AI @ Scale with Avanade’s
MLOps Framework
Last Revised October 2022
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Contents
Business Need and Value Proposition
Avanade’s Point of View
Offering: ML Ops Framework
Why Avanade?
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• 60% time of data science projects is spent ondata wrangling2• 10% time is spent on developing algorithm
powering the solution2

Limited ex-ante planning for activities &budget post proof of concept

Absence of architecture that allows
models to scale
No clear model route to live and roadmap

Poor skillset for maintaining and deploying models
No clear accountability of model governanceNo framework for quality assurance
Limited monitoring and logging in place

REFERENC ES | 1 Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021, Gartner (Link) | 2 Based on Accenture Canada Data Science & ML Engineering experience©2022 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. <Highly Confidential>

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Industry Pain Points
Out-Dated ML models

Effort and Time

Platform Collaboration

Governance

Shortage of collaboration among Azure resources.
Complementing Azure stack capabilities allows ML lifecycle
enhancements.

Urge for continuous monitoring, version control & rolecollaboration. Businesses incur in costly audit processes inorder to ensure compliance.

Reproducibility and Scalability

Value Realization

Lack of model maintenance processes. Even if model decay isidentified, organizations cannot regularly update models inproductions because of resource intensive ML cycles.

Need of re-usable & modifiable ML + Ops pipelines.
Exigency for growth on demand for speed and volume ofmodel executions.

Extensive effort and time resources from different personas:
data engineers, data scientist & DevOps engineers navigating
manual pipelines that leads to slower deployments withincreased quality and consistency.

Many businesses have not realized the benefits of AI becausemodels have not been productionized.

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4Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)

Avanade’s MLOps Framework is an Azure andDatabricks based accelerator that allows users
to train, deploy and monitor ML projects fromdevelopment to productive environments touncover critical data insights
and deliver faster time to market.

Outcomes:✓ Faster Insight discovery and time
to market✓ Lower cost of data analysis✓ Host hundreds of models incentral location✓ Consistency and governance©2022 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. <Highly Confidential>

5Our Point of View
on MLOps
As a process at large, we see MLOPs as
more than an opportunity, but rather anenterprise-lifestyle change in how you
manage and control your ML lifecycle
today.

Swift Innovation
Enhanced reusable pipelines and automatedconfigurations with a minimum requirementof human intervention.​

Have flexibility and scalability
Built in cloud to scale to hundreds of ML
models that can be deployed in different
deployment environments

Trust your own data insights
Your machine learning operations will
be monitored, consistent, and trustworthy.
Above all you will have full control of it.

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Avanade’s MLOps Framework
Accelerating AI @ Scale with Avanade’s MLOps Framework acrossboth pure Azure plays as well as hybrid Databricks & Azure.
Business Need

Value Proposition

ApproachBusinesses face challenges scalingand ensuring they realize thevalue from their AI / data science
projects. Key challenges include:

Avanade’s MLOps Framework
accelerates the end-to-end
management of ML models at
scale to uncover critical data andbusiness insights and deliver
faster time to market. Key value
proposition includes:

Our standardized MLOps delivery
approach has been delivered,refined and enhanced based on
many large global enterpriseclients MLOps deployments. The
approach typically includes.

• IT/Analytics teams spending
more time on data wrangling
than model development.
• Poor skillsets for maintaining
and deploying models leading
to out-dated ML models• No clear accountability ofmodel governance or ability tocollaborate across the platform• Absence of architecture thatallows reproducibility andscalability• Highly configurable andcustomizable framework toalign with current architecture• Automated end-to-end ML
lifecycle that optimizes client’s
total cost for ML• Multiple models can betrained, packaged, comparedand deployed leading to fasterinsight discovery• Built in cloud for solutions toscale to any size

Discovery & Demonstration
showcasing MLOps framework..
MLOps Value Assessment to
identify requirements, understandvalue proposition for stakeholders
and define high level roadmap.
MLOps MVP deploying anMLOps MVP in 12 weeks
MLOps as a Service providing
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Offering: Avanade MLOps Framework
What we will deliver
An MLOps framework that supports theend-to-end management of ML models
at scale to uncover critical data andbusiness insights and deliver faster time
to market.
Covers both pure Azure stack andhybrid of Azure & Databricks.

Typical outcomes
Automated end-to-end Machine
Learning life-cycle that optimizes
client's total cost for ML. ​Multiple models can be trained,packaged, compared and deployedleading to faster insight discovery.​

Typical delivery timeframe
12 Week MVP with ability toprovide ongoing Managed
Services / MLOPs as a Service
support

Adapts to business and projectrequirements by allowing the use ofdifferent ML deployment
environments.​
Built in cloud for solutions to scale toany size.

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Let’s get
startedContacts:
David GormleyDavid.Gormley@avanade.com
Marco Ng
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