A Cloud Strategy Built Around Your Business
From cloud readiness to migration planning — get a clear, practical cloud roadmap aligned to your goals.
How this service helps
Moving to the cloud shouldn't mean moving everything at once without a plan. We help organisations develop a structured cloud strategy — assessing readiness, evaluating options, and building a phased roadmap that minimises risk and maximises value.
What's Included
- Cloud readiness assessment
- Azure and Microsoft 365 planning
- Hybrid vs. full-cloud evaluation
- Migration planning and phased approach
- Licensing optimisation
- Ongoing cloud governance
How It Works
We assess your current infrastructure and workloads, identify what's cloud-ready and what needs work, and produce a phased cloud strategy document. You get clear options, risk assessments, and cost projections — not a one-size-fits-all recommendation.
- 01
Understand
Review your environment, constraints and business priorities.
- 02
Agree the scope
Define responsibilities, deliverables and the change window.
- 03
Implement
Make controlled changes with testing and a rollback plan.
- 04
Hand over
Validate the result and document ongoing ownership.
Plan the right scope
Start with workloads, identities and dependencies, rather than choosing a platform first. A migration plan should cover permissions, licensing, data protection, testing and what happens if a cutover needs to be reversed.
Useful information for our first conversation
- A list of applications, integrations and identity providers.
- Data volumes, retention needs and current licensing or cloud bills.
- Acceptable maintenance windows, recovery objectives and owners for user testing.
Questions before you decide
Do all systems need to move to the cloud?
No. A hybrid approach may suit applications with local dependencies, specialist hardware or specific operating requirements. Assess each workload against cost, resilience and manageability.
How do you plan migration disruption?
Document dependencies, test a representative group and agree a cutover window. Confirm rollback arrangements and user communications before moving production workloads; timings depend on the environment.
What affects cloud service costs?
Licences, compute size, storage, data transfer, backup and management all contribute. Compare the ongoing operating cost as well as the migration cost, and review usage after deployment.
What affects the quote?
The number of users, devices and sites, the condition of existing systems, required coverage and project complexity all affect scope. Licensing, hardware, third-party costs and ongoing management should be identified separately. Request a quote against a written service schedule so you can compare like for like.
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