EPC Group vs Big Consulting
Why Microsoft Specialists Deliver Better Outcomes Than Global Giants
Why Choose a Microsoft Specialist Like EPC Group Over a Big 4 Consulting Firm?
Enterprise organizations choosing between EPC Group and large consulting firms like Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro, or Avanade face a fundamental decision: hire a generalist with broad platform coverage, or hire a specialist with deep Microsoft ecosystem mastery. The data consistently favors specialists. EPC Group delivers production-ready Microsoft environments in 4-8 weeks (vs. 12-24 weeks at Big 4 firms), at 30-50% lower total cost, with 85%+ end-user adoption rates (vs. 40-60% at large firms). Backed by 25+ years of exclusive Microsoft focus, 4 Microsoft Press bestselling books, and 600+ enterprise migrations, EPC Group represents the specialist advantage that global consulting firms cannot replicate.
The Specialist Advantage: Why Depth Beats Breadth in Microsoft Consulting
The consulting industry has operated on a flawed premise for decades: that bigger firms deliver better outcomes. The logic seems intuitive — larger teams, more offices, broader service catalogs should translate to superior results. But enterprise Microsoft implementations tell a different story.
When organizations deploy Power BI, migrate to SharePoint Online, implement Microsoft Fabric, or architect Azure solutions, they need consultants who live and breathe the Microsoft ecosystem every day — not generalists who split their attention across Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, and a dozen other platforms. The Microsoft stack alone encompasses hundreds of services, thousands of configuration options, and a release cadence that introduces significant changes every quarter. Maintaining expertise across all of this requires singular focus.
EPC Group has maintained that singular focus for over 25 years. Founded by Errin O'Connor — a 4-time Microsoft Press bestselling author whose books on Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and large-scale migrations are used as reference guides by Microsoft consultants worldwide — EPC Group exists for one purpose: helping enterprises extract maximum value from Microsoft technologies. This focus produces measurable differences in speed, cost, quality, and adoption that no generalist firm can match.
The specialist advantage is not theoretical. Across 600+ enterprise engagements, EPC Group has documented consistent patterns: implementations complete 40-60% faster than comparable Big 4 engagements, total cost of ownership runs 30-50% lower when licensing optimization and reduced change-order frequency are factored in, and end-user adoption rates exceed 85% — more than double the 40-60% rates typical of large-firm implementations where training and change management are treated as afterthoughts rather than core deliverables.
Faster implementation vs Big 4
Lower total cost of ownership
End-user adoption rate
Why Big Consulting Firms Struggle with Microsoft Implementations
Large consulting firms like Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro, Infosys, and Capgemini are formidable organizations with genuine strengths — global scale, deep client relationships, and the ability to mobilize hundreds of consultants for massive transformation programs. But their structural model creates predictable weaknesses when applied to Microsoft-specific implementations.
Understanding these structural challenges is not about disparaging competitors. It is about helping enterprise decision-makers make an informed choice based on the realities of how different firms operate, staff, and deliver Microsoft engagements.
The Platform-Agnostic Dilution Problem
Big consulting firms serve every major technology vendor simultaneously. The same practice that delivers Microsoft Power BI also delivers Tableau, Qlik, and Looker. The same cloud team that architects Azure also architects AWS and GCP. This breadth is valuable for organizations genuinely evaluating multiple platforms — but once the decision is made to invest in Microsoft, a generalist team cannot match the depth of a firm that has spent 25 years exclusively in the Microsoft ecosystem. A Big 4 Power BI consultant might have 200 hours of platform experience; an EPC Group consultant has 10,000+.
The Junior Staffing Model
Large firms operate on a leverage model: one senior partner oversees 8-12 junior consultants who perform the actual implementation work. This model optimizes for firm profitability but creates a significant expertise gap on client engagements. When an enterprise deploys Power BI with row-level security across a HIPAA-regulated healthcare system, having a consultant with 2-3 years of experience making architectural decisions introduces real risk. EPC Group staffs every engagement with senior consultants who average 15+ years in the Microsoft ecosystem — the people making decisions have done this hundreds of times before.
