
Solution Architect
Accelerate Innovative Solutions and Reduce Costs
Solution Architect Responsibilities
- Design IT solutions that solve business problems and give your company a competitive advantage.
- Use Microsoft technologies for servers and desktops, and additionally communication, business intelligence, collaboration, and security, to design IT solutions.
Business Challenges
- Constant pressure to deliver IT solutions that support the priorities and strategies of senior management.
- Microsoft technologies could help, but too many options are changing too fast to keep up with.
- Many Microsoft products do the same thing. Sorting out the differences is hard.
- Searching the Web for answers is unproductive, and Microsoft is slow to answer basic questions.
Our Solution for the Solution Architect
Directions is an all-in-one-place source of accurate, organized, and impartial information and advice about Microsoft technologies. You spend less time researching, more time building solutions.

Product & Cloud Service Roadmaps
Get the forward-looking information you need to budget your purchases and plan your migrations with confidence. Spot disruptive events while there’s still time to do something about it.

Product Reports
Understand the technical underpinnings and strategic significance of Microsoft technologies that represent opportunities to deliver new solutions to your organization. Read less and know more.

Webinars, Podcast, & Videos
Get up to speed on Microsoft technologies, roadmaps, and licensing policies in the most time-efficient way possible.

Licensing Boot Camp
Equip your IT planners and procurement team with the knowledge and understanding they need to keep your organization compliant without overbuying.

Expert Desk Advisory Service
Get authoritative and impartial answers to your most urgent Microsoft technology and licensing questions. Engage with Microsoft subject matter experts who become an extension of your team and add confidence to your most strategic decisions.

Executive Focus
Cut through the fog of Microsoft confusion. Independent industry experts share insight and information you can’t get anywhere else on the advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft technologies for solving top-of-mind problems.