Hampshire FRS sign up with Infographics' Azure Cloud Managed Services

Infographics UK Ltd., a specialist software manufacturer and Microsoft® Gold Partner, announced on the 13th July that Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service (FRS) has gone live with their new Microsoft Azure Managed Service option.
Azure is Microsoft’s global cloud platform for building, deploying and managing services and applications.
Clients are now able to run Infographics’ mission-critical solutions for Enterprise Resource Management and Business Process & Case Management on the Azure platform. This includes FireWatch®, TeamWatch® and FloSuite® based solutions.
Hampshire FRS are one of Infographics’ first clients to move to the Azure Cloud, and have approaching 2,000 end users of the FireWatch and FloSuite solutions – previously provided via an ‘on premise’ infrastructure.
The new agreement has migrated their existing FireWatch and FloSuite applications into Azure, with Infographics providing an additional fully-managed service for both infrastructure and solutions, and 24 x 7 support.
Colin Sutherland, Systems Manager at Hampshire Fire & Rescue, said: “We’re extremely pleased to have moved over to the Azure Hosted Environment provided by Infographics. This has delivered us cost savings based on the previous hosting arrangement we had in place, increased our level of resilience and support, and also delivered greater flexibility to our employees as they are now able to access our suite of applications from anywhere they have internet access. This marks a major milestone for ourselves and for Infographics as we move forward with our ICT Transformation to move into cloud-based solutions.”
As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Infographics’ IT professionals have both the Microsoft platform and solution knowledge to remove the complexities surrounding Azure, by assuming management and support responsibilities for customers.
Microsoft Azure is a collection of integrated cloud services, covering analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage and web offerings. Azure provides an integrated toolset, pre-built templates and managed services make it easier to build and manage enterprise, mobile, web and Internet of Things apps faster.
With the broadest global footprint, largest compliance portfolio, enterprise-grade SLAs and world-class support, Azure provides a robust, resilient and reliable environment – not just for your Infographics applications, but also other workloads. Azure cloud has been designed for enterprise needs with 85 per cent of Fortune 500 companies already using it.