The Time-and-Materials Incentive Misalignment
Most Big 4 engagements are billed on a time-and-materials basis, creating a structural incentive to extend timelines. Discovery phases that should take 2 weeks become 6-week affairs with elaborate deliverables. Implementation tasks that a specialist completes in days take weeks when junior staff are learning on the job. EPC Group's fixed-fee model eliminates this misalignment: the firm succeeds when the client's environment is in production quickly, not when billable hours accumulate. This is why EPC Group engagements consistently finish 40-60% faster than equivalent Big 4 implementations.
The Offshore Quality Variance
Firms like Wipro, Infosys, and Cognizant rely heavily on offshore delivery centers to maintain competitive pricing. While offshore teams can be effective for well-defined, repetitive tasks, Microsoft architecture and governance work requires deep understanding of the client's regulatory environment, organizational culture, and existing technology landscape — context that is difficult to transfer across continents and time zones. EPC Group maintains U.S.-based delivery with 6 offices across Texas, Illinois, and Washington DC, ensuring consultants work in the same time zones and regulatory frameworks as their clients.
7 Ways EPC Group Delivers Better Outcomes Than Big Consulting Firms
The advantages of working with a Microsoft specialist are not abstract. They manifest in specific, measurable ways across every phase of an engagement — from pre-sales through implementation to ongoing managed services.
Faster Architecture Decisions with Proven Patterns
EPC Group has architected 600+ Microsoft environments across every major industry vertical. This pattern library means architecture decisions that take Big 4 discovery teams 4-6 weeks to formulate are made by EPC Group consultants in the first week — because they have already solved the same problem dozens of times. For Power BI implementations, EPC Group deploys pre-built governance frameworks, data model templates, and DAX optimization patterns refined across hundreds of engagements. This is the compound advantage of specialization: every engagement makes the next one faster and better.
Direct Access to Microsoft Product Teams
As a 4-time Microsoft Press bestselling author, EPC Group's CEO Errin O'Connor maintains direct relationships with Microsoft product teams for Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, Fabric, and Copilot. When a client encounters a platform limitation or bug, EPC Group can escalate directly to engineering — not through a generic support ticket. This access also means EPC Group clients benefit from early access to preview features and roadmap intelligence that informs long-term architecture decisions. Large firms have Microsoft relationships at the partnership level, but rarely at the product engineering level where technical problems are actually resolved.
Compliance-First Architecture (Not an Afterthought)
In healthcare (HIPAA), financial services (SOC 2), and government (FedRAMP), compliance is not a checkbox — it is an architectural requirement that must be designed in from day one. EPC Group bakes compliance into every deployment: Business Associate Agreements, Azure Private Link configurations, row-level security, sensitivity labels via Microsoft Purview, and comprehensive audit logging are standard deliverables. At large firms, compliance is typically a separate workstream staffed by different consultants, creating handoff gaps and adding 20-40% to project timelines and budgets.
Licensing Optimization That Saves 30-40%
One of the most overlooked aspects of Microsoft consulting is licensing. The difference between Power BI Pro, Premium Per User, Premium Capacity, and Fabric licensing can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for large organizations. EPC Group performs a licensing optimization audit on every engagement, right-sizing subscriptions based on actual usage patterns and organizational needs. This audit consistently saves clients 30-40% on annual Microsoft licensing costs. Large firms rarely perform this analysis because their business model does not incentivize reducing the size of the technology footprint — a larger footprint means more services to sell around it.
Same Senior Team from Sale to Support
At EPC Group, the senior consultants who architect the solution also implement it, train end users, and provide ongoing managed services. This eliminates the knowledge loss that plagues Big 4 engagements, where a senior architect designs the solution but hands it off to a junior implementation team, which then hands it off to a separate managed services division. Each handoff loses 20-30% of institutional knowledge. EPC Group's model maintains continuity from the first discovery call through years of post-implementation support — the team that built it is the team that supports it.
Integrated Microsoft Stack Expertise
Power BI does not exist in isolation. An effective enterprise analytics deployment integrates with SharePoint for report distribution, Azure for data pipelines, Microsoft Fabric for lakehouse architecture, Purview for data governance, Copilot for natural language analytics, and Teams for collaborative decision-making. EPC Group architects solutions across the full Microsoft stack because that is all they do. At a Big 4 firm, the Power BI team, the Azure team, the SharePoint team, and the security team often operate as separate practice areas with separate budgets and competing priorities — creating integration gaps that the client ultimately pays to resolve.
