Migrate Your Workloads to the Cloud and Modernize Your Government Organization

Use these resources to start your learning journey and help you migrate your workloads to the cloud.

Expectations of governments are quickly evolving. From the public’s perspective, they want personalized digital experiences and don’t want to spend their time waiting in line or navigating government portals and services.

From an operations standpoint, with the rise of remote work – governments need to be able to enable a hybrid working environment and keep their workforce productive by giving them the ability to securely share data and collaborate not just within their own team but across multiple government agencies.

Governments are also realizing that the ability to innovate fast is key when they need to respond to unplanned events whether it’s the continuation of benefit distribution during a social crisis, tele health visits for medical needs, natural disasters, or outages. 

To overcome these challenges and accomplish their objectives, many government entities are looking to migrate their data to the cloud, vs. keeping their data on-premises.

There are many benefits of migrating your data to the cloud, like: 

• The ability to optimize government investments as well as ability to streamline, helping you reach optimized efficiency and collaboration.
• Improved performance and efficiency within government services – allowing you to automate operations; quicky create and deploy new government digital programs and services that are accessible and reliable; and scale to meet public demands to ensure reliable access to vital government programs and services.
• Mitigate risks with built-in security and compliance so you can quickly detect and respond to threats, reducing your time needed to remediate threats by 50%.
• Accelerate Innovation and fuel responsible and secure AI innovation to further enhance public experience, increase government’s productivity by increasing the job satisfaction of their employees, as they are able to focus on other critical needs as opposed to mundane tasks.

Bottom line, migrating to the cloud can help your government organization prepare for the future and reduce the risks that legacy systems and technologies present like downtime, technical debt, and security vulnerabilities. Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of migrating to the cloud.

Get Started:

Use these resources to start your learning journey and help you migrate your workloads to the cloud.

1. Watch this training video to learn about the cloud adoption journey and the steps your government organization will take as you migrate to the cloud.
2. New to the cloud?
   
   — Understand the basics of cloud computing by watching the Introduction to Cloud Computing training video.
   — Microsoft Azure fundamentals is a three-part series that teaches you basic cloud concepts, provides a streamlined overview of many Azure services, and guides you with hands-on exercises to deploy your very first services for free.
3. Explore the Microsoft Learning Path: Optimize government operations with Azure and learn about the value that Azure can bring to governments as they transition their workloads to the cloud.

Success Stories:

Read how governments around the world are migrating to the cloud and the benefits they are realizing.

• Municipality of Alkmaar migrates to Azure, improving IT operations and citizen experiences
• SENCE adopts Azure Cloud and provides efficient service in employment subsidies
• Elections Ontario scales critical capacity, strengthens election security with Azure
• Kristiansund Kommune: Transforming the Norwegian public sector through the cloud

Additional Resources:

• Understanding Digital Transformation in Government
• Cutting Edge Technologies to Improve Government Performance and Service
• Let’s Talk About Cloud: Part 1
• The Responsible Public Cloud
• World Bank Report: Government migration to cloud ecosystems
• Episode 30: Restricted data in the cloud
• Episode 22: Government migration to cloud ecosystems
• Episode 9: Lessons from Denmark: Moving Operations to Cloud

To find out more:

• Understanding Digital Transformation in Government
• Cutting Edge Technologies to Improve Government Performance and Service
• Data Culture: Data Driven Organizations