When organisations start thinking about cloud migration, the conversation often begins with infrastructure. But the truth is, the cloud isn’t just a new place to park your servers. Done properly, it’s a chance to reimagine how your organisation operates — with flexibility, scalability, resilience, and cost transparency at the core.

At INTEGY, we approach Azure migration with strategic consolidation in mind. This isn’t about lifting and shifting everything as-is. It’s about asking the right questions early. What do you have today? What do you really need tomorrow? How are services consumed, and what makes sense to modernise, consolidate, or even retire?

This discovery-first approach ensures that migration isn’t just a technical task — it becomes a transformational project.

Discover, Assess, and Rationalise

Our engagements begin with a deep dive into your current environment. Using Azure Migrate and a combination of qualitative assessments and tooling, we gain visibility into workloads, dependencies, performance patterns, and utilisation levels. But more importantly, we look at the role those systems play in your organisation — not just whether they can move to Azure, but whether they should.

Some workloads are ready for direct modernisation — ideal candidates for SaaS platforms like Microsoft 365, or line-of-business systems that can be transitioned to purpose-built cloud applications. Others may benefit from platform services such as Azure SQL, App Services, Logic Apps, or containerisation. For systems that need to remain as virtual machines, we plan out efficient, right-sized IaaS deployments with cost optimisation in mind.

In many cases, this process uncovers unused services, duplicated systems, or legacy dependencies that can be decommissioned. This is where real value begins to emerge — not from simply moving systems, but from reshaping your digital estate to better serve the business.

Beyond Workloads: A Modern End-User Experience

Migration isn’t just about servers and systems. Your users — and how they access data and services — are central to cloud success. That’s why we treat end-user computing as a core part of the transition, not an afterthought.

We help you get the most from the Microsoft 365 platform. Whether it’s managing devices with Intune, enabling secure collaboration through SharePoint and OneDrive, enhancing communication with Teams, or migrating mail services to Exchange Online, we ensure users benefit from a modern, connected experience. Everything is done with governance, compliance, and usability in mind.

Security is non-negotiable. That’s why we implement and tune the Microsoft Defender suite across identity, endpoints, messaging, and cloud apps. You gain visibility, control, and peace of mind — all from a single integrated stack.

Foundation Matters: Designing the Azure Landing Zone

Once the target state is agreed, we turn our focus to building the right foundation — and that means deploying a best-practice Azure Landing Zone. We follow Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework to structure and govern your Azure environment from the start. This includes clear guidance around identity, access management, security, networking, cost controls, policy, and logging.

We design environments that scale.

Whether you need a single subscription or a multi-subscription model aligned to organisational units, we configure controls for delegated access, compliance boundaries, and budget accountability. Hybrid connectivity is addressed too — with secure tunnels via VPN or ExpressRoute to on-premises infrastructure where needed.

Critical services like backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring are built in — not bolted on later.

We help you take advantage of Azure-native tools such as Backup Vaults, Site Recovery, Log Analytics, and Monitor, so you’re not just protected, but fully informed.

Cloud as an Operational Model, Not Just a Destination

Cloud success doesn’t end at migration — it depends on how well the platform is adopted, used, and governed day to day. That’s why we embed skills development and process alignment throughout the journey. Our team works closely with yours to transfer knowledge, upskill staff, and support new operational practices.

We offer detailed cost modelling and FinOps-aligned reviews to ensure your cloud usage stays transparent, efficient, and sustainable. From reserved instances and scaling policies to lifecycle automation, we keep your Azure environment working for your business — not the other way around.

And when things aren’t quite right, we help you put them back on track. Policy remediation, design reviews, security baselining, automation tuning — we’ve got you covered.

The INTEGY Difference

We’ve delivered successful Azure migrations and transformations across local government, healthcare, education, and commercial sectors. What sets us apart is our approach: grounded in real-world experience, aligned with best practice, and always focused on making the cloud work for you.

Whether you're at the planning stage or already underway and need help course-correcting, we’re ready to support your journey — from assessment through to delivery, and long after you go live.

Let’s build your Azure future together — securely, strategically, and with confidence.