Eight weeks

To deploy specialist Azure capability

GO status achieved

For RISI-DEV migration, establishing the template for all remaining subscriptions

Full Azure estate assessed

Across demand pipeline, technical analysis and migration planning 

Define

Following a significant demerger, a leading financial data provider needed to undertake a rapid Azure subscription migration and technology systems discovery, specifically focused on its Microsoft Azure estate. The business had four clear outputs in mind:

1. Demand pipeline management and dashboard
2. Technical analysis and documentation
3. A defined target end-state for technology migration and rebuild, to inform procurement, migration planning, prioritisation and assurance
4. Support for technology migration planning

The pace and complexity of the demerger meant there was no room for a slow start. Specialist Azure capability needed to be deployed quickly and hit the ground running.

Design

Definia responded quickly, deploying a team of Azure specialists for eight weeks. The team’s remit covered five key areas:

  • Running stakeholder workshops to determine the current state of the subscription migrations
  • Conducting a gap analysis of the current state versus industry best practice, highlighting quick wins and remediations
  • Bringing recommendations into practice by targeting the RISI-DEV application migration through a cross-functional team across site reliability engineering (SRE), application owners, testers and infrastructure stakeholders
  • Building an implementation plan and completing implementation testing — validating activities and enabling a ‘GO/NO GO’ meeting to confirm readiness for the migration
  • Delivering change management alignment, communicating outcomes and planning with all broader stakeholders

Financial data provider

CTO

“Good job to the Definia team on this assignment. We were impressed by your understanding of the ask — the team’s technical skills aside, their judgement in terms of knowing what and when to escalate issues helped the project progress.”

Deliver

At the close of the programme, Definia delivered:

  • A fully defined pipeline including a process flow, outlined owners, defined tooling and adoption across subscription migration activities
  • Subscription technical analysis and documentation, including an asset register detailing a full resource breakdown
  • A validated plan for the subscription migration approach and sequencing, defining all key tasks and milestones and incorporating into the overall programme plan for all remaining subscriptions
  • Successful acceleration of the RISI-DEV migration to the client’s tenant — completed and established as the template for all remaining migrations

The engagement also left the client with something less tangible but equally valuable: confidence.

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