Encora Has Earned Nine Microsoft Specializations
Nine Microsoft Specializations and Microsoft Foundry Partner Council Membership Demonstrate Full-Stack Cloud Capabilities
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 18, 2025 - Encora, a global digital engineering and technology services company, today announced it has earned nine Microsoft specializations, including eight Microsoft Azure specializations, a validation of a services partner’s deep knowledge, extensive experience and proven success in enabling customer adoption of AI and implementing Azure solutions.
Encora's nine specializations demonstrate validated expertise across Microsoft's Cloud & AI Platform such as Infrastructure & Modernization, Security, Data & Intelligence, and AI & Application Innovation. These validated capabilities enable Encora to help customers deploy AI solutions, modernize applications, and enhance developer efficiency across on-premises, multicloud, and edge environments.
As the speed of business accelerates, organizations of every type and size are looking for ways to streamline processes and deliver simpler, faster, and smarter resources to help them keep up.
Encora is a member of the Microsoft Foundry Partner Council, an invite-only group of partners working with Microsoft's product teams on developing best practices for Microsoft Foundry to enable enterprise-grade agentic AI, governance, and orchestration.
"Achieving nine Microsoft specializations demonstrates our full-stack capability across the Microsoft Cloud. Enterprises need partners who can operate across infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, data unification with Microsoft Fabric, and productivity transformation with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot - with security and governance embedded throughout. These specializations validate Encora's capability to deliver outcome-based AI transformation," said Andrew Greene, SVP, Head of Ecosystems & Partnerships at Encora.
As an Enterprise Systems Integrator (ESI) partner, Encora provides clients with access to Microsoft's engineering teams and product roadmaps, enabling faster problem resolution and early access to platform capabilities. This supports the deployment of complex, multi-cloud, and AI-native solutions for clients across Financial Services, Healthcare, and Retail.
Andrew Smith, General Manager, Partner Program Management at Microsoft added “Microsoft Azure specializations are attained by the partners who can be viewed as most capable when it comes to implementing solutions across Microsoft's Cloud & AI Platform. Encora clearly demonstrated that they have both the skills and the experience to enabling customer adoption of Infrastructure & Modernization, Security, Data & Intelligence, and AI & Application Innovation in Microsoft Azure specialization.”
About Encora
Encora is a global digital engineering company built for a new era of AI-powered businesses. Forged in Silicon Valley, we grew up serving digital natives who demanded speed, scale, and flawless experiences. Today, we bring that same DNA to enterprises worldwide, enabling speed and hyper-adaptability, moving them further along their quest to become more composable and agile.
With two decades at the convergence of Cloud, Data, and AI, we help organizations move beyond rigid, legacy models to become composable enterprises, through adaptive systems designed to sense change and reconfigure in real time. More than 9,500 engineers, designers, and domain experts across the Americas, Europe, India, and Southeast Asia give Encora the ability to combine nearshore agility with global scale. Backed by Advent International and Warburg Pincus, we deliver innovation acceleration and modernization across industries, powered by Encora AIVA™, our orchestration platform for AI-native engineering.
We believe the future won't be built by humans or machines alone, but by human creativity amplified by limitless machine intelligence. At Encora, that's how we help our clients build fast and adapt faster.