Our Cloud Transition services are tailored to meet modern agile practices as well changing demands in rapidly evolving Cloud technologies. We acknowledge that all customers will have demands, but not necessarily adequate funding for a major programme of work or funding for acquiring full-time FTE and may not even know what kind of project they need to run and what type of services they would need in order to seek help from appropriate resources. Hence we structured our services to help startups, small, medium and large enterprises regardless of what stage they are in their project with certainty around funding and support from the senior leadership team.
We have successfully led cloud transition across several large scale to small scale initiatives from start to end across business, technical, operational, sales and marketing teams.
We don't depend on people calling us as leaders as leadership is not a title, so we also don't send people just as leaders, but everyone delivering on behalf of us will have leadership qualities at the respective levels, which is critical to success of any large scale even medium scale Cloud transition programme.
The leadership qualities enable:
As you won't see people with the title as a leader from us at the same time, we won't charge our customers to provide leadership as a service, that's on us! We make sure our people demonstrate leadership quality, work with them and coach so all our people demonstrate leadership as a softskill no matter what their actual role is.
Best thing in the life comes for free! Yes, we live by that principle for all of our customers and that's where we standout.
Building a Cloud/Data/Business Application Platform from ground up requires extensive knowledge and experience across business, technology, people and process and leadership skills.
It also requires extensive people and soft skills and business value and agile thinking to incrementally build the platform with several milestones and demonstrate business value in each milestones.
We have extensive experience in building platforms for a large utility company, financial institutions and government and each milestone was a project on it's own with clear business outcome delivered including winning new business offshore.
Platform for each customer may have a different meaning and from customer point of view, all capabilities available in an enterprise platform should be designed with end to end service delivery in mind and should be integrated with the overall service management system and processes.
The overall platform architecture involves, but not limited to:
Cloud Landing Zone has become very popular and initial introduction of reference implementation by AWS, which was called AWS Landing Zone solution for sure uplifted the popularity.
The Cloud Landing Zone though looks like an architecture pattern, the implementation in AWS and Azure and going forward from other Cloud providers as well, are quite different on how it's implemented, keeping basic capability of the landing zone quite close across all cloud providers.
Let's ask yourself some questions to clarify why you need such a landing zone in your organisation.
These are some of the questions to be asked before you go into Cloud Landing Zone design phase.
Based on the answers you provide, the Cloud Portfolio starts from really simple to extremely complex, especially if you are going to have 100s of cloud environments, it's almost given that you need a Cloud Landing Zone type solution to consistently manage all of your cloud environments.
We have extensive experience in designing, building and managing Cloud Landing Zone at scale across multiple customers and across different cloud providers.
The entire engineering discipline evolved based on thousands of disasters and cloud engineering is not exemption. If you have chosen to move your IT assets to cloud you are indirectly binding the principle that the weather or not a disaster would strike but it's a matter of when a disaster would strike?
Yes, in cloud we must architect our solutions to anticipate disaster anytime.
When it strikes:
All these must be part of your service management BAU processes.
We have extensive experience in automating the entire DR process in and across Cloud, providing backup services using partner solutions and cloud native services and successfully transitioning the same to the service management.
We architect and design DR and backup strategies that aligns with your organisation's business and compliance requirements that includes but not limited to:
For more details refer disaster-recovery-options-in-the-cloud
Since it's first launch back in 2012, AWS Well-Architected Framework has become the defacto industry framework architecting cloud platforms and cloud workloads.
Acknowledging it's imminent need for any successful cloud adoption, Microsoft launched the same 8 years after it's competitor AWS, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-microsoft-azure-wellarchitected-framework/.
The framework was composed on five pillars and lately AWS introduced sustainability pillar as the sixth pillar, which provides several architecture principles, guidance and standards on what to do and especially what not to do.
The weight of Each of the pillar varies across the type of industry, location, size and maturity, therefore it's important to understand the business, technology and people/process landscape before applying the Well Architected Framework and performing review on the same.
We have extensive experience in adopting, applying and reviewing architecture and designing using Well Architected Framework across several customers and helped improve the security posture, value for money and operational excellence.
We provide services ranging from security risk identification, management and continuous assurance services to govt.nz , NZ Financial Institutions, large enterprises, small and medium businesses as well as startups.
