Business outcomes first
We start with what the organisation is trying to achieve, then derive the technology decisions - not the other way around.
Cloud Advisory & Strategy
A cloud strategy your board can actually approve
Technology roadmaps fail when they read like shopping lists. We build a plan that starts from what the business is trying to do over the next three years, then works backwards to the platform decisions that support it.
3 years
Typical roadmap horizon, reviewed and re-cut every six months as reality changes.
Board-ready
Written for the people approving the budget, not just for the IT team.
Vendor-honest
Where Microsoft is not the right answer for something, we say so.
What it covers
A cloud plan is more than picking a platform
A useful cloud strategy answers more than "which platform". It sets out how environments are structured and governed, who can do what, how spend is controlled and attributed, how security is enforced, how you will operate the estate day to day, and what capability your own team needs to build. We cover all of it, in a document your leadership can act on.
What you get
Included with Cloud Advisory & Strategy
Target architecture
A reference architecture for your estate: landing zones, network topology, identity model and workload placement.
Governance and guardrails
Naming, tagging, policy, role-based access and budget controls defined before sprawl gets a chance to start.
A funding model
Capital-to-operating shift explained, spend attributed to business units, and a cost model finance can plan against.
Operating model and skills
Who runs what, what you keep in-house, what you outsource, and the capability gaps worth closing.
A sequenced roadmap
Phased initiatives with dependencies, effort and expected benefit, so the plan survives contact with a budget cycle.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Alongside them, not instead of them. Internal teams usually know the business far better than we ever will, but rarely get uninterrupted time to think three years ahead. We bring pattern recognition from many estates and the space to do the strategic work properly.
No. We are a Microsoft Partner and Microsoft is what we know deepest, which is exactly why we can tell you where it does not fit. If a specialist SaaS product beats building something on Azure, that goes in the report.
Formally every six months, and immediately after anything material - an acquisition, a regulatory change, or a significant Microsoft licensing shift. A strategy document nobody has opened in two years is decoration.
Next step
Talk to us about Cloud Advisory & Strategy
Tell us what you are running today and what is prompting the change. We will come back within one business day with a straight answer about whether this is the right move for you.
- A 30-minute call with an engineer who works on this daily
- An honest view, including when the answer is “you do not need this”
- Fixed-scope pricing if you decide to go ahead
Enquire about Cloud Advisory & Strategy
One business day response, from someone who can actually answer the question.
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