Apgar Azure Offering
In 16 June 2025
Turn Azure into a Business Value Engine
Where do we start?
How do we deliver quick results without losing the long-term view?
These are the questions many leaders ask when they look at their growing Azure ecosystem. With endless tools and technologies, it’s easy to launch initiatives — but far harder to connect them, scale them, and extract real value.
The Apgar Azure Offering brings clarity to that challenge.
We combine business understanding, governance rigor, and deep technical expertise — and organize everything we do through a simple but powerful structure: the three-path approach enabled by Apgar Pathfinder.
What Business Challenges Do We Solve?
We help organizations that feel stuck between fragmented projects, underused tools, and growing expectations from business units.
Common challenges we address:
- Teams lack a shared roadmap, with initiatives running in silos
- Valuable data is underused or unreliable
- Use cases exist, but no one knows where to start
- Tools are deployed, but value is still waiting
We solve this by aligning every technical and governance decision to clear business priorities.
Not just platforms. Not just use cases. But everything — connected and sequenced for results.
The Apgar Azure Offering, Organized to Deliver
We organize our offering into three strategic paths. These paths ensure that every accelerator, advisory service, and platform initiative supports what matters most: business value.
2. Business Value Path
Start where the impact is.
Here we identify and deliver business solutions that address clear pain points and strategic opportunities. These aren’t experiments — they’re ready-to-deploy, Azure-native initiatives designed to move the needle.
What we deliver:
- ApgarIA Predictive Maintenance
Detect equipment failures in advance and reduce downtime across operations. - ApgarIA Demand Forecasting
Improve planning accuracy, optimize inventory levels, and reduce lost sales. - ApgarIA Production Planning & Scheduling
Align production schedules with capacity and demand — improve flow, reduce bottlenecks. - Automated Master Data Creation
Accelerate data onboarding and improve MDM quality using smart generation models. - Data Accessibility & Discovery Assistants
Help business users find the data they need — structured and unstructured — with natural language. - Virtual Assistants & Smart Agents
Support employees and clients through intelligent, Azure-based assistants tailored to specific functions.
These initiatives are delivered as accelerators or tailored solutions. Each one solves a business challenge, with defined KPIs, short deployment timelines, and immediate impact.
The identification and prioritization of these solutions is guided by our Apgar Pathfinder framework — which also helps define a Quick Win (MVP) to act on first.
2. Data Foundation Path
Build the trust layer.
Business value is only sustainable when the data is trusted, governed, and secure. This path focuses on activating the foundations that make scaling possible — without slowing you down.
What we deliver:
- Frameworks for data governance, ownership, and policy enforcement
- Master & Reference Data Management
- Quality control and lifecycle monitoring
- Implementation and activation of Microsoft Purview
- Literacy and enablement across Data & AI roles
- AI Governance aligned with ethical standards and upcoming regulation
Every initiative here is tied to enabling business priorities. No abstract governance. Just practical, value-linked controls and guardrails.
3. Data Platform Path
Design a platform that enables — not overwhelms.
In this path, we activate the technical architecture needed to power your use cases and maintain agility. We work with Azure-native tools, but always with interoperability and scalability in mind.
What we deliver:
- Design and build of data platforms using Azure Synapse, ADF, Fabric, Azure ML, Power BI
- High-level architectures using Azure Well-Architected and AI Well-Architected principles
- Real-time and batch data integration, automation, and monitoring
- Platform observability and health frameworks
- Integration of MDM solutions like Semarchy, CluedIn and Tibco EBX or data catalog solutions like DataGalaxy, and others into the Azure ecosystem
- Fast-track deployment tools based on Apgar Enablement and Business Solutions.
The result is a platform that doesn’t just store data — it enables real use, real decisions, and real scale.
Two Ways to Engage
We offer two delivery tracks — both powered by the same capabilities and accelerators. The difference is in how you want to begin:
Fast Track
Launch a ready-to-deploy accelerator or business solution.
- Ideal for solving a known problem fast
- Leverages Apgar’s Azure-native accelerators
- Designed to deliver results in 6–10 weeks
- Supported by best practices and proven architecture
Strategic Track
Use Apgar Pathfinder to define your roadmap.
- Collaborative and cross-functional engagement
- Aligns business goals, governance needs, and technical strategy
- Identifies a Quick Win (MVP) as part of the roadmap
- Lays out the Foundation and Platform needs to scale
Real-World Impact
Here’s what happens when clients use the Apgar Azure Offering the right way:
- A global manufacturer reduced downtime by 25% with predictive maintenance dashboards deployed in Azure Synapse and Power BI.
- A CPG leader improved forecast accuracy by 20% in under two months with our demand forecasting accelerator.
- A national retailer activated over 100 data consumers using a search assistant powered by Azure OpenAI and structured metadata from Purview.
- A European life sciences company deployed full MDM governance in under 12 weeks, improving regulatory alignment and decision-making agility.
What Makes the Apgar Azure Offering Different?
We bring more than technical expertise.
- We understand that value comes first — and everything else serves that.
- We sequence, structure, and activate the right mix of governance, platform, and use cases.
- We use Apgar Pathfinder not as a product, but as a way to make all of this coherent and easy to act on.
It’s not just about what Azure can do.
It’s about what your business should do next — and how we help make it happen.
APGAR designs and delivers innovative data and AI solutions and supports clients with expert advisory services to ensure successful adoption and longterm value. With a team of over 230 data and AI experts, APGAR combines product development, integration, and advisory capabilities to help companies turn data into a strategic advantage.
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