Application modernisation
Unlock business opportunities with modernised applications
Elevate your applications for the cloud era
Your business is evolving, and your applications should evolve with it. Rather than simply leaving your legacy applications behind, you should look to transform them into cloud-ready and AI-enabled assets, enhancing their performance, scalability, and security.
Assess your applications for cloud readiness
Whether you’re migrating for the first time or innovating relentlessly, Azure is the perfect home for your applications. From Container Apps and Microservices to DevOps and an entire suite of security products, Azure gives you the tools you need for non-stop transformation.
Our experts possess the flexibility, agility, and scalability to work in a way that suits you. We’ll work alongside your in-house development team, or provide you with a cloud-native app development team of our own, to conduct assessments that…
Outline your target end state
Our experts will identify what your application’s goals are and pinpoint the best migration methodology.
Assess Application dependencies
We’ll look at the entire application ecosystem to deliver a solution compatible with your environment.
Dovetail into your IT strategy
Our recommendations will be based on a long-term business view of your performance requirements and Azure cost efficiencies.
Looking for a partner to help you modernise your application?
You’re in the right place. As part of our best practice approach, we help you assess, plan, and implement modernisation across your applications, both internal and external.
Assess
Plan
Implement
We enable you to build scalable, cloud-native applications that consider security and ongoing operations at each and every stage. You’ll outpace your competitors both in the sprint to the cloud, and in the marathon of operating there.
Assess and plan
Our experts will work with you to understand if migrating your application to Azure is the most effective plan.
We’ll help you assess what actions need to be taken to make the migration a success.
We’ll determine which of the five Rs of application modernisation is the most effective route for you to take.
There are five ways to modernise an application, and our team of engineers are accomplished in each of them. The five Rs of application modernisation are a cornerstone of our assessments, making sure we leverage the right technique at the right time to make the biggest impact on your project.
Rehost
Lift an application into Azure, making no changes
Refactor
Modify an application to enhance performance
Rearchitect
Rewrite the code to optimise an application in Azure
Rebuild
Rebuild an application from scratch to be cloud-native
Replace
Retire an application in favour of a new, cloud-native alternative
Lastly, we’ll set you up with a roadmap, business case and actionable set of next steps
Implement
There’s no time like the present. With your roadmap in place, it’s time to modernise your applications.
Either as an extension of your team, or as project leads, our in-house developers will work with you to plan your application modifications.
We will work with you to complete the prep work required to move your application into the cloud.
Containerise your application.
Build a Landing Zone for a safe deployment from experts to make it secure and scalable.
Level up your customer service
Great customer service is what sets you apart. It can determine your company’s success or failure. Our services will enable you to better engage with your customers, transform your products, optimise your operations, and empower your employees – allowing you to grow better.
We’ll make sure you get the most out of Azure, so that your modernised applications leave a lasting impact on the people that engage with them.
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 Infrastructure
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
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