Microsoft Azure Services
At Zitec, we hold the necessary expertise to modernize all types of solutions.
Wherever you are on your cloud journey, our experts will help you transform your business
with technical and commercial expertise in application modernization and Azure.
HARNESS THE POWER OF AZURE
Discover how Azure’s capabilities and built-in services help you optimize business processes, extend effectiveness, and empower your team.
Reduced Customer TCO
Client Opportunities
Data-Driven Decisions
Automation & DevOps
Security & Compliance
Ongoing Support
MIGRATE, MODERNIZE AND INNOVATE
Lots of money is invested into building or maintaining the legacy systems and solutions, and the outdated software infrastructures. This can lead to various risks, such as: security threats, business interruptions caused by poor performance, as well as the unwanted loss of customers that expect superior services, speed, and performance from their service providers.
If you’re someone who develops, markets, and sells software solutions that run on third party software and hardware platforms, looking to maximize your cloud investment, or are just starting to transform your business, the Zitec team can help with your Azure Cloud Migration success.
USE CASE STUDY
For the past few years, we have helped numerous businesses across the globe move the existing workloads to or develop
new, secure and scalable applications in Azure.
Increasing performance, better transparency
GSX Value Chain is quite a unique company specializing in spare parts materials management for tier 1 global manufacturing organizations. The company discovered a powerful new way to optimize internal production—a smart algorithm that helps global manufacturers with spare parts optimization.
For the solution to work on this scale, GSX improved its infrastructure by moving it to Microsoft Azure with the Zitec team’s help. This move has resulted in substantial time savings on a critical client process, which now takes 15 minutes instead of four to six hours. The move has led to increased performance and flexibility and better transparency as it’s now easier to navigate a reverse lookup in process.
SUPPORTING YOUR GROWTH
Through the adoption of Microsoft Azure Cloud technology, you gain access to the right resources and tools that can accelerate your business, grow the revenues and reach more customers. Our team of cloud application and infrastructure experts will accelerate your journey to the cloud and get you there securely and smoothly.
1Assessment & Migration Services (Envisioned Cloud)
1.Cloud Adoption Strategy
- Envisioning workshop
- Business outcomes definition
- Stakeholder alignment
- Digital estate rationalization
- Architectural plan definition
- Project prioritization
- Costs & ROI forecast
2.Cloud Migration
- Data infrastructure lift-and-shift migration
- Data migration
- Backup implementation
- Disaster recovery
- App re-platforming
- Application Deployment Automation
2Transformation Services (Optimized Cloud)
1.Cloud Infrastructure Audit
- Resource usage analysis
- Cost efficiency analysis
- Infrastructure architecture analysis
- Performance efficiency analysis
2.Application Modernization
- Application containerization
- Container orchestration
- Data re-architecturization and migration
- Integration of serverless concepts
- DevOps pipeline implementation
- Highly Available Setups
3Productivity & Collaboration
1.Modern Workplace migration
- Cloud-based email setup and migration
- Document & file collaboration setup
- Content migration
- Office applications adoption
- Online meeting management via Microsoft Teams
- Device management and security
4Reselling Services (Direct Cloud)
1.Microsoft Azure
- Offline (invoice-based) billing
- Wire transfer payments
- Cost control services
- Access to direct support
- Free of charge Microsoft support
2.Microsoft 365
- Offline (invoice-based) billing
- Wire transfer payments
- Cost planning
- Access to direct support
3.Power BI
- Offline (invoice-based) billing
- Wire transfer payments
- Access to direct support
- Free of charge Microsoft support
5Training Services
1.Microsoft Azure
- Foundations: infrastructure services (compute, networking, storage), basic data management
- Advanced: DevOps, advanced data management, identity management, API integrations
2.Microsoft 365
- Foundations: user management & single sign-on, service provisioning, data migration, productivity best practices, cloud storage
3.Power BI
- Foundations: integrating with various data sources, data visualization basics
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
Building Romania’s largest digitally-enabled logistics company

Company overview
Our customer is the first and currently the only express delivery company in Romania offering same-day shipping to national and international destinations.
With more than 14 years of experience in the Romanian courier industry, the company is an outstanding example of success through innovation – they invested massively in technology in order to build a business model that is easily adaptable to market conditions and to quickly respond to the needs of their customers.
With a digital-first philosophy, by shifting to the cloud and embracing open source technologies, the company underwent a spectacular digital metamorphosis and 7-fold increase in revenue in just 4 years.
