Revenue: £326.8m (+48%)
Headcount: 1,040
The UK arm of this global Microsoft partner added over £100m to its top line in its year to 31 August 2022 as 2021 acquisition Quantiq (a specialist in Microsoft Dynamics) boosted its numbers. A joint venture between Microsoft and majority owner Accenture, $2bn-revenue, US-headquartered Avanade claims to hold over 60,000 certifications in Microsoft technology. November 2023 saw it launch six Microsoft 365 Copilot services.
Avanade paid £63.2m for Quantiq in November 2021, its UK accounts reveal.
Oxygen ice-breaker: Avanade recently partnered with Anglian Water and Microsoft to “test the world’s first ecological digital twin of a chalk stream” for the River Stiffkey in Norfolk, using Azure.
