Azure DevOps
We help you leverage the power of cloud-based development by supporting you with the implementation and operation of Azure DevOps to accelerate your software development and delivery.
Assess and enhance your DevOps strategy in the cloud
Whether you’re new to Azure DevOps, or want to build on your existing experience, we can help you enhance your current software release lifecycle and identify opportunities for improvements through our assessment services.
Our team can help you make lasting progress by
Analysing your current release lifecycle
Our experts will review existing DevOps practices and tools for untapped opportunities
Identifying your target state
Leverage our experience to uncover extra value, efficiencies, and optimisations
Aligning to best practice
Our recommendations will align you to best practices, and accelerate your transformation towards your specific target state
Drive competitiveness through cloud-based development
Leverage the comprehensive suite of Azure DevOps tools and services to:
Enhance collaboration
Break down silos and enable real-time communication with built in integrations and a unified dashboard for increased transparency and productivity
Deliver continuously with agility
Enable teams to plan, track, and deliver software iterations effectively, and automate build, test, and release processes for accelerated time to market
Scale & flex effectively
Grow and flex your DevOps platform in line with business needs, and take advantage of the wide range of services to match your specific requirements
Focus on Development
Nobody knows your application better than you do. Our cloud and security experts will manage your pre and production environments and pipelines so that you are fully focused on innovating, planning, coding, and deploying.
We support you with
GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Copilot, Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, Azure Artifacts
Create an environment for creating and managing micro-service applications
Continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to push changes automatically
Management for your dev, test, staging and other pre-production environments
Support and maintenance for your code and data pipelines between your different environments
Automate code testing to assess for compliance and quality control
24/7 first line application support for your end customers
End-to-end security of your development environment and code
Why Cloud Direct?
We’re Azure Experts
As one of the first Azure Expert MSPs, we’ve got a long track record of meeting Microsoft’s highest standards and delivering our services to the correct quality and scale.
Microsoft recognises us as an expert partner for Digital & App Innovation Azure
We’ve been thoroughly vetted by Microsoft. They say we’re experts in Digital & App Innovation Azure and we’ve got the solution designation assessment to prove it.
We maximise funding opportunities
We’ve secured more funding for our customers than any other Microsoft partner in the UK. We accelerate project timelines while reducing your financial risk.
We're a Microsoft Partner of the Year for Solution Assessments
We know a thing or two about Microsoft’s Solution Assessments. Working alongside Microsoft, we show you the art of the possible and provide a detailed roadmap to achieving it.
Don’t just take our word for it
Bank Clarity
BankClarity leveraged Microsoft Azure’s tooling for their application, and since then has achieved significant growth by providing the world’s most complex wealth and corporate administrators with an exceptional experience built on innovative and secure technology. The ability to not only demonstrate the product but also to continually iterate and improve the software through Agile development and using DevOps is paramount to BankClarity’s continued growth journey.
1E
“Having Cloud Direct assess our IT estate and implement a good framework has put us in a great position. Everything they delivered has made our migration a success and positioned us well to continue delivering exceptional services for our customers.”
David Todd
Director of IT, 1E
The AI Corporation
“It’s very important for our customers that we work with Cloud Direct, and through them have a tighter bond with Microsoft.
“They’re our Cloud Service Provider, but they provide a lot more than that as well. They help us build out our infrastructure, provide support for that infrastructure if we need any, helped us adopt Azure DevOps for our development teams and they work on the same scales as we do with a 24/7 support service.”
Nick Walker
COO, The AI Corporation