{"id":113138,"date":"2023-12-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/?p=113138"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:24:23","slug":"well-architected-for-industry-optimize-microsoft-industry-clouds-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/sustainability\/2023\/12\/06\/well-architected-for-industry-optimize-microsoft-industry-clouds-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-Architected for Industry: Optimize Microsoft Industry Clouds implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When designing solutions, reducing complexity, and avoiding technical debt is a priority. As part of our efforts to empower implementers to create reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions, we have introduced Well-Architected for Industry<\/a>. The framework consists of five pillars of architectural excellence including reliability, cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and security. Implementers (project managers, solution architects, developers, operational team members, and system administrators) can benefit by applying these pillars to their workloads with curated resources such as checklists, reference architectures, and design principles to support the full solution development lifecycle. These design principles and best practices offer guidance to simplify the implementation process, making operations easier for our customers and partner ecosystem.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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Since launching Well-Architected for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability<\/a> earlier this year, we have continued to grow and evolve our support for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. The latest <\/s>updates reflect changes in the product roadmap and feedback from valued partners who have been an integral part of the Well Architected for Industry framework design. We have also added Well-Architected for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare<\/a> and Well-Architected for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft offers several technical resources. The Well-Architected for Industry framework focuses on broad implementation and architectural guidance reflected in the graphic below. Combining this with the product and feature documentation, customers and partners get unified direction for successful implementations. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Designing and implementing Microsoft Industry Clouds solutions requires benchmarking against best practices. To address this need we have introduced industry relevant self-assessment tools for Well-Architected for Microsoft Sustainability Manager<\/a>. These tools help implementers work through a scenario of questions and recommendations that result in a curated guidance report that is actionable and informative, based on the project phase (plan, design, development, deployment, and operations). These self-service evaluations can highlight crucial opportunities for improvement based on specific environments and offer recommendations to improve results and increase reliability and deployment performance.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cAt KPMG we’re excited to embrace the most recent updates to Well-Architected for Industry, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability content. This framework aligns with our approach of leveraging the latest technology from Microsoft and KPMG knowledge of climate and ESG data to enable successful Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability implementations. Our real-world experience and collaboration with Microsoft have enabled us to provide feedback on this content and is a significant opportunity for us to further assist our clients in their sustainability journeys.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\u2014Tegan Keele, KPMG Climate Data & Technology Leader<\/em>. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Well-Architected for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability<\/a> resources have been updated with a focus on data management and the Microsoft Sustainability Manager<\/a> implementation journey, introducing best practices and performance-efficient Sustainability Manager workloads. The latest updates have been codesigned with select systems integrator (SI) partners such PwC, Fellowmind, and KPMG by using their experience in implementing Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, offering guidance to optimize and refine systems cohesively, based on market-tested best practices.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, revisions to reference architectures for Sustainability Manager and Emissions impact dashboard<\/a> provide visibility into the building blocks of the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability platform. We added guidance for data management, application lifecycle management, and environmental strategy to further help customers and partners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly released Sustainability Manager Implementation Assessment Tool<\/a> helps examine workloads through the lens of configuration and extension scenarios and across the Well-Architected pillars. This assessment tool allows implementers to work through one primary assessment across the planning, design, and go-live of the Sustainability Manager implementation journey.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n