Cloud done with discipline. Not just lift-and-shift.

Microsoft sells the platform; partners deliver the outcome. The platform is brilliant; the gap between 'we have an Azure subscription' and 'our Azure estate is secure, governed, and cost-efficient' is enormous. A good partner brings landing zone patterns, migration tooling, FinOps discipline, and Microsoft escalation paths you don't have direct. We've seen organizations spend twice their projected Azure budget in year one because nobody set tagging, budgets, and right-sizing cadence at the start. That's the partner gap, and it's not free to close after the fact.

Foundation (landing zone, identity, network) is 6–12 weeks. Workload migration runs in waves of 4–12 weeks each depending on complexity. A mid-market organization with 100–200 servers and a few dozen applications typically completes migration in 9–18 months. Modernization (replatforming SQL, refactoring apps to PaaS or containers) extends well beyond that and is usually best treated as a separate, ongoing program. Anyone promising a 'big bang' migration of a complex enterprise estate in three months is selling lift-and-shift without modernization, with all the cost and complexity that implies.

Three disciplines, applied consistently. One: tagging and chargeback so cost has an owner — untagged spend is unowned spend. Two: reserved instances and savings plans for steady-state workloads (30–70% savings vs. pay-as-you-go). Three: a monthly right-sizing cadence using Azure Advisor and Cost Management — VMs, SQL, and storage are commonly over-provisioned by 30–50%. Most organizations we audit are spending 25–40% more than they need to on Azure simply because nobody owns FinOps. Closing that gap is a fast payback on partner cost.

Tightly, in three main patterns. One: Power Platform connectors and Azure API Management for synchronous, request-response integrations to SAP, Oracle, Workday, etc. Two: Azure Service Bus and Event Grid for asynchronous, event-driven integration — Dynamics emits Business Events, downstream systems consume them. Three: Azure Data Lake / Synapse / Microsoft Fabric for analytics — Dynamics exports to Data Lake natively, then is shaped for warehouse-grade reporting. We design the integration layer in Azure once, then plug Dynamics, Salesforce, ERP, and other systems into it rather than building point-to-point integrations that calcify.

Azure is certified across most major frameworks (HIPAA via BAA, PCI DSS, SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, FedRAMP High via Azure Government). Compliance is a shared responsibility — Microsoft secures the platform; you configure tenant policy, identity, network controls, and data protection appropriate to the framework. We deploy Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM/SOAR), and Microsoft Purview (data governance) as the default security baseline. Healthcare and government workloads we deploy in regions and tiers (Azure Government, Azure Healthcare) appropriate to the regulatory profile.

Dynamics 365 itself runs in Microsoft-managed Azure infrastructure — you don't deploy it into your own subscription. What you deploy in your Azure tenant is the surrounding ecosystem: integration layer (Logic Apps, Service Bus, Functions), analytics (Data Lake, Synapse, Fabric), custom apps (App Service, AKS), and identity (Entra ID). The Dynamics tenant connects to your Azure tenant via standard authentication and APIs. This split is intentional: Microsoft operates the SaaS, you own the surrounding cloud estate. We design both halves so they're cleanly separated and properly governed.