Approach
A migration method built for zero drama.
Assess, design, migrate, optimise — the same four-phase discipline for infrastructure estates and productivity suites, with validation gates and rollback paths at every step. Here's exactly how it runs.
Assess
Everything starts with evidence. Before anyone talks platforms, we build a complete picture of what you run, what it touches and what it costs.
What happens
- Discovery workshops with IT, security, finance and business owners
- Automated estate scanning plus structured interviews
- Application dependency mapping — what breaks if this moves?
- Identity and access review (AD / Entra ID / Google Identity)
- Data gravity, residency and compliance-constraint analysis
- Licensing position audit — what you own vs what you'd need
What you receive
- Scored cloud-readiness report per workload
- Three-year TCO model (current vs target state)
- Risk register with mitigation owners
- Recommendation with the scoring shown
Design
Architecture is decided on paper, where changes cost nothing. We align executives, IT and change managers before a single mailbox or VM moves.
What happens
- Target architecture and landing-zone design (as code)
- Security baseline: identity, network segmentation, encryption, logging
- Wave plan — which workloads move together, in what order, and why
- Rollback criteria and restore-point strategy per wave
- Coexistence design for productivity migrations (mail routing, free/busy)
- Communication plan and user-impact mapping
What you receive
- Approved target architecture & security baseline
- Wave calendar with named owners and go/no-go gates
- Documented rollback plan per wave
- User communications pack, branded for your organisation
Migrate
Pilot first, always. A representative cohort proves the runbook end-to-end — tooling, timings, validation and rollback — before production waves begin.
What happens
- Pilot migration with a representative workload or user cohort
- Continuous replication / delta sync — source stays live throughout
- Scripted validation: item counts, data integrity, service health
- Out-of-hours cutover on a staffed bridge with go/no-go checkpoints
- Immediate post-cutover verification before users arrive
- Day-one floor support (remote or on-site) for user-facing waves
What you receive
- Signed validation report per wave — before every cutover
- Runbook updated with real timings after each wave
- Cutover bridge log and issue register
- Wave retrospective feeding the next wave's plan
Optimise
The migration isn't done when the data lands. Hypercare, cost tuning and knowledge transfer turn a migrated estate into an operated one.
What happens
- 30-day hypercare with the same engineers who ran the migration
- Performance tuning against real production load
- FinOps pass: right-sizing, scheduling, commitment strategy
- Security posture review against the design baseline
- AI-enablement checkpoints — Copilot, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock or Vertex readiness
- Handover workshops and documentation for your team
What you receive
- Monthly cost & service report (CFO-readable)
- Operations runbooks your team can run without us
- Decommissioning sign-off for source systems
- Optional transition into managed operations
The rules we don't break — on any project.
No cutover without validation
Scripted data-integrity and service-health checks must pass before any DNS flip or connection-string change. A failed check means we stop — not hope.
Rollback is a plan, not a panic
Every wave has documented rollback criteria and tested restore points agreed before the window opens. Source systems stay untouched until sign-off.
The business calendar wins
Cutover windows are scheduled around your trading peaks, month-end closes and exam seasons — not our convenience. Out-of-hours is the default, not a premium.
Knowledge transfer is deliverable zero
Runbooks, architecture docs and handover workshops are in every statement of work. We build for your independence, and clients keep choosing to stay anyway.
Built from migrations that had no room for failure.
Fixed-scope assessments
Every engagement starts with a scored readiness report and TCO model you can take to the board — priced and scoped before any migration work begins.
Named engineers, not ticket queues
You get a dedicated migration lead and named engineers who stay with the project from discovery to hypercare. The people who plan your migration are the people who run it.
Rollback paths on everything
Every wave has a documented rollback plan and tested restore points. We have never needed to say 'there's no way back' — and never will.
Security & compliance first
GDPR-aware data handling, least-privilege access, encrypted transfer and audit-ready documentation on every project. Compliance constraints shape the plan, not the other way round.