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Is the Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite Right
for Your Organization?
The move from some or even all of your on-premises IT environment to a cloud-based environment does not need to be overly complex. It all depends on your needs and current IT architecture. BlumShapiro can help you determine the best solution.
For some organizations, the decision to migrate from an on-premise scenario to a cloud-based solution is self-evident, while, for others, it may not make technical or financial sense. To help organizations better understand potential cost savings, technical benefits, operational improvements and software accessibility, BlumShapiro has developed a set of assessment tools. The first assessment walks an organization through a series of questions and answers, in accordance with the organization’s specific business needs, to highlight the potential benefits of the BPOS solution.
The second assessment is a cost worksheet that underscores the hard and soft costs of the various server products on premise and juxtaposes those against the cost of running them in the cloud. BlumShapiro provides these assessments to our clients at no charge in an effort to help both of us understand the viability of transitioning these services to the cloud.
If the result of this assessment shows that moving to the hosted BPOS platform makes technical and financial sense, BlumShapiro can take the complexity out of hosted migrations.
Is Microsoft Azure Right for Your Organization?
There are several challenges that an organization faces when starting to explore Azure technologies. Before migrating to the Azure platform, BlumShapiro performs an assessment to evaluate the fit from a technical standpoint and the benefits from a financial one. Generally speaking, a traditional ASP.NET application can transition to the Azure platform without any significant changes. However, the question is whether moving that application without making changes makes sense from a technical or financial standpoint.
BlumShapiro has a total cost-of-ownership assessment tool for Azure that can help you understand the costs involved and where the variability lies.
In addition to the assessment, BlumShapiro can provide you with an overview of the platform from both a business and technical perspective. This will allow you to understand Azure’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as carry out an architectural assessment of an existing or to-be-built application to determine how it would transition to the Azure platform. We would then assess the economics of the move specific for that application to help you gauge the overall expense.