We provide Security Assurance Services to meet
The services provided to government include
Based on our experience, for a successful adoption of cloud in any financial institution, we should get security right from the start and throughout.
There will always be custom frameworks that are required to be designed and developed for most of the financial institutions, but our experience in the following frameworks helps us and the client to accelerate the services on the following frameworks:
It's also critical to service transition the security operations with continuous assurance enabled to the internal or contracted security operations team.
We take them through a journey right from the start so there are no surprises close to go-live. We don't believe in compromising security controls for a short term benefit of project milestones, but we look at business milestone as a whole with the right level of security risk to enable the business by meeting their expectations.
Unlike financial institutions other large enterprises does not have the similar requirements, but part of the security framework applicable for financial institutions can be applicable for other large enterprises as well.
We recognise depends on where you are and the exposure of your business, the security risk posture will be different and the amount of effort on architecting, designing and implementing security controls needed to be customised based on the security risk posture of each entity.
We adopt and embrace the policy of security is everyone's business , so we take our customers on the security journey as they travel with us on the cloud journey in a sustainable manner.
The following the portfolio of security services that we provide, but should be a new need or require customisation, we are happy to discuss and incorporate it.
The security services start with your cloud journey and continue beyond cloud journey so it's wider than cloud adoption itself. In recognition of full security continuous coverage we have been providing the following security services to our customer and take customer through out the cloud journey and beyond.
We follow world's leading threat modelling frameworks, frameworks that are preferred by the customers and frameworks that are relevant for the industry.
We have a network of experienced security architects and consultants in Cloud and across wider large enterprises, who has worked across government, financial and utility domains in significantly large programme of work.
In the current complex and ever evolving technical landscape, managing security risks, threats and events just using manual processes become almost impossible. In otherwords, to have any effective security capability for your organisation, you should have sufficient level of automation across all aspects of security.
We have experience across multiple organisations and cloud providers on the following services:
Assessing your organisation's security posture across your cloud environment is absolutely critical to manage your orgnisations risk and keep your stakeholders and customer happy.
We have experience across multiple customers and multiple tools including cloud native tools to provide automated continous assurance with custom built policies. This includes, but not limited to:
We have experience in build business applications that's mostly done using SaaS applications with no or less coding. We design, work with development and deployment partners, service transition to production and enable business outcomes.
We have extensive experience in designing and delivering CRM solutions using https://www.salesforce.com/au to large enterprises.
We also have partnered with https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-nz/crm/ experts to provide Microsoft CRM solutions in Microsoft Cloud.
The enterprise, integration and platform experience enables us not only provide standalone CRM solutions, but also enable us to integrate the CRM to rest of your enterprise and provide streamlined services.
We have partnered with https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-nz/erp/erp-software/ solution experts to provide our customers with the comprehensive ERP solution.
The combination of our extensive experience across enterprises, business, integration, technology stack and people/processes enable us to not only deliver ERP solutions, but also integrated seamless experience all via one service provider.
Our experience across large organisations and creating new organisations from ground up enables us to work with any HRM solutions providers.
We also have partnered with HRM solution experts to provide you with an accelerate business outcome and with our expertise, also providing streamlined service.
We can provide cloud based on document management solutions that fits for your needs working with expert partners, who has extensive experience in providing the same to many customers.
We also can provide complete lifecycle management solution for documents that can be integrated with rest of your processes and applications.
We provide consultancy, review of operational processes and provide advice on:
We have organised our operational excellence services into following:
It's always a good idea to have another pair of eye on your cloud transition, to make sure:
Continuous independent Cloud Transition Assessment is highly recommended for any small and medium businesses as well as large enterprises. At the same time, at the right level, when startups applies the same, the speed of cloud adoption takes completely a different level.
Feel free to Contact Us to have a free no obligation consultation on this further.
Let be realistic, by moving to public Cloud, you are only moving your physical infrastructure to someone else's data centers, so only the physical infrastructure need not be be managed, but all other aspects remain with you as a customer, that includes:
These are few considerations before you start defining/refining your operating model before moving into cloud. It's most critical step and should be done prior to moving into cloud not after the fact!
Please Contact Us should you like to have a free consultation with no obligations. The operating model is your engine and fuel to have a smooth cloud journey and you must get it right to make it enjoyable!
Your Cloud Journey would be starting, started or in transit, no matter where you at with your Cloud Journey, feel free to Contact Us.