Published Expertise You Can Verify
EPC Group's expertise is not claimed — it is published, peer-reviewed, and publicly available. Four Microsoft Press bestselling books covering Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and enterprise migrations serve as independent verification of the firm's depth. No other Microsoft consulting firm of any size — including Avanade (an Accenture-Microsoft joint venture) — has this level of published, verifiable expertise. When you hire EPC Group, you are hiring the people who literally wrote the books that other consultants study.
Speed-to-Value: EPC Group vs Big Consulting Timeline Comparison
Time-to-value is the single most important metric in consulting engagements. Every week spent in discovery, staffing, and ramp-up is a week without production analytics, without governance, and without ROI. The timeline differences between EPC Group and large consulting firms are dramatic and consistent.
Pricing Transparency: Fixed-Fee vs Time-and-Materials
One of the most common frustrations enterprise buyers report about Big 4 consulting engagements is budget unpredictability. Time-and-materials billing creates open-ended financial exposure where scope expansion, junior-staff learning curves, and extended discovery phases all translate to higher invoices. EPC Group addresses this directly with fixed-fee pricing.
EPC Group's fixed-fee accelerator model defines every deliverable, milestone, and timeline before the engagement begins. Clients know the exact investment upfront — there are no surprise change orders for governance frameworks that should have been included from the start, no additional billings for compliance configurations that are standard in regulated industries, and no extended timelines that inflate costs without delivering proportional value.
EPC Group Fixed-Fee Model
- Quick-Start accelerators from $25,000
- Enterprise implementations $75K-$250K
- All deliverables defined upfront
- Governance and compliance included
- Licensing optimization included
- No change orders for standard scope
Big 4 T&M Model
- - $300-$500/hour blended rates
- - Comparable scope: $200K-$600K+
- - Scope defined iteratively (discovery fees)
- - Compliance as separate workstream (+20-40%)
- - Licensing optimization rarely included
- - 40-60% cost overruns are common
Team Composition: Senior Consultants vs Junior Staff
The team that actually performs the work determines the quality of the outcome. This is where the structural difference between specialist and generalist firms is most apparent. Big 4 firms operate on a pyramid staffing model designed to maximize partner leverage: for every senior architect, there are 8-12 junior consultants performing the hands-on implementation work. This model optimizes for firm economics, not client outcomes.
EPC Group inverts this model. Every engagement is staffed with senior consultants who average 15+ years of Microsoft ecosystem experience. These are not generalists who touched Power BI in a training class last quarter — they are specialists who have configured row-level security in HIPAA environments, optimized DAX queries across billion-row datasets, architected Fabric lakehouses for Fortune 500 data platforms, and guided organizations through complex SharePoint migrations involving tens of thousands of users.
Typical Engagement Team Comparison
EPC Group (6-person team)
- Principal Architect — 20+ years, Microsoft Press author
- Senior BI Consultant — 15+ years, PL-300/DP-500 certified
- Senior Data Engineer — 12+ years, Azure/Fabric specialist
- Senior SharePoint/M365 Consultant — 15+ years
- Compliance & Security Architect — HIPAA/SOC 2 expert
- Adoption & Training Lead — Change management certified
Big 4 Firm (12-person team)
- - Partner/Director — 10% time allocation, sales-focused
- - Senior Manager — 25% time, manages multiple clients
- - Manager — Project management, limited technical depth
- - 3 Senior Analysts — 3-5 years experience, generalists
- - 4 Junior Analysts — 1-3 years experience, doing bulk of work
- - 2 Offshore Developers — Variable quality, time-zone challenges
EPC Group vs Big 4 Consulting: Full Comparison
A side-by-side comparison across 12 dimensions that matter most to enterprise buyers evaluating Microsoft consulting partners.
