Opinov8 Digital and Engineering Solutions has expanded its Microsoft Solutions Partner specializations to include Azure Data & AI and Azure Infrastructure, strengthening its ability to help organizations modernize data platforms, build AI solutions, and transform cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
These new specializations have been added to Digital & App Innovation, earned earlier in 2026.
Opinov8 was already a designated Microsoft Solutions Partner. It met Microsoft's requirements for these two additional solution areas, a reflection of the technical expertise, customer deployments, and Azure usage the company has built up over time.
The expansion reinforces something Opinov8 has been leaning into for a while: helping organizations tackle AI, data engineering, cloud modernization, infrastructure, and software development as one connected effort rather than separate workstreams.
The Azure Data & AI solution area lines up closely with work Opinov8 already does (helping organizations build modern data foundations and put AI to work on real business and operational problems. That includes data platform modernization, AI and machine learning development, ML pipeline modernization and MLOps, analytics and BI, AI application development, and cloud-based data architectures) plus the less glamorous but necessary job of modernizing legacy data environments that were never built for AI workloads.
Microsoft evaluates partners for this solution path on performance, technical skill, and customer success, including certified expertise, verified customer deployments, and Azure usage growth. Qualifying for it isn't automatic: it reflects a track record.
The Azure Infrastructure addition rounds things out on the cloud and infrastructure side. Opinov8's work here spans Azure cloud migration and modernization, legacy application modernization, cloud infrastructure architecture, DevOps and CI/CD, cloud operations, and building application environments that can actually scale and stay resilient under load.
Put together, the infrastructure and application engineering sides give organizations a way to modernize their technology environment while building the cloud foundation that data-intensive and AI-powered applications actually need to run well.
Microsoft currently groups Azure Data & AI, Digital & App Innovation, and Infrastructure under its customer-facing Solutions Partner for Cloud & AI Platforms designation: these solution paths are still the backbone of how Microsoft qualifies and specializes its partners.
For Opinov8, the expanded Azure capabilities plug directly into the rest of its engineering work: AI consulting, custom software development, data engineering, cloud solutions, and legacy modernization.
"Expanding our Microsoft Solutions Partner capabilities across Azure Data & AI and Infrastructure reflects the breadth of engineering expertise we bring to complex modernization initiatives," said Craig Wilson, Co-CEO at Opinov8. "Our customers increasingly need to modernize applications, data platforms, and infrastructure together. These capabilities strengthen our ability to help them move from fragmented or legacy environments toward scalable cloud and AI solutions."
In practice, this means Opinov8 is better positioned to help organizations build practical AI solutions on solid cloud foundations: everything from data and ML platforms to enterprise applications and the intelligent workflows that run on top of them.
As organizations push further into cloud adoption and AI initiatives, the data and infrastructure architecture underneath it all has become one of the biggest factors in whether modernization efforts actually succeed. It's easy to underestimate: but a shaky data or infrastructure foundation is usually where AI projects stall out before they ever reach production.
Opinov8 combines software engineering, cloud, data, and AI capabilities to help enterprises design, build, modernize, and operate technology platforms suited to what their business actually needs.
With its expanded Microsoft Solutions Partner capabilities in Azure Data & AI and Azure Infrastructure, Opinov8 continues to build out its position as an engineering partner for organizations pursuing cloud modernization, data transformation, and AI adoption.
Opinov8 Digital and Engineering Solutions is an AI-Native company providing custom software development, AI consulting, data engineering, and cloud solutions. Founded in 2017, Opinov8 helps organizations design, build, modernize, and operate digital products and technology platforms. Its engineering capabilities span AI, machine learning, data, cloud infrastructure, application modernization, and software development.
