Telefónica Tech has successfully renewed its Microsoft AI on Azure Advanced Specialisation following its 2025 audit.

This marks the third consecutive year Telefónica Tech has held the specialisation, first earned in 2023, and now reaffirmed in 2025 through a full independent audit. The result underlines Telefónica Tech’s ongoing excellence in delivering responsible, enterprise-grade AI solutions across industries.

The Value of the Microsoft AI on Azure Advanced Specialisation

Holding the Microsoft AI on Azure Advanced Specialisation demonstrates Telefónica Tech’s proven expertise and deep technical capability in deploying AI solutions built on Microsoft Azure.

This accreditation provides customers with the assurance that Telefónica Tech:

• Meets the highest standards set by Microsoft for AI solution design, security, and delivery.
• Has a certified, experienced team proficient in the latest Azure AI and machine learning tools including Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure AI Search.
• Follows best practices in AI governance, ethics, and responsible deployment, helping organisations innovate safely and sustainably.
• Gains direct access to Microsoft engineering, resources, and co-innovation programmes, accelerating time-to-value for clients.
• Provides access to Microsoft funding opportunities for customers to de-risk AI adoption supporting proof-of-concept development, cloud migration, and AI capability building at reduced cost.

This achievement also reinforces Telefónica Tech’s strategic partnership with Microsoft, built on a shared vision to help organisations realise the full value of AI responsibly and securely.

For customers, partnering with a provider that holds this advanced specialisation means greater confidence in the quality, scalability, and impact of AI solutions delivered on the Microsoft cloud.

Why Telefónica Tech for Artificial Intelligence?

Telefónica Tech’s partners with organisations across sectors including financial services, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and the public sector to drive business decisions through intelligent data and AI solutions.

From predictive analytics and Agentic automation to secure data platforms and generative AI solutions, Telefónica Tech enables customers to achieve measurable outcomes improving efficiency, insight, and innovation.

Through its AI Industry Insights page, Telefónica Tech showcases real-world AI use cases built on Microsoft Azure for each major industry. These include:

• AI in Healthcare: supporting clinical coding, A&E demand forecasting, and diagnostic decision support.
• AI in Government: improving citizen engagement, streamlining contact centre operations, and enhancing social care through automation and predictive analytics.
• AI in Emergency Services: enabling predictive policing, optimising resource allocation, and improving response times through intelligent analysis.
• AI in Financial Services: enhancing fraud detection, compliance monitoring, and risk modelling.
• AI in Manufacturing: enabling predictive maintenance, inventory optimisation, and waste reduction.
• AI in Construction: driving project risk modelling, site safety through image analytics, and quality assurance with custom machine learning models.
• AI in Retail: optimising pricing and promotions, predicting customer propensity, and driving hyper-personalised communications.
• AI in Professional Services: improving document creation, case management, and litigation strategy with intelligent automation.

Each use case demonstrates Telefónica Tech’s commitment to building scalable, secure, and responsible AI solutions that deliver real business value.

This dedication to practical innovation was brought to life recently through Telefónica Tech’s AI Hackathon for Local Government, hosted at its London headquarters as part of the Local Impact Hack Programme.

The two-day event brought together five South East councils, Microsoft experts, and Telefónica Tech data scientists to design and prototype AI solutions for shared public sector challenges from school transport eligibility and pothole management to translation support and context-aware redaction.

Learn more about the outcomes of the Local Impact Hack Programme here.

A Commitment to Excellence and Trust in AI

Renewing the AI on Azure Advanced Specialisation underscores Telefónica Tech’s reputation as a trusted leader in responsible, enterprise-grade AI.

Through its deep partnership with Microsoft, Telefónica Tech continues to combine technical excellence with industry expertise helping organisations innovate confidently, deploy AI responsibly, and achieve lasting value from their data.

As AI adoption accelerates, Telefónica Tech remains committed to empowering every organisation to turn innovation into impact ensuring AI is delivered safely, sustainably, and at scale.