| Dimension | EPC Group | Big 4 / Global Firms |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Focus | 100% Microsoft ecosystem | Multi-vendor (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft) |
| Team Seniority | Senior consultants (15+ years avg.) | Junior/mid-level staff (2-5 years avg.) |
| Pricing Model | Fixed-fee accelerators from $25K | Time & materials ($300-$500/hr) |
| Time to Production | 4-8 weeks (standard) | 12-24 weeks (typical) |
| Published Expertise | 4 Microsoft Press books | Internal whitepapers only |
| Compliance Built-In | HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP standard | Compliance as add-on workstream |
| Licensing Optimization | Included (30-40% avg. savings) | Rarely included; benefits from larger deployments |
| End-User Adoption Rate | 85%+ adoption rate | 40-60% typical adoption |
| Post-Implementation Support | 24/7 managed services, same team | Offshore help desk, different team |
| Global Scale | 6 U.S. offices, strategic global delivery | 100+ global offices, variable quality |
| Change Management | Integrated into delivery methodology | Separate workstream (additional cost) |
| Client Access to Leadership | Direct CEO and principal access | Account manager layer; leadership rarely available |
Industry-Specific Microsoft Expertise
EPC Group's 25+ years of Microsoft specialization have produced deep expertise in the industries where compliance, security, and precision matter most. Unlike large firms that assign generalist consultants to any industry, EPC Group maintains dedicated practice knowledge for each vertical — including the specific regulatory requirements, data governance standards, and reporting needs that define each sector.
Healthcare (HIPAA)
Power BI deployments with BAAs, Azure Private Link, PHI-safe row-level security, Purview sensitivity labels, and complete audit trails. EPC Group has deployed analytics platforms for hospitals, health systems, and health insurance organizations where HIPAA compliance is a non-negotiable prerequisite — not an optional add-on.
Financial Services (SOC 2)
SOC 2-compliant analytics environments with data loss prevention, conditional access policies, and financial regulatory reporting. EPC Group architects Power BI solutions that satisfy auditor requirements while delivering the real-time visibility financial executives need for risk management, portfolio analytics, and regulatory submissions.
Government (FedRAMP)
FedRAMP-compliant deployments on Microsoft GCC and GCC High environments with CJIS, ITAR, and DFARS compliance as needed. EPC Group understands the unique procurement requirements, data sovereignty regulations, and security frameworks that define government technology deployments at the federal, state, and local levels.
Education (FERPA)
FERPA-compliant analytics for universities, K-12 districts, and education systems. EPC Group deploys Power BI environments that protect student data while enabling enrollment analytics, budget reporting, learning outcome measurement, and institutional effectiveness dashboards that accreditation bodies increasingly require.
Engagement Flexibility: Right-Sized for Every Need
Large consulting firms often require minimum engagement sizes of $200,000+ to justify the overhead of their delivery model. EPC Group offers flexible engagement structures that scale from focused Quick-Start accelerators to multi-year enterprise transformations — without compromising team quality at any size.
Quick-Start Accelerators
4-6 weeks | From $25,000
- 5-10 production dashboards
- Data model optimization
- Governance framework
- End-user training
Enterprise Implementation
8-16 weeks | $75K-$250K
- Full analytics platform
- Premium/Fabric deployment
- Compliance configuration
- CoE establishment
Managed Analytics
Ongoing | Custom pricing
- 24/7 monitoring and support
- Performance optimization
- Continuous improvement
- Quarterly business reviews
Client Success Metrics: The Numbers That Matter
EPC Group measures success by client outcomes, not billable hours. After 25+ years and 600+ enterprise Microsoft engagements, the firm has accumulated a track record of measurable results that consistently outperform industry benchmarks and large-firm averages.
Microsoft Press Bestselling Books
Enterprise Migrations Completed
Years of Microsoft Expertise
Leader Badges Earned
EPC Group Outcomes vs Industry Average
When Large Consulting Firms Are the Right Choice
Objectivity matters. Large consulting firms are the better choice in specific scenarios: when the engagement requires a multi-vendor technology evaluation (Microsoft vs AWS vs GCP), when the organization needs 500+ consultants deployed simultaneously across dozens of countries, or when the project is a multi-year digital transformation spanning SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft simultaneously. In these contexts, the breadth of a firm like Accenture or Cognizant provides genuine value that a specialist cannot replicate.
