Accelerate value with Microsoft

Grant Thornton helps organizations harness Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and intelligent agents to streamline operations, automate repetitive work, accelerate decision-making and free employees to focus on higher-value work. By combining business process transformation with the Microsoft AI platform, we move clients from manual, fragmented workflows to intelligent, AI-powered execution.

• Launch AI Assessment — A fixed-scope, 4-week engagement that assesses AI and data readiness, prioritizes use cases and delivers an adoption roadmap with a financial business case with governance, security and Responsible AI built in.
• AI Agents & Agentic AI — Design and deploy production-ready, multi-agent solutions on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and powered by Microsoft Fabric. We turn your enterprise data into intelligent action. So you can scale AI automation with confidence.
• AI Process Automation — Intelligent last-mile automation with Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Azure Logic Apps, embedding AI-driven decisioning into the high-friction steps that ERP and CRM platforms leave untouched.
• Machine Learning & MLOps — Build, train, deploy and manage predictive models using Microsoft Fabric Data Science, Azure Machine Learning and MLflow. We help organizations identify high-value ML use cases, prepare quality data, compare model performance, operationalize scoring and inferencing, and establish repeatable MLOps practices for monitoring, retraining and continuous improvement.
• AI Governance & FinOps — Establish the operating model, controls, and financial visibility needed to scale AI responsibly. We help clients govern Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and AI agents with clear ownership, usage policies, access controls, monitoring, and value tracking — while applying FinOps practices to manage consumption, forecast demand, optimize spend, and align AI investments to measurable business outcomes.

AI is transforming how organizations operate, serve customers, and grow — yet many can't move beyond isolated pilots because their data is fragmented, inaccessible, or not ready for AI at scale. We help organizations build the foundation to unlock the full value of AI. Our Data Modernization approach identifies, prioritizes, and accelerates the initiatives that deliver the greatest business impact in the shortest time.

• AI + Data Readiness — Assess the quality, accessibility, governance, and business relevance of your data to determine where AI can create the greatest impact. We help prioritize high-value use cases, sequence the data initiatives required to support them, and establish the foundation for scalable AI with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric.
• Data Estate Modernization — Unify fragmented ERP, CRM, operational, and legacy data into a governed, AI-ready foundation on Microsoft Fabric. We help improve data quality, define reusable data products, and accelerate trusted analytics, Copilot, and AI use cases.
• Analytics & Insights — Transform enterprise data into actionable business intelligence with Power BI, advanced analytics, and Microsoft Fabric. We help define the right KPIs, build intuitive dashboards, and deliver self-service reporting that gives leaders faster visibility into performance, trends, and opportunities.

Technology modernization is now a business imperative. We combine deep industry expertise with leading cloud and AI capabilities from Microsoft to help organizations simplify complexity, increase productivity, drive innovation and turn technology investments into measurable business value.

• Cloud Migration & Azure Foundations — Plan, migrate and optimize workloads on Azure using secure, scalable AI enabled landing zones, Azure Migrate and Azure Arc. We help clients reduce technical debt, improve resilience and create a cloud foundation that supports AI, analytics and future growth.
• App Portfolio and Legacy Modernization — Modernize legacy applications by re-platforming, refactoring or rebuilding them with Azure App Service, containers, APIs and cloud-native architectures. We help improve scalability, performance, security and speed to market while aligning modernization priorities to business outcomes.
• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering — Build resilient, automated platforms with Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, infrastructure as code and modern operating models. We help teams standardize deployments, improve reliability, strengthen observability and lower run costs through automation and proactive management.
• AI Engineering — Design, build and operationalize production-grade AI applications, copilots and agents using Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Search and modern cloud-native engineering practices. We help clients move from prototypes to scalable AI solutions with secure architecture, enterprise data integration, model evaluation, observability, responsible AI controls and lifecycle management built in.

AI is creating new opportunities for growth, but also introducing new risks. We help secure modern enterprises by protecting data, strengthening cyber resilience, governing AI responsibly and empowering employees to work safely with AI. Together with Microsoft, we help clients reduce risk, increase trust and unlock the full business value of AI-driven transformation.

• Data Security & AI Governance — Classify, label and protect sensitive data with Microsoft Purview, with policy and oversight for safe AI adoption. We help establish data loss prevention, sensitivity labeling, retention and monitoring practices that reduce exposure risk while enabling trusted AI use across the enterprise.
• AI & Agent Governance — Govern and secure AI agents at scale with Microsoft Agent 365 and Entra Agent ID — identity, access, and observability across Microsoft and third-party agents. We help clients inventory agents, assign ownership, enforce least-privilege access and monitor agent activity so AI can scale without creating unmanaged risk.
• Identity & Access Management — Secure access with Microsoft Entra ID, privileged access management and Zero Trust. We help modernize identity controls with conditional access, lifecycle governance, role-based permissions and stronger protection for both human and nonhuman identities.
• Threat Protection & Cloud Security — Detect and respond to threats across hybrid environments with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. We help strengthen cloud security posture, improve incident response and unify threat visibility across identities, endpoints, applications, data and workloads.

As organizations expand cloud and AI investments, managing costs, consumption and value realization has become a strategic capital allocation priority. Grant Thornton helps clients gain visibility into cloud, AI and Microsoft spend — improving financial accountability, reducing waste and informing smarter investment decisions. By connecting spend optimization to business outcomes, we help organizations redirect capital toward the modernization, AI and growth initiatives that create the greatest value.

• Cloud FinOps — Gain visibility and control over cloud spend with Microsoft Cost Management, Azure Advisor, budgets, tagging and allocation models. We help teams identify cost optimization, improve forecasting, assign ownership, optimize commitments and create the financial accountability needed to reinvest savings into higher-value modernization and innovation priorities.
• AI FinOps — Monitor all Microsoft cloud-hosted AI usage to manage consumption, forecast growth and prove business value. We help establish usage reporting, cost guardrails, value tracking and optimization practices so organizations can scale AI responsibly while avoiding surprise spend and aligning investment to measurable outcomes.
• Microsoft Investment Optimization — Evaluate your Microsoft licensing and Azure environment against evolving Microsoft bundles, features and business needs. We help clients identify cost savings, reduce underutilized licenses and take advantage of new AI, security and productivity capabilities that elevate the value of their Microsoft investment.

Grant Thornton - MCA Connect help organizations modernize core business processes with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, connecting finance, sales, service and operations on one unified platform. Our team of dedicated Microsoft and industry experts replace disconnected business systems with intelligent, AI-driven workflows that scale and drive better business outcomes.

• Dynamics 365: Finance & Supply Chain (ERP) — Modernize finance and operations with connected supply chain, manufacturing and financial management capabilities. We help organizations improve visibility, optimize planning and drive efficiency across the enterprise with AI-powered, data-driven ERP solutions.
• Dynamics 365: Customer Experience (Sales, Service & Operations) — Transform how you engage customers across sales, service and project operations. We enable connected customer journeys, streamline processes and equip teams with AI-driven insights and Copilot-assisted workflows to improve responsiveness, productivity and growth.
• Power Platform — Accelerate innovation with low-code apps, automation and analytics using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Copilot Studio. We help clients analyze data, automate workflows and build scalable solutions, embedding AI-driven insights directly into day-to-day business processes.