Shaping Cloud | Consult, Engineer, Operate | Microsoft Cloud Partner
UK Microsoft cloud partner since 2010

Consult Engineer Operate

One connected team for your Microsoft cloud. We help you decide what to do next, build it properly and run it brilliantly, across Azure, security, identity, data and AI.

design becomes build build becomes run insight shapes what's next Your Microsoft cloud Consult Engineer Operate
  • Microsoft Solutions Partner
  • UK-based team, no overseas personnel
  • G-Cloud 15 supplier
  • Cyber Essentials Plus certified

Trusted by teams at

  • MS Amlin (MSIG)
  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • DWF
  • Red Bull
  • BBC
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Pertemps
  • Regatta
  • Polyflor
  • PRS for Music
  • Manchester Building Society
  • Analysys Mason
  • Bericap
  • Allscripts
  • EDT
  • Agrimetrics
  • CallSquad
  • Frog
  • Bubble
  • The Children's ISA
  • London Business School
  • The University of Sheffield
  • The University of Nottingham
  • Northern Care Alliance
  • Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group
  • Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
  • Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • NHS Digital
  • Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership
  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority
  • Homes England
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Ofsted
  • The Insolvency Service
  • Manchester City Council
  • Lancashire County Council
  • Oxfordshire County Council
  • Derbyshire County Council
  • Durham County Council
  • Norfolk County Council
  • Wokingham Borough Council
  • London Borough of Havering
  • oneSource
  • South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue
  • Sport and Recreation Alliance
  • Royal British Legion
How we work

Three ways we help. One team behind all of them.

Most partners advise, build or run. We do all three, and each makes the others better. What we learn running your estate shapes the advice we give and the next thing we build.

Consult

Clear advice you can act on

Assessments, strategy and commercial assurance from people who build and run Azure every day. You get a practical plan, not a slide deck that sits on a shelf.

  • Azure readiness assessments and roadmaps
  • Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment
  • Identity & Access Health Review
  • Executive Commercial Clarity for large Azure commitments
  • Data workshops and AI readiness
  • Azure Virtual Desktop readiness
Example: Northern Care Alliance
2 trusts, 1 plan

We assessed the services, applications and infrastructure of two acute trusts ahead of their merger, then delivered the architecture, a costed business case and the roadmap to bring them together.

Engineer

Built deliberately, secured by design

Certified Azure engineers who design, migrate and modernise with infrastructure as code, in your own DevOps environment. No black boxes and no lock-in.

  • Azure landing zones with Terraform and Azure DevOps
  • Migration and modernisation
  • Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Microsoft Entra, Zero Trust and privileged access
  • Microsoft Fabric and bespoke AI agents
  • Skills On Demand: experts embedded in your team
Example: MS Amlin London Digital Hub
20 to 30 days

A fully automated, best-practice Azure landing zone for the insurer's innovation team. Automation saves 20 to 30 person-days a year and new ideas reach production faster.

Operate

Operated without drama

Azure Managed Advantage keeps your platform secure, stable and cost-efficient, with engineering capacity built in so it keeps improving instead of drifting.

  • Monitoring, backup and security
  • Cost optimisation and FinOps
  • Governance and continuous improvement
  • Managed Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Identity governance and access reviews
  • Flexible support, up to 24x7
Example: UK central government department
32% lower

As part of our full Azure managed service, we cut the department's Azure costs by 32%, around £118,000 a year, with performance and security maintained.

It's a loop, not a handover. The engineers who build your platform are the people who run it, and what they see every day feeds straight back into your roadmap.

Capabilities and services

Everything connects

Six capabilities, each one available across Consult, Engineer and Operate. Pick where you are today and see how we can help next.

Highlight:
Consult
Engineer
Operate

Skills On Demand works across all three. Certified Azure architects and engineers embedded in your team, flexing up or down as you need.

Industries

We know your world

From NHS trusts to global insurers, our clients work in sectors where mistakes aren't an option. Here's what Consult, Engineer and Operate look like in yours.

Results

Real outcomes, not just recommendations

32%

lower Azure costs for a UK central government department, around £118,000 a year

Operate
33%

lower Azure costs for a large UK recruitment firm, with a further 10% saved since

Operate
20-30

person-days a year saved through automation for MS Amlin's London Digital Hub

Engineer
~3,000

radiology image views across the North West PACS portal in its first six months

Engineer

I love the fact that we now have genuine institutional confidence in trying new things.

John Walker, Head of London Digital Hub, MS Amlin (Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group)
Why Shaping Cloud

Technology without the technobabble

One connected team

The people who advise you also build and run your platform, so nothing gets lost between project and service.

No black boxes, no lock-in

We work as code in your own DevOps environment. You can see everything we do and take it over whenever you like.

UK-based, public sector ready

A UK team with no overseas personnel, BPSS-cleared staff and Cyber Essentials Plus certification.

Partners for the long term

High client retention and relationships that last, including clients we've supported for more than five years.

Microsoft since 2010

More than 15 years designing, migrating and running Microsoft cloud, with early access to Microsoft programmes and funding.

Ready for what's next

From AI agents to Microsoft Fabric, we help you adopt new technology safely, with identity, security and cost under control.

Ways to work with us:
G-Cloud 15
Direct
Microsoft-funded programmes, where eligible
Let's talk

Wherever you are on the loop, start with a conversation

Book a call with one of our Azure architects. No obligation and no hard sell, just honest advice on what to do next.