{"id":16438,"date":"2025-03-27T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=16438"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:36:03","slug":"driving-business-value-from-azure-cloud-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"webinars","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/webinars\/driving-business-value-from-azure-cloud-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving business value from Azure cloud in 2025\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"single-column-content single-column-content--container-regular single-column-content--align-left\">\n    \n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"single-column-content__inner\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n                            <h2 class=\"single-column-content__heading h4\">Identify and prioritise business-value with your cloud roadmap in 2025<\/h2>\n            \n                            <div class=\"single-column-content__content standard-body\">\n                    <p>Join Version 1\u2019s Azure cloud experts as they dissect the root cause of many organisations\u2019 struggle to realise tangible business value from cloud investment in 2025. Understand the historical decisions that have led many to this point, and more importantly, gain actionable advice to help you pivot cloud roadmap to drive revenue, solve inefficiencies, and open new routes to market this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Framing the problem<\/strong>: Understand how cloud investment strategies driven by technical efficiencies and fear of missing out, have led to a disconnect from tangible \u201cbusiness value\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Turning the ship<\/strong>: Learn in the context of real-world examples and technologies, how to realign your cloud roadmap to drive business revenue, solve inefficiencies and open new routes to market<\/li>\n<li><strong>Making a plan<\/strong>: Learn from SMEs, with decades of Azure cloud experience, actionable strategies and next steps to help your organisation get more out of its investment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Who should attend?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Technical leaders<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In this session you will learn best practice for smarter integration of your technology roadmap with organisational goals and outcomes with tangible business value<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commercial<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>leaders<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In this session you will learn how to reframe Cloud adoption, from a technology expense, to a driver of business value<\/p>\n<h3>Meet the speakers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Alex Montgomery<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Monty has spent 20+ years in the technology industry, including 15 years at Microsoft across product, partner, sales and strategy roles. 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