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Advisory & Strategy

The right Azure cloud strategy depends on your business priorities, workload landscape, and cost constraints. eAppSys provides independent **Azure Cloud Advisory & Strategy** to help organisations assess cloud readiness, design secure architectures, develop migration roadmaps, plan Azure landing zones, optimise licensing and costs, and build effective hybrid cloud strategies.

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Azure Cloud Advisory & Strategy

Azure Cloud Advisory & Strategy — Service Areas

eAppSys provides Azure Cloud Advisory & Strategy to help organisations assess cloud readiness, design secure Azure architectures, optimise costs, and develop practical migration roadmaps. Our independent advisory approach covers Azure landing zones, licensing, hybrid cloud, Power Platform, AI applications, and Oracle-Azure integration.

Cloud Readiness Assessment

  • Workload inventory — applications, databases, dependencies
  • Cloud suitability scoring per workload — rehost, replatform, refactor, retire
  • Risk, compliance, and dependency mapping
  • TCO modelling — on-premises vs Azure vs hybrid
  • Azure licensing review — Reserved Instances, Hybrid Benefit
  • Output: readiness report and prioritised migration backlog

Azure Architecture Design

  • Target-state Azure architecture — Well-Architected Framework aligned
  • Landing zone design — subscriptions, management groups, policy hierarchy
  • Network topology — hub-and-spoke, Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute
  • Identity architecture — Entra ID, RBAC, Privileged Identity Management
  • Security baseline — Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure Policy
  • HA/DR design — availability zones, paired regions, RTO/RPO

Migration Roadmap

  • Phased migration plan — wave planning, dependency sequencing
  • Application migration approach: rehost · replatform · refactor per workload
  • Oracle workload coordination — EBS on Azure or OCI/Azure hybrid
  • Fusion Cloud and SaaS coexistence strategy
  • Licensing and cost modelling per migration wave
  • Governance and change management plan

Cost Optimisation & Licensing

  • Reserved Instance and Savings Plan recommendations
  • Azure Hybrid Benefit — Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure
  • Dev/Test pricing for non-production environments
  • Right-sizing — identifying over-provisioned VM and storage
  • Azure Cost Management — tagging, budgets, cost allocation
  • FinOps operating model for ongoing cost governance

Power Platform & Low-Code

  • Power Apps — canvas and model-driven app development
  • Power Automate — approval workflows, data sync, and notifications
  • Power BI embedded analytics within operational applications
  • Dataverse — data modelling, business rules, security model
  • Power Platform governance — environment strategy, DLP policies, ALM
  • Custom connectors for Oracle Fusion Cloud and EBS integration

AI-Powered Applications

  • Azure OpenAI integration — GPT-4o, embeddings, and DALL-E
  • Azure AI Foundry — prompt flow, fine-tuning, AI evaluation
  • RAG — Azure AI Search + OpenAI for enterprise knowledge chatbots
  • Azure AI Document Intelligence — automated document processing
  • Azure Cognitive Services — Vision, Language, Speech in workflows
  • Oracle data as AI context — EBS/Fusion data in Azure AI applications

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Delivery Approach

Delivery Approach

eAppSys delivers Azure engagements in a structured phased approach — clear outputs and decision gates at every stage.

01

Assess

Workload inventory, TCO, licensing, risk and compliance mapping

02

Design

Target Azure architecture, landing zone, network, identity, security baseline

03

Plan

Migration roadmap, wave planning, dependency sequencing, change management

04

Govern

Azure Policy, Cost Management, Defender baseline, ongoing cloud governance

Why eAppSys

Your Azure Partner

Independent — No Forced Path

eAppSys provides independent Azure advisory — the right cloud path at the right pace, whether full migration, hybrid coexistence, or modernisation in place. No commercial incentive to push a specific Azure service or migration approach.

Azure Well-Architected Expertise

Every eAppSys Azure architecture is evaluated against all five pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework — reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.

Licensing Advisory Included

eAppSys reviews Reserved Instance, Savings Plan, Hybrid Benefit, and Dev/Test pricing opportunities before you commit to cloud spend — identifying savings in the design phase, not after deployment.

Oracle + Azure Specialist

eAppSys uniquely advises on Oracle/Azure coexistence — Oracle EBS on OCI connected to Azure via Oracle Cloud Interconnect, Oracle Fusion alongside Azure-native services, and Entra ID federated with Oracle IAM.
Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Azure cloud advisory cover?
Azure cloud advisory covers cloud readiness assessment (workload inventory, suitability scoring, TCO, licensing), Azure architecture design (landing zone, network, identity, security, HA/DR), migration roadmap (wave planning, dependency sequencing, approach per workload), cost optimisation (Reserved Instances, Hybrid Benefit, right-sizing, FinOps), and hybrid/multi-cloud strategy (Azure Arc, OCI+Azure, Azure Stack HCI, UK sovereignty).
The Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) is Microsoft’s guidance for building reliable, secure, cost-effective, operationally excellent, and high-performing Azure solutions across five pillars. eAppSys uses the WAF as the baseline for every Azure architecture engagement — ensuring decisions are evaluated against all five pillars, not just performance or cost in isolation.
eAppSys reviews Reserved Instance and Savings Plan opportunities (1 or 3-year commitments), Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server and SQL Server licences, Dev/Test pricing for non-production environments, right-sizing of over-provisioned VMs and storage, and a FinOps operating model for ongoing cost governance. Cost optimisation is included in every cloud strategy engagement.
eAppSys advises on Oracle/Azure coexistence — Oracle EBS and Oracle Database can run on OCI connected to Azure via Oracle Cloud Interconnect for low-latency OCI-to-Azure connectivity. Oracle Fusion Cloud operates as a SaaS service alongside Azure-native workloads. eAppSys designs the integration, identity federation, and data connectivity between Oracle and Azure environments.
A cloud advisory engagement delivers: a cloud readiness report with workload suitability scores; a target Azure architecture aligned to the Well-Architected Framework; a phased migration roadmap with wave planning; an Azure cost optimisation report with licensing recommendations; and an Azure governance framework — policies, tagging standards, cost allocation, and Defender baseline.
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