status also helps to continuously guarantee the quality of our Azure processes and is therefore really a quality mark.

We continue to help clients drive business success, leveraging managed services on Azure, advising on your Azure strategy and intelligent cloud demands to manage even the most complex environments. You need well-configured, secure, and top-performing applications and infrastructure - we are here for you 24/7.

With a proven track record of helping customers transform, migrate and supporting them on their way to Azure, we help you on your journey to the cloud. We advise you on the best strategy for the cloud and align it with your business strategy, optimizing and managing your foundation to ensure that you reap all the benefits of the cloud and lead the way.

What is audited?

Earning Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status - the highest possible recognition for an Azure solution provider - follows a comprehensive qualification process. Partners that earn the credential must then meet annual prerequisites and successfully complete yearly progress audits.

The requirements to become an Azure Expert MSP are the most stringent of any Microsoft program and Microsoft reserves this exclusive program for highly capable MSPs that meet an ever-evolving set of requirements covering customer delivery, technical expertise, as well as the successful completion of an independent audit of services, capabilities, people, processes and technologies.

Sentia was recently validated on our commitment to providing next-generation managed service offerings in this rigorous audit conducted by an independent third-party auditor. The process took 250+ hours of effort and covered 65 topics spanning Sentias teams, from commercial to technology and operations. Sentia provided evidence of more than 60 Azure-related services each verified by customers in terms of meeting key requirements across business-critical infrastructure, applications and operations.

Highlighting Sentia’s excellent system and document management processes, as well as securing best practices for the integrity and continuity of management systems, the third-party auditor assessed a wide range of factors including Sentia’s:

• Proven customer success demonstrated via public case studies and references
• Cloud operations and service management
• Security and governance to ensure data protection and compliance
• Service level agreements and premier support
• Proven strong technical knowledge and skills from experts with Azure certifications
• Planning, design and migration services
• People and processes constituting the ability to offer managed services for complex Azure environments