However, once the decision is made to invest in the Microsoft ecosystem — whether it is Power BI for analytics, SharePoint for collaboration, Azure for cloud infrastructure, or Fabric for the data platform — a Microsoft specialist like EPC Group will consistently deliver faster results, lower costs, higher adoption, and stronger compliance posture than a generalist firm. The question is not whether large firms are competent; it is whether they offer the depth of specialization that enterprise Microsoft implementations demand.
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Learn MoreFrequently Asked Questions: EPC Group vs Big Consulting
Answers to the most common questions enterprise buyers ask when comparing EPC Group to large consulting firms like Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro, Avanade, and Slalom.
How does EPC Group's Power BI implementation methodology compare to Accenture and Cognizant?
EPC Group uses a proprietary Enterprise Analytics Operating Model (EAOM) that delivers production-ready Power BI environments in 4-8 weeks — compared to 12-24 weeks typical of Accenture or Cognizant engagements. The difference is specialization: EPC Group's senior consultants have completed 600+ Microsoft migrations and published 4 Microsoft Press books on the exact technologies being deployed. Accenture and Cognizant use generalist teams that rotate across Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, meaning their Power BI consultants typically have broader but shallower expertise. EPC Group's methodology includes governance frameworks, DAX optimization, row-level security, and licensing right-sizing as standard deliverables — items that are often change-ordered as additions at larger firms.
What makes EPC Group different from other Microsoft Power BI consulting partners like Avanade or Wipro?
Three critical differentiators separate EPC Group from Avanade and Wipro. First, team composition: EPC Group staffs engagements with senior consultants averaging 15+ years of Microsoft experience, while Avanade and Wipro typically assign junior-to-mid-level analysts with 2-5 years of experience and rely on offshore delivery. Second, fixed-fee pricing: EPC Group offers transparent fixed-fee accelerators starting at $25,000, while Avanade and Wipro predominantly use time-and-materials billing that can result in 40-60% cost overruns. Third, direct Microsoft relationship: EPC Group's CEO is a 4-time Microsoft Press bestselling author with direct access to Microsoft product teams, enabling faster resolution of technical issues and early access to features like Copilot for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric capabilities.
How does EPC Group's BI strategy consulting differ from large firms like Cognizant or Capgemini?
EPC Group approaches BI strategy from a Microsoft-native perspective, designing architectures that leverage the full Microsoft stack — Power BI, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Dataverse, and Purview — as an integrated platform. Cognizant and Capgemini often recommend multi-vendor stacks (mixing Tableau with Azure, or Snowflake with Power BI) that create integration complexity and increase long-term costs. EPC Group's strategy engagements also include a licensing optimization audit that has saved clients an average of 30-40% on Microsoft licensing costs. Large firms like Cognizant and Capgemini rarely perform licensing optimization because their revenue models benefit from larger, more complex implementations.
How does EPC Group price its Power BI consulting services compared to Infosys or Capgemini?
EPC Group offers fixed-fee Power BI accelerators starting at $25,000 for Quick-Start implementations (5-10 dashboards, governance framework, training). Enterprise implementations range from $75,000-$250,000 with clearly defined deliverables and no surprise charges. Infosys and Capgemini typically price Power BI engagements on a time-and-materials basis at $300-$500 per hour, with engagements that can easily exceed $500,000 for similar scope due to larger team sizes, offshore coordination overhead, and multi-phase discovery processes. EPC Group's fixed-fee model means clients know the exact investment upfront, and the engagement timeline is compressed by 30-50% because specialized consultants require less ramp-up time.
Why should enterprises choose a Microsoft specialist over a Big 4 consulting firm?
Microsoft specialist firms like EPC Group deliver three measurable advantages over Big 4 firms: faster time-to-value (4-8 weeks vs 12-24 weeks for comparable implementations), lower total cost of ownership (30-50% savings from right-sized licensing and fixed-fee delivery), and higher adoption rates (85%+ end-user adoption vs 40-60% typical of Big 4 implementations). The reason is focus: EPC Group's entire practice — from pre-sales through implementation to managed services — is built around the Microsoft ecosystem. Big 4 firms spread their expertise across dozens of technology platforms, making it impossible to maintain the same depth of knowledge in any single ecosystem.
Does EPC Group work with Fortune 500 companies or only mid-market organizations?
