Governance is really important
to BP because
we used to have a lot of manual
processes related to
building individual services
that needed to be stood up.
We want to empower our project
teams and our
application teams to be able to
go and just
get services when they need
them.
The Azure platform has many
features that
make our whole governance
process around IT
much more efficient.
With Azure Policies, it's
automated.
If we find something needs to
change,
we change it at source. You
don't have to worry about
the wrong image being used, or
someone not following the new
standard. It just happens.
As you get into Azure
governance services,
we're able to leverage things
like Azure Policies,
and that allows us to have
consistency
every time a service is
deployed,
it is deployed the same way
every single time.
We don't have those manual
mistakes.
Policies are used to kind of
regulate and govern
what can be done in each type of
subscription.
It can just go from one
resource group to another
that's in the same subscription.
No confusion.
And I think that will even
further refine
the delivery of these
applications.
By leveraging Cost Management,
they realized that
some of the machines they were
running,
nobody was using.

They reduced their M-Series
portfolio's cost
by probably 50%.
All of a sudden you'll see
several sprints where
we're pushing maybe a hundred
applications
over like a six-week period,
which is pretty amazing
compared to what we were able to
do on-prem.
It's changed how we think of
what our job is.
We see over and over again,
returns to that investment.
We've been successful at
continuing to push,
and stay on the bleeding edge of
cloud adoption,
because we have such great
relationships
back into Microsoft.
Azure's been really valuable for
us
as a tool for agility.