CLOUD STRATEGY AND MIGRATION
Cloud strategy and application migration
We develop your cloud strategy and migration plan around application value, technical fit and risk, then deliver in validated waves.
- A disposition per application, decided on value, technical fit, and risk
- A phased, wave-based plan that proves the pattern before anything critical moves
- A funded business case with cost, risk, and value per application
A cloud strategy is not one big move. It is the right decision, made across the whole estate.
Some applications should move as-is, some should be re-platformed, a few earn a full refactor, and others should simply be switched off.
The strategy is the pattern across the estate, not any single move. Deciding which applications are even worth migrating is where Application Portfolio Rationalization comes in first, so you migrate what matters and retire what does not. This service rolls up to Cloud and Platform Engineering.
Every application gets a decision, not a default.
Every application assessed against business value, technical fit, and risk.
Six dispositions, one per application. The mix across the estate is the strategy.
Blanket rehosting carries your inefficiencies into the cloud and pays cloud rates for them. We rehost where it fits and choose differently where it does not. Refactor-track applications flow into Application Modernisation.
Cloud strategy and migration in validated waves.
Assess
Discovery, dependency mapping, 6 Rs disposition, and business case, producing a prioritised migration plan and funding rationale.
Foundation
Landing zone, security baseline, networking and guardrails, aligned to the relevant provider architecture principles.
Migrate in waves
Low-risk workloads first, then complex ones, so the pattern is validated and confidence grows under controlled risk.
Optimise
Rightsizing, cost, and reliability tuning through Cloud Optimization, so cloud value is realized, not just cloud residence.
The first wave is deliberately low-stakes. It proves the pattern and the team before anything business-critical moves. Workloads land on solid Cloud Infrastructure.
Assessment, landing zones, and migration factories on the platform you choose.
A representative stack by layer. We use your existing tooling where it is sound rather than replacing it.
The business case connects to FinOps, so the investment decision stays defensible after go-live.
From a stalled all-or-nothing attempt to a repeatable pattern the team owns.
Challenge: Legacy infrastructure was buckling under rising online traffic, manual cataloguing slowed auction preparation, and reporting hid the bidding trends the business needed.
Result: A scalable cloud core with automated auction workflows, Oracle ESB migrated to Dell Boomi, and a Kafka and Elasticsearch backbone: 300% more conversions, 30% higher operational efficiency, and zero downtime at peak. Read the story.
The rest of the IT strategy and enterprise architecture practice.
Application Portfolio Rationalization
The TIME assessment that decides what should exist before this service decides where it runs.
Strategic Portfolio and Program Management
The governance and delivery cadence to execute the roadmap at scale.
IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
Guardrails so the migrated estate stays rationalized rather than re-bloating.
Application Modernisation
Where the refactor-disposition applications go to be rebuilt cloud-native.
Cloud Infrastructure
The governed cloud foundation that migrated workloads land on.
IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
The parent practice this service belongs to.
What leaders ask us first.
Sometimes, for the right applications. But blanket rehosting carries your inefficiencies into the cloud and pays cloud rates for them. We rehost where it fits and choose differently where it does not.
We migrate in waves, starting with low-risk workloads to prove the pattern before anything business-critical moves.
Yes. The assessment produces a funded business case with cost, risk, and value per application, so the investment decision is defensible.
Let us assess your estate, decide each application's fate, and sequence a migration that holds up.
A 6 Rs disposition per application, an architecture-aligned landing zone and a wave-based plan with a business case behind it.