Hello! We’re Shaping Cloud

Leaders in Human-Centred Cloud Transformation

We’ve been designing, implementing, managing, and protecting our clients’ mission-critical digital platforms and services since 2010. Our people are, first and foremost, experienced practitioners and problem-solvers.

Wherever you are on your digital transformation journey, we’ll enable you to unlock the benefits of migrating to the cloud — accelerating your time-to-value, modernising your processes, reducing your operating costs, and optimising your ways of working.

Our Services


Successful organisations are characterised by their ability to transform at pace and scale. An effective strategy, backed by finely tuned recommendations and designs, is the ideal place to start your cloud journey.

Consult

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Our human-centred strategies, designs, and plans are grounded in more than ten years of hands-on delivery experience. Our consultants, many of whom rank among the industry’s most experienced in their respective fields, will collaborate with you at every stage of your cloud and digital transformation journey — unearthing your unique needs before employing tried-and-tested services and solutions that enable you to realise your short-, medium-, and long-term strategic aims.

  • Establishing a clear, evidence-based cloud strategy that reflects your needs, desired outcomes, strategic objectives, budgetary constraints, and regulatory and statutory obligations – laying the foundations for transformation.

  • Bridging the delta between your current and future states through comprehensive infrastructure and workload planning – creating the conditions for lasting change and enabling you to realise the full value of your technology investments.

  • Ensuring that your cloud environments, workloads, and services are configured optimally – unearthing operational efficiency gains and carbon reduction opportunities while exposing and remediating any security threats.

  • Reducing your cloud costs through environment, workload, and service optimisation and the eradication of any accrued manual waste through standardisation and, wherever possible, automation.


Execution is everything. Without the right approach, your cloud strategy, however thorough, won’t succeed. Selecting the right delivery partner will enable you to realise your goals predictably and sustainably.

Deliver

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We’ve been delivering complex cloud transformation programmes in partnership with our clients since 2010. We specialise in bringing our clients’ strategies, designs, and plans to life collaboratively and in accordance with their regulatory, statutory, budgetary, governance, and timeline parameters. Using our proven delivery framework, we’ll also skilfully adapt what we do to meet your needs as they evolve — maximising the value of your strategic technology investments.

  • Accelerating your journey to the cloud through our off-the-shelf Azure landing zone deployments – a firm foundation on which to migrate your workloads to the cloud safely, securely, predictably, and without needing to start from scratch.

  • Safely migrating your infrastructure, workloads, and services to the cloud using our tried-and-tested workload migration methodology and proven accelerators, tools, and templates – accelerating your transformation.

  • Enabling you to exploit the benefits and advantages of hybrid- and multi-cloud service provision across your mission-critical workloads securely, efficiently, cost-effectively, and in a way that ensures scalability.

  • Optimising your software development lifecycle through the implementation of DevOps ways of working – accelerating your time-to-value and reducing your change failure rate through integrated systems, processes, and tools.


Standing still isn’t an option. To succeed, you’ll need an experienced partner in your corner — working with you to tackle your needs and protect your mission-critical assets.

Manage

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In recognising that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work, we tailor our services, which can be consumed on a modular basis, in line with your unique needs. Leaving you to focus on what matters most to you and your business, our experienced engineers will support, optimise, and protect your mission-critical digital platforms and services — resolving issues, remediating problems, and implementing changes.

  • Tackling your short-, medium-, and long-term Azure infrastructure needs reactively and proactively through our ITIL-compliant processes, systems, and tools – iteratively optimising and maintaining your mission-critical digital solutions and services.

  • Provisioning and managing your Microsoft Modern Workplace services in full accordance with our robust service level agreements and value-based key performance indicators – improving the user experience.

  • Maintaining and iteratively enhancing your newly transformed and/or migrated applications in full accordance with our robust service level agreements, value-based key performance indicators, and DevOps engineering principles – providing long-term peace of mind.

  • Protecting your mission-critical information technology assets against increasingly complex cyber risks through reactive and proactive security incident and event management, managed detection and response, and threat modelling services.


The current pace of change means that organisations, large and small, face a growing number of challenges, including the shifting expectations of citizens and consumers.

Innovate

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Innovation succeeds where it balances novel thinking with tried-and-tested solutions. We’ll work with you to establish the conditions whereby you can benefit from the latest advances in technology — including workload modernisation, data and artificial intelligence, machine learning, and federated identity management, among many others — compromise your moral and legal obligations.

  • Taking advantage of cloud-native services to transform your workloads and services – improving their reliability and scalability while reducing your costs and bolstering your security poster and customer experience.

  • Enhancing your decision-making processes by implementing new tools and ways of working that accelerate the capture and analysis of your data. Also, safely exploring the advantages linked to generative artificial intelligence.

