For most of the past two decades, enterprise IT in India has been defined by infrastructure thinking. IT teams India-wide built their skills, processes, and organisational structures around managing servers, storage, and networks. Cloud adoption changed the conversation, but for many teams the underlying mental model did not change with it. Lift-and-shift migrations moved the same infrastructure concerns to a different location, the servers became virtual machines, but the thinking stayed the same. A more fundamental shift is now underway. Organisations that are genuinely extracting value from cloud are moving toward platform thinking, and in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem that means engaging seriously with platform as a service capability rather than treating Azure as a more convenient place to run virtual machines. At Embee Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner and SAP partner in India, we work with IT leaders across the country who are navigating this transition.…