Speeding up the digital transformation process
Our shared journey to reinvent the customer’s delivery system and revolutionize customer experience, began in 2017, with a 3-year goal to build a scalable logistics software platform and modernize the entire IT infrastructure to support an ambitious business growth plan:
- Expand operations and revenue at a very high pace
- Achieving the best SLA of all couriers on the market: to deliver 90 out of 100 parcels on time
- Increase the coverage network
Zitec was the company chosen by the customer to lead this fundamental digital transformation and, until 2020, we have successfully built various disparate components that would represent a scalable foundation to serve the accelerated business growth:
- The core software system was built from scratch by Zitec, covering all areas of the business – from parcel delivery management to invoicing, courier incentive and payout management
- Software development of a Warehouse Management System (WMS) to integrate the new logistic infrastructure into the company’s new core software system. The Warehouse Management System (WMS) supports daily activity in the logistics center for 450 employees and the entire fleet transiting the hub. Up to 35,000 packages are processed each hour.
- Software development of the Onboarding application for registering new customers in the customer’s network.
- Development of the software controlling over 1000 lockers and integration with the core system
- Migration of existing infrastructure to the cloud in order to provide resiliency (improved uptime) and scalability
The challenge – providing scalability and resilience during COVID
No year comes close to 2020 in terms of impact on the courier industry and society as a whole, as the onset of the pandemic resulted in a sharp rise in demand and forced logistics companies to quickly scale in order to ensure prompt delivery of essential goods to large masses of people who were suddenly confined to their homes.
Given these circumstances, our customer once again turned to Zitec and asked us to come up with an accelerated transformation plan that would ensure swift scaling of the operations platform as well as to define a strategy and solution for storing and analyzing large volumes of data.
The solution – Embracing open source technologies and the cloud
Because the customer’s needs required a multitude of competencies, we started with a unified digitalization strategy and then delegated the implementation of each project to specialized teams.
The core operations platforms were built exclusively on open source technologies – Linux, PHP & Symfony framework for the application environment, MySQL and Redis for data storage, Docker for application packaging and delivery, RabbitMQ for asynchronous tasks and, of course, Microsoft Azure as the infrastructure platform. The application was built to easily scale horizontally to several times its current size and leverages managed cloud services in order to reduce operational overhead and ensure high availability and resilience.
The infrastructure team made sure that all the services were properly secured using encryption for both data in transit and at rest, a single entry point for all web traffic thanks to Application Gateway and its built-in Web Application Firewall.
One of the most impactful wins for last year was the adoption of Azure Synapse Analytics as the company’s platform of choice for a multitude of data warehousing scenarios, complementing their existing BI stack.

Results
Throughout 2020, our customer was able to:
- increase the revenue by 100% and scale the platform beyond the initial estimates
- increase the locker network by ~250%, reaching close to 1000 deployments
- define a long-term data warehousing strategy that will help them access essential reports in near-real time
- successfully execute a record-breaking Black Friday event that translated into over 7.000.000 delivered packages, and approximately 150.000 new customers acquired through digital channels.
Microsoft Azure played a significant role in the company’s successful digital transformation and the platform now powers all vital areas of the company – from the operations platforms to BI (Qlik and Synapse), physical locker management, parcel sorters and many others.
AZURE MIGRATION PROCESS
Accelerate your move to Microsoft’s Azure platform, plan smarter, capitalize on opportunities, collaborate better, and launch faster.
Discover & Assess
Our team will conduct a high-level assessment to understand the next steps for your cloud migration.
Design, Plan & Prioritize
We will produce an Azure Application Framework specifically for your app to make it secure, performant, and highly available.
Migrate & Modernize
Zitec will execute the migration plan, and move your app to Azure using automated deployment methods.
Monitor & Manage
We will ensure that your app is secure, available and performant through designated alerting and monitoring systems.
ACCELERATE YOUR GROWTH WITH AZURE
Discover how Azure’s capabilities and built-in services help you optimize business processes, extend effectiveness, and empower your team.
Whether you are looking to accelerate your move to cloud, need extra expertise to manage your existing Azure environment or look to modernize your solution by leveraging Azure’s PaaS features, our team of DevOps, infrastructure and software engineers are available to help along every step of your journey.
Leverage our expertise to accelerate yours. Book a complimentary session with our experts