Cloud Advisory Service
Cloud is revolutionising the way every business uses technology to deliver value. Successfully adopting cloud technology and implementing an achievable strategy to harness the power of cloud can be a challenging prospect. So, let us help kick-start your cloud journey and leverage our first-class expertise.
Overview
The route for adopting cloud is typically complex and requires careful planning to ensure the optimal pathway for your organisation. From workload migration, re-architecting complex applications to be truly 'cloud native' or managing hyperscale cloud environments - every business has their own unique needs.
Since establishing our Cloud Advisory Service, we have successfully navigated the cloud adoption journey over and over again. We have become well-versed in overcoming the common obstacles most organisations face every day. By drawing on this expertise, our specialists will guide your organisation through the process of leveraging and operating the latest cloud technology solutions.
The primary goal of our advisory service is to enable our clients to make effective decisions to develop a cloud strategy that successfully delivers value and achieves results.
Find the right track for cloud success.
Our advisory team can provide the necessary expertise to ensure your cloud-related projects are successful from start to finish. We can assist with change across people, process and technology with the objective of implementing a strategy that encourages business agility, increases performance and reduces risk.
Our expertise spans many areas and technical domains, including:
- Cloud Strategy and Architecture
- Enterprise DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Modern Application Architecture (Serverless and Containers)
- Automation and Orchestration
- Information Security and Data Protection
- Data Intelligence and Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Cognitive Technologies
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
We work with all major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in the market today and offer unrivalled insight into their service portfolios and variety of capabilities.
Advisory Framework
From cost reduction to infrastructure modernisation, our specialists always work in partnership with your teams to develop a practical strategy and long-term roadmap that fulfils your specific business objectives. We do this through a combination of extensive analysis and proven advisory practices that draw on our own experience. We are able to assist across a wide range of cloud platforms, technologies and services.
Covering all stages of the cloud lifecycle, we usually explore four critical areas:
- Organisational Readiness
- Strategy and Design
- Enablement and Adoption
- Operational Management
We have developed an approach that aligns these key areas of the cloud journey seamlessly through a proactive and innovative engagement model.
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Stage 1: Readiness Assessment
Our team will assess, analyse and document the business drivers and technical objectives for adopting cloud in your organisation while determining readiness and feasibility of your existing architecture, identifying risks and security considerations as well as defining the steps required to become a ‘cloud enabled’ business (depending on the maturity of your organisation's existing IT operation).
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Stage 2: Strategy and Roadmap
The first step in putting cloud into action, we develop a cloud strategy and transformation roadmap that is specific to your organisation. A clear vision and target model is an invaluable tool in planning your desired end-state before migrating any applications or services to the cloud.
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Stage 3: Architecture and Design
From design best practices to complex application architecture, our seasoned Cloud Architects can provide extensive technical knowledge and expert guidance in successfully designing cloud-enabled solutions. Using proven design patterns and architecture principles, our specialists understand how to achieve scalability, performance and agility to deliver innovative services to your users.
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Stage 4: Enablement and Migration
Once your organisation has defined a cloud strategy, executing it can be a challenging prospect and migrating applications can prove difficult and costly. To address this, we have created a tried and tested Cloud Enablement framework that streamlines the migration process by providing the right tools and resources to plan and execute successful migrations.
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Stage 5: Service Management and Operations
Streamlining service management processes and activities when using cloud is often overlooked. With all cloud services, the way in which services are managed is different from the traditional service management models. Therefore, it is necessary to define a service management strategy that reduces complex and repetitive tasks, integrates with existing processes and provides visibility in the health and performance of cloud services. Our team has experience in implementing service management tools to optimise service management processes for cloud services.