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Unified Support wasn’t built for that

It was built for volume, entitlements, and routing logic. IT teams don’t need the mythical “unlimited support.” When a system buckles, immediate engineering engagement becomes the need of the hour. Infrastructure, operations, and cloud teams feel the friction first:

Critical issues get held up in front-line triage before reaching the right engineer.

Microsoft support escalation depends on region, intake volume, and severity evaluations.

Azure and hybrid issues bounce between teams with no clear owner.

Insufficient root-cause analysis leads to the same issue recurring.

It was built for volume, entitlements, and routing logic. IT teams don’t need the mythical “unlimited support.” When a system buckles, immediate engineering engagement becomes the need of the hour. Infrastructure, operations, and cloud teams feel the friction first:

Submit Your Most Outstanding Ticket

Have a ticket that took too long, moved across multiple support stages, or never got a satisfying root cause under Microsoft Unified Support?

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and we’ll show you:

  • How we’d intake and assess it 
  • Who would own it 
  • What severity would apply 
  • Commit to root-cause analysis 

Service Model Comparison:
DCG vs Unified vs 3rd-Party Providers

See how the three most common Microsoft enterprise support models differ in SLA reliability, engineering access, pricing predictability, continuity, and overall service quality.

Direct-to-Senior
Engineer Support

No more “let me transfer this case.

You start with the engineer who understands your workload and architecture.

<15 min

Critical Response

<1 hr.

Standard Response

Verified

Measured, Reported

92% tickets

Solved Inhouse

<10%

Microsoft Escalation

24/7

Global Support

70m USD

in Client Savings

1M

Users Supported

43%

Average Customer

ROI

Post Go-Live

Severity Level

Severity A (SEV/A) - Tier 1

Severity B (SEV/B) - Tier 2

Severity C (SEV/C) - Tier 3

Business Impact

Critical

Moderate

Minimal

Response SLA Detailed

< 15 Minutes

< 4 Minutes

< 8 Minutes

Azure Escalation Without Delays or Triage Bottlenecks

Azure incidents are different: identity, network, compute, storage, PaaS, and monitoring all interact with each other. Intake delays slow everything down.

Under Unified, Azure support escalation often means:

  • Generic intake stages 
  • Multiple reassignments before platform specialists 
  • Limited visibility into who owns the incident 

With DCG Advanced Support:

  • Azure-certified engineers engage from the first 
  • Telemetry, logs, and dependency maps are reviewed by people who understand your architecture 
  • Escalations into Microsoft are used strategically
  • RCAs include concrete Azure configuration and governance hardening steps

DCG is precisely what our company needs for IT support. Having one POC has been extremely helpful, so we don’t have to explain issues to someone else hopping on being added to the team to solve a problem. [Our DCG support team member] has been vital to this process and works well with our staff. [They] are available and do a wonderful job explaining issues to me and finding resolutions. Cornerstone is very pleased with DCG and how it has gone so far.

David Cravens
Operational Specialist, Cornerstone Commissioning Inc.

If your support slows when incidents speed up,
it’s worth examining a faster alternative.

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