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Cloud > Plan & Prove_HERO
Plan & Prove.
Transform the performance, cost and scale of your platforms and architectures.
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How we help.
We help you make applications and data products more performant, scalable and easier to support in the cloud. Here’s some of the typical customer challenges we see.
M&M - Element - Roadmap
We’re on our cloud journey but we’re struggling to put together a clear roadmap & business case for investment.
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Azure Optimisation - Element - Outages
We’ve moved to the cloud but are having lots of outages due to unexpected spikes.
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Azure Optimisation - Element - Cost
We need to improve the value profile of our cloud spend – costs are spiralling.
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M&M - Element - Protect
We’re worried about protecting our data assets, access control and security.
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M&M - Element - Acquisitions
We are going through a number of acquisitions which have created complexity.
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Azure Optimisation - Element - Validate
We need some external expertise to validate our architecture decisions.
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Azure Optimisation - Element - Model
Moving to the cloud means we have to change our operating model – but we’re not sure how.
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M&M - Element - Gap
We have a capability gap internally – and we’re not sure what the right balance of in-house vs external skills should be.
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Our resources and capability.
The scale and skills of our talented teams (and where to find them).
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Plan & Prove - Strategy & Readiness
Plan & Prove - Strategy & Readiness
Cloud strategy & skills readiness.
Build stakeholder support, develop internal capability and demonstrate rapid ROI.
We apply our experience to help you develop a context and maturity-appropriate approach to cloud adoption, understanding your strategic options and likely investment.
We review your internal capability and work with you to define the next steps in your cloud journey, identifying meaningful KPIs that drive rapid ROI.
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Plan & Prove - TCO & Business Case
TCO & Business Case
TCO & business case.
Assess potential cloud-hosted application and data workloads. Determine their estimated cost to run in the cloud.
Our certified Azure engineers and architects work with your key stakeholders to assess your business application landscape.
We then create detailed time and cost estimates for different scenarios and a view of overall TCO/ cost:benefit comparison for different migration options.
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Plan & Prove - Architecture & Service Design
Plan & Prove - Architecture & Service Design
Architecture & service design.
The patterns and framework for your base cloud deployment, with defined architectural, management and security principles.
We design scalable, modular cloud-native architectures that are optimised for performance.
Our templated and standardised approach to build delivers repeatability, maintainability and decreased risk of human error. This approach frees our experienced teams to focus on the high value, low volume customisations that deliver more value to your business.
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Plan & Prove - Pilot
Pilot
Pilot.
Establish a solid foundation for cloud adoption at scale.
We help you demonstrate certainty in advance of migration activity by deploying and testing a pilot application in your new landing zone.
This enables you to verify functionality and performance early, avoiding downstream delays to migration and benefits realisation.
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What it means to you table - Azure Optimisation
How we work and what it means to you.
How it work & what it means to you.
| How we work. | What it means to you. |
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| Comprehensive overview of spend correlated with usage and performance. | Create clear, actionable improvement strategies that align business priorities with workload criticality. |
| Detailed, expert architectural review. | Benchmark your environments with a meaningful, consistent, independent approach to architecture review. Understand architectural trade-offs based on your business context. |
| Focus on risks and issues. | Identify risks and thematic issues across your environments: gaps, anti-patterns and suitability for growth. Prioritise stability and efficiency. |
| Automation-first. | Automation and orchestration of resource provisioning for predictable workloads avoids unnecessary cost when not in use. |
| Serverless & containerisation technology specialism. | Configure seamless automated application scaling on demand. |
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IN ACTION
CLOUD - Azure-Optimisation - CaseStudy
Carlsberg Group
Moving intelligence to the cloud.
Heritage beer brand Carlsberg’s progressive approach to business and brewing has made them a world leader in the sector. Founded in 1874, Carlsberg now has more than 140 brands in its portfolio, which spans core, craft & speciality and alcohol-free brews.
Ascent’s Lisbon-based data engineering team were engaged to help Carlsberg undertake a critical migration from on-premise BI systems to the Azure Cloud, implementing batch and streaming data processes and replacing old SSIS packages with PySpark notebooks. The team also used Databricks to build machine learning models to predict churn and profitability.
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Our customers.
Ascent works with over 170 businesses in the UK, Europe and North America. From global insurance, healthcare and retail to smart home devices, space exploration and cricket - we get to work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses.
Taking CX to the next level with AI for 200,000 members.
INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
Empowering the evolution of online learning for a leading global platform.
LINKEDIN LEARNING
Improving health and well-being through data transformation.
GSK
Reducing time-to-market for automotive innovation.
BOSCH
Creating compelling omnichannel experiences from bar to browser.
BREWDOG
Empowering the actuarial community to solve problems with R.
SWISS RE
Rebuilding a complex online image editing application for scale.
PICMONKEY
Enabling data science teams to drive class-leading consumer engagement.
HARRODS
Sparking financial literacy and empowering young investors.
RAIFFEISEN STEIERMARK
Introducing formal QA processes, optimising delivery and improving software quality.
RHI MAGNESITA
Democratising data to engage new communities & protect the UK seabed.
THE CROWN ESTATE
Evolving a global infrastructure team into a proven Centre of Excellence for cloud.
BDO
Optimising performance & support with 360° insight into the elite Women’s game.
ENGLAND & WALES CRICKET BOARD
Digitalising orders, boosting efficiency and simplifying communication.
STRABAG
Promoting collaborative experimentation in sustainable food production.
SYNGENTA
Enhancing customer service with an intuitive online portal for managing insurance policies and claim processing.
GRAWE
Creating a seamless UX to simplify skin cancer risk assessments and build user trust.
SKINSCREENER
Improving experience and making life simpler for home automation customers.
HIVE
Developing an intuitive online tool for exterior landscaping design.
MEYER
Bringing on-demand to the UK’s favourite TV listing and review platform.
RADIO TIMES
Reducing cost, accelerating innovation and attracting new talent in healthcare.
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Let's get started.
We help customers build new business capabilities and deliver pivotal data and software projects on the Azure cloud. Got a challenge in mind?
We’re ready when you are.
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