Launchpad Azure Migration Assessment
Synextra
Moving to Azure without proper assessment leads to problems: budget overruns from inaccurate sizing, missed modernisation opportunities, and architectural decisions that create technical debt. Most assessments rely on automated tooling that spits out raw data without context or useful guidance.
Synextra's Azure Launchpad Assessment is a consultant-led engagement where experienced Azure specialists work directly with your teams to deliver highly accurate cost projections (within 5%) and a clear roadmap for migration and transformation.
Why Our Assessment Is Different
Consultant-Led Engagement: Senior Azure consultants work directly with your teams—not junior analysts running tools. We review what's worked and what hasn't in your previous projects, understand your business constraints, and provide guidance on security, operations, DevOps practices, and future scalability.
±5% Cost Projection Precision: We use Azure Migrate for discovery, but experienced consultants analyse the outputs to spot what tools miss: application dependencies, integration complexity, development patterns, and actual usage behaviours. This means you get cost projections you can rely on, accurate to within 5%.
Application-Layer Understanding: We look at your application architecture, existing development work, integration points, data pipelines, and how you deploy and manage things today. This means we can recommend both migration and transformation approaches.
Modernisation Opportunities: We identify specific opportunities to introduce DevOps practices, strengthen security, implement data intelligence capabilities, and adopt cloud-native patterns — not just where to shift workloads.
Budget Alignment: If your infrastructure budget is wrong, you can't magic up more money later, and it means missing out on other initiatives that could drive your business forward. We make sure your Azure design fits your financial reality from the start.
How Launchpad Works
Discovery (7-10 Days): Capture real-time usage and application behaviour to identify the right-sized resources.
Dependency Mapping: Map how your systems relate to each other to avoid disruption and plan migration sequencing.
Azure Design: Detailed architecture blueprint with compute sizing, networking, security, and modernisation opportunities.
Cost Projections: Clear breakdown of migration and ongoing Azure costs with ±5% variance.
What You'll Receive
• Azure landing zone design following Cloud Adoption Framework
• Application modernisation roadmap with platform services, containerisation, and DevOps first practices
• 12-month cost forecast with reserved capacity and Azure Hybrid Benefit analysis
• Development and integration assessment with infrastructure-as-code recommendations
• Phased migration plan with waves, timelines, and success criteria