EPC Group serves organizations of all sizes, from mid-market companies to Fortune 500 enterprises. The firm has completed Microsoft implementations for organizations with 10,000+ users across healthcare, financial services, government, and education. What makes EPC Group unique is that Fortune 500 clients receive the same senior-level team composition as mid-market clients — there is no tiered staffing model where larger clients get senior people and smaller clients get junior staff. Every engagement is led by consultants with 15+ years of Microsoft experience, regardless of deal size.
How does EPC Group handle compliance requirements like HIPAA and SOC 2 compared to larger firms?
EPC Group builds compliance into the architecture from day one, rather than treating it as a post-implementation audit. For HIPAA-regulated healthcare organizations, EPC Group deploys Power BI with Business Associate Agreements, Azure Private Link, row-level security, sensitivity labels via Microsoft Purview, and comprehensive audit logging as standard configurations. Larger firms like Accenture or Cognizant often treat compliance as a separate workstream with dedicated (and additional) compliance consultants, which increases cost and extends timelines. EPC Group's compliance expertise is embedded in every consultant's delivery methodology, having completed deployments in hospitals, health systems, financial institutions, and government agencies where compliance is non-negotiable.
What is the typical engagement timeline for EPC Group vs a Big 4 consulting firm?
EPC Group's fixed-fee accelerators deliver production-ready environments in 4-8 weeks for standard implementations. Enterprise-wide rollouts with governance frameworks, compliance configurations, and CoE establishment take 3-6 months. By comparison, Big 4 firms typically require 2-4 weeks for discovery alone, followed by a proposal phase, a staffing ramp-up period, and a 12-24 week implementation cycle. The total engagement with a Big 4 firm often spans 6-12 months for comparable scope. EPC Group's speed advantage comes from having pre-built accelerators, pre-configured governance templates, and senior consultants who do not need weeks of onboarding to understand the technology stack.
Can EPC Group scale to support global enterprise deployments?
Yes. EPC Group supports global deployments through a combination of U.S.-based senior consultants across 6 offices (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Chicago, Washington DC) and a strategic delivery model that leverages Microsoft's global infrastructure. For organizations requiring multi-region Power BI Premium or Fabric capacity, EPC Group architects geo-distributed solutions with proper data residency compliance. The difference from global firms like Wipro or Infosys is that EPC Group maintains consistent quality by keeping senior consultants on every engagement rather than relying on large offshore teams where quality can vary significantly between resources.
What ongoing support does EPC Group provide after implementation compared to large consulting firms?
EPC Group offers managed analytics services with 24/7 support, proactive monitoring, and continuous optimization — not just break-fix support. This includes Power BI performance monitoring, DAX query optimization, data refresh management, licensing reviews, and Fabric capacity management. Large firms typically offer standard SLA-based support through offshore help desks or transition clients to a separate managed services division with different (and often less experienced) staff. EPC Group's managed services team consists of the same senior consultants who built the implementation, ensuring continuity and deep institutional knowledge of each client's environment.
How does EPC Group compare to Slalom for Microsoft consulting?
Slalom excels at organizational change management and has a strong local-market model across 40+ cities. However, EPC Group offers deeper Microsoft technical expertise, particularly in compliance-heavy industries. Slalom consultants are generalists who work across multiple technology platforms; EPC Group consultants are Microsoft specialists with published credentials (4 Microsoft Press books) and 25+ years of focused ecosystem experience. For organizations where compliance requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP) are critical or where advanced Microsoft technologies like Fabric, Copilot, and Purview are part of the roadmap, EPC Group provides a level of depth that Slalom's generalist model cannot match.
What credentials and certifications does EPC Group hold that differentiate them from competitors?
EPC Group's credentials are unmatched in the Microsoft consulting space: 4 bestselling Microsoft Press books (Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and large-scale migrations), Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Data & AI, 25+ years of continuous Microsoft ecosystem practice, 600+ enterprise migrations completed, and specialized compliance certifications for HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP environments. The firm's CEO, Errin O'Connor, is one of the most published Microsoft technology authors in the world and serves as a trusted advisor to Microsoft product teams. No other Microsoft consulting firm of any size combines this depth of published expertise with hands-on enterprise delivery at scale.
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