Cloud Planning
Scale, Adapt, and Deliver Your Digital Services
As businesses move towards digital-first strategies, cloud planning has become essential to delivering scalable, flexible, and reliable digital services. We work with your team to develop a cloud strategy that harnesses the cloud's opportunity to support your growing and future digital needs.
Working together, we consider the following:
- Scalability & flexibility - We plan and forecast how your infrastructure needs to scale based on your current data and usage.
- Cost optimisation - With careful planning we design and implement models which leverage auto-scaling, right-sizing resources to control and predict costs.
- Global reach - We access global data centres to deliver faster loading times and more reliable services by deploying content and services closer to your customers.
- Security & compliance - Our cloud planning ensures that security protocols, encryption, tools and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) are integrated into your architecture.
- Business continuity - We deploy a robust disaster recovery strategy to ensure your website and digital services quickly recover and continue operating with minimal disruption.
- Service integrations - We plan how to seamlessly integrate your digital services to deliver a unified and efficient digital ecosystem.
- Automation & DevOps - We automate key processes such as deployments, testing, and updates through CI/CD pipelines..
- Future-proofing - We actively monitor and plan for future growth, emerging technologies (e.g., AI and machine learning), and your shifting business needs.
- Migration planning - We support your team in planning your migration from on-prem to the cloud, minimising disruption and helping you retire your physical servers and infrastructure.
With our strategic approach to cloud planning, we leverage cloud technologies' flexibility, security, efficiency, and experience to build a robust foundation for your digital services. We plan for high availability, performance, and long-term growth and expenditure to deliver services to your customers.
Planning delivers benefits across your team
Cloud opens new opportunities for your business to be more agile and proactive in increasing your digital footprint. Here are some of the benefits:
- Scalability for growth - Cloud infrastructure enables your business to scale operations easily, whether expanding to new markets or handling seasonal spikes in demand without major upfront investments.
- Cost-effective - Cloud planning allows for more efficient resource allocation, reducing capital expenditure on physical infrastructure and enabling you to pay only for what they use.
- Collaboration & productivity - The cloud opens up opportunities for your team to explore new products and services that could enhance how you deliver your digital services.
- Business continuity - Cloud removes the dependency on your current on-prem infrastructure, minimising any disruption to your operations in case of a disaster.
For Finance & Ops teams, cloud offers clarity on cost and removes the significant upfront costs associated with on-prem. Here are some of the benefits:
- Cost predictability - Cloud services can operate on a pay-as-you-go model, helping your team better predict and control costs.
- Upfront investment - By avoiding upfront capital expenditures, you can move to an OpEx model that aligns with actual usage.
- Financial reporting - Cloud platforms provide real-time access to financial data, enabling better decision-making through accurate forecasting, budgeting, and performance tracking.
- Risk mitigation - Integrating disaster recovery and backup solutions reduces the risk of financial loss due to system failures.
- Compliance & security - Cloud planning ensures compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, SOX) by leveraging the security features offered by cloud providers.
Cloud offers Marketing and Communication teams the flexibility to launch campaigns without interruption, delivering a scalable and seamless solution to build your brand and CX strategy. Here as some of the benefits:
- Campaign flexibility - Marketing teams can launch, scale, and manage digital campaigns without worrying about infrastructure limitations, allowing for agile responses to market changes.
- Personalisation at scale - Cloud-based platforms support and accelerate real-time personalisation and segmentation, ensuring that your team can easily deliver customised user experiences, content, and offers to different customer segments.
- Improved customer engagement - The cloud’s global reach allows marketing teams to ensure their websites load faster and more reliably, improving the overall user experience and increasing customer engagement and conversions.
- Decision making - Cloud-based platform analytics tools provide real-time insights into user behaviour, website performance, and campaign effectiveness, empowering your team to adjust strategies as needed.
- Integration ready - Cloud platforms support seamless integration with various systems, enabling a cohesive digital marketing ecosystem.
For Technology and Support teams, the cloud delivers services and supports that secure your investment and free up resources to support the business. Here are some of the benefits:
- Streamlined infrastructure management - Cloud solutions allow our teams to focus on improving digital offerings rather than maintaining physical servers and infrastructure.
- Scalable and reliable hosting - We can easily scale your services on demand, ensuring high availability and reliability during traffic spikes or marketing campaigns.
- Faster deployments and updates - Cloud-based DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines allow us to rapidly deploy updates, bug fixes, and new features without downtime.
- Support for innovation - The cloud allows your teams to experiment with new technologies and features, such as AI or microservices architecture, without risking the stability of core operations.