  • Integrating your local, national, and international digital services through our federated identity management solution -- enhancing your security posture, improving the user experience, and accelerating your transformation.

  • Designing, implementing, deploying, and iteratively optimising your trusted research environments – platforms for the secure storage, exchange, and processing of confidential patient data.

Our Clients

We’re proud to work for and in partnership with some of the country’s leading innovators — matching their bold visions with human-centred solutions that add lasting value to their organisations and the communities they serve.


Government

With citizen expectations rising and the pressing need to do more with less, outdated systems make it difficult to run services efficiently and cost-effectively. They also inhibit the adoption and exploitation of emerging technologies, such as automation and artificial intelligence. Further, engaging citizens in decision-making processes and service improvement initiatives can be daunting without the right framework. Moreover, set against the backdrop of increasingly complex cyber threats, data protection has become a key risk.

We specialise in translating our clients’ needs into citizen-focused strategies, designs, and plans (all framed in the context of their wider strategic objectives, opportunities, and challenges). We also design, build, manage, and protect their mission-critical digital platforms and services, enabling them to focus on what matters most — meeting the needs of their citizens. Finally, we enable them to experiment with and adopt emerging technologies not only securely, but safely within the parameters of their social, regulatory, and statutory obligations.


Healthcare

For health and social care providers, the need to integrate diverse data sources (and, therefore, improve patient care and turbocharge operational efficiency) is being hampered by outdated infrastructure. Optimising resource allocation amidst growing service demands and balancing access to confidential patient data with stringent privacy and security measures demands a fundamentally different approach. At the same time, equally pressing challenges — including budgetary constraints and novel cyber threats — must also be addressed.

We’re enabling our health and social care clients to tackle these challenges head on, improving patient care through the facilitation of secure and timely access to sensitive records. Through digitisation , we’re also freeing up clinicians to treat more patients more quickly — improving their efficiency and reducing waiting times. In parallel, by migrating their workloads to the cloud, we’re helping our clients to not only reduce their operating costs and carbon emissions, but also to radically simplify their business support models and processes.


Legal & Professional Services

Faced with new market entrants with alternative business structures and the consolidation of many of the industry’s more established players, the legal sector faces a unique set of challenges. To remain competitive in this increasingly digitised landscape, law firms must embrace new technologies and modernise their ways of working — replacing their legacy case and document management systems with more integrated and streamlined cloud alternatives (and in a way that complies fully with their regulatory and statutory obligations!)

We specialise in delivering digital transformation iteratively. By identifying, prioritising, and delivering the highest value, lowest cost activities first, we effect lasting change quickly and cost-effectively. We’ve also designed a series of accelerators with bid law firms in mind, accelerating planned cost reduction and efficiency gain benefits in a way that reflects not only their unique regulatory and statutory obligations (concerning information security, for example), but also their challenges in terms of cyber vulnerabilities.


Financial Services

In a truly global race, financials services providers must innovate further and faster to remain competitive — replacing their legacy systems with a view to streamlining their processes, reducing their costs, better supporting their clients, and creating the conditions to safely experiment with new and emerging technologies. Additionally, set against the backdrop of increasingly complex cyber threats, including from hostile state actors and organised criminal groups, companies must do even more to protect their vital assets.

We offer the right expertise to set our clients on the right course — robust strategies, designs, and plans backed by client-centred platforms and services that enable them to realise their strategic goals. Furthermore, through automation and digitisation, we free up our clients to focus on what matters most — delivering world-class banking experiences. Finally, through our leading leading edge security offerings and credentials, we provide peace of mind — reactively and proactively protecting their most sensitive assets.


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The Insolvency Service

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Bradford and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group​

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Oxfordshire County Council

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Bury Metropolitan Borough Council​

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London Borough of Newham​

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Wokingham Borough Council​

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Durham County Council​

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Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council ​

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Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council​

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Staffordshire County Council​

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Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council​

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Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council​

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London Borough of Havering​

The Department for Work and Pensions / The Insolvency Service / Bradford and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group​ / Oxfordshire County Council / Bury Metropolitan Borough Council​ / London Borough of Newham​ / Wokingham Borough Council​ / Durham County Council​ / Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council ​ / Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council​ / Staffordshire County Council​ / Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council​ / Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council​ / London Borough of Havering​

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Leading Microsoft Partner

We’ve been working with Microsoft since 2010. Over and above our consultants’ 50+ accreditations, we’re proud to have secured five Solution Partner and two Solution Specialist designations, a testament to our technological expertise.

Through our partnership, we can help you to unlock exclusive funding opportunities — accelerating your journey to the cloud. We can also offer your comprehensive training and unique insight into Microsoft’s technology roadmap.

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