iLink Digital earns Microsoft Frontier Partner badge for enterprise AI transformation

NEW DELHI: iLink Digital, a global AI-led digital transformation and technology consulting company, has earned the Microsoft Frontier Partner badge, a recognition for organisations leading enterprise AI transformation through an AI-first, human-led approach.

The Bellevue, Washington-headquartered company announced the recognition on August 13, saying the badge reflects its breadth across Microsoft’s AI, cloud, data, security and business-application ecosystems.

Microsoft introduced the Frontier Partner badge for organisations holding at least three Solutions Partner designations and three specialisations. iLink Digital exceeds these requirements, having attained all six Solutions Partner designation pathways.

These span Solutions Partner for Cloud & AI Platforms, Solutions Partner for AI Business Solutions and Solutions Partner for Security, covering Microsoft’s current customer-facing partner badges. iLink also holds more than 10 Microsoft specialisations, Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status and Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner recognition.

The recognition builds on more than two decades of iLink Digital’s collaboration with Microsoft. The company has supported more than 125 Azure customers worldwide and has a global team of more than 2,000 Microsoft-certified consultants.

Sree Balaji, Co-Founder and Group CEO, iLink Digital, said the recognition reflected the depth and breadth of the company’s capabilities across the Microsoft ecosystem.

He said enterprise AI leadership was increasingly about converting AI into secure, governed and measurable business outcomes at scale rather than simply launching pilots.

The company is positioning its enterprise AI practice around helping organisations move from proof-of-concept deployments to production environments. It identifies trusted data, secure identity, responsible governance and integration with core business processes as key requirements for enterprise AI adoption.

Its approach includes identifying high-value AI opportunities, building AI-ready data foundations using Microsoft Fabric and Azure, and deploying Microsoft Copilot and AI agents across employee, customer and operational workflows.

The company also integrates Zero Trust security, responsible AI, compliance and observability into AI deployments while modernising applications, cloud platforms and business processes for AI-enabled transformation.

iLink Digital is using proprietary platforms including iGentic for enterprise multi-agent orchestration and BEAK for AI-powered IT, cloud and security operations. The company also offers repeatable industry solutions and modernisation accelerators to support enterprise deployments.

Sakthi Kanan, CEO & GM – Data and AI, iLink Digital, said enterprises were increasingly looking for measurable and governable outcomes rather than additional AI experiments. He said the Frontier Partner badge reflects the maturity of the company’s end-to-end enterprise transformation practice.

Microsoft has indicated that the badge will evolve into the Frontier Partner specialisation, providing customers and Microsoft field teams with a clearer way to identify partners with validated capabilities to build and deliver agents across Microsoft’s Frontier product stack.

As the programme evolves, iLink said it will deepen its investments in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, with security and governance embedded across the platforms.

The company said its focus will be on helping enterprises move AI agents from prototype to production, an area where issues such as trusted data, identity, governance, integration and observability become critical alongside the underlying AI technology.

iLink Digital has more than two decades of experience in technology modernisation and AI adoption. The company says it has more than 3,000 professionals worldwide, with capabilities spanning AI, data, cloud, digital engineering, business applications, infrastructure, security and managed services.