Migration Planning Assessment

Turn Assessment Findings Into an Executable Migration Plan.

Knowing what to migrate isn't the same as knowing how to execute it. Our Migration Planning Assessment takes your readiness findings and builds a detailed strategy per workload, migration sequencing, wave plans, runbooks, and cutover procedures — the plan your team actually runs on migration day.

Assessment FindingsStrategy SelectionSequencing & WavesRunbooksCutover PlanMigration Roadmap
Diagnostic // Risk Signals

Signs You Need a Migration Planning Assessment

COST MODEL

Your cost estimate came from a spreadsheet, not a dependency map

If nobody can show you which applications, integrations, and data flows the estimate accounts for, the number isn't reliable yet.

DEPENDENCIES

No one can tell you the full list of what's connected to what

Undocumented integrations are the single most common reason a planned cutover turns into an unplanned outage.

RE-SCOPE RISK

Previous migration attempts have stalled or been re-scoped

A stalled migration is usually a sign the original plan wasn't built on complete information, not that the team executing it did anything wrong.

TIMELINE DRIFT

Leadership and engineering are working from different timelines

If Finance is planning around one date and engineering around another, there isn't yet a single roadmap — there are two guesses.

BOARD-READYSIGNAL_05

You need to defend the business case to a board or investment committee

A migration planning assessment produces the cost model, risk plan, and roadmap that make that conversation a formality instead of a gamble.

Definition01

What Is a Migration Planning Assessment?

Turn migration intent into an executable, defensible plan.

A migration planning assessment evaluates workloads, applications, infrastructure, dependencies, business priorities, cost, security, and operational requirements — then answers the three questions that actually determine whether a migration succeeds:

1What should move
2How it should move
3When
What It Covers
Workload AssessmentApplication DependenciesMigration StrategyBusiness PrioritizationCost & TCOSecurity & ComplianceTarget ArchitectureMigration Sequencing
Planning Flow
Business Goals
Current Environment
1Assessment
2Migration Strategy
3Prioritization
4Execution Roadmap
IntentExecutable Plan
Assessment Scope

What We Assess

Nine dimensions of your environment, evaluated together — not in isolation — so the plan reflects how your business actually operates.

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Applications & workloads

Business criticality, complexity, compatibility, performance requirements, migration suitability.

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Infrastructure

Compute, storage, databases, networking, environments, and infrastructure dependencies.

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Dependencies & integrations

Application relationships, APIs, databases, external systems, sequencing constraints.

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Security & compliance

Identity, access, encryption, data protection, regulatory requirements, security gaps.

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Operations & DevOps

Monitoring, backup, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, incident response, support readiness.

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Cost & TCO

Current infrastructure cost, projected cloud cost, migration effort, licensing, optimization opportunities.

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Business priorities

Migration drivers, timelines, risk tolerance, expected outcomes.

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Technical constraints

Legacy technologies, unsupported components, licensing restrictions, remediation needs.

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Post-migration operating model

Who manages the environment after cutover — in-house, managed service, or hybrid — and what skills or support gaps that choice creates.

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06 // Strategy & Prioritization

Migration Strategy & Workload Prioritization

Not every workload should move the same way. We assign a migration strategy per workload using the 6R framework — click a marker to see how it applies.

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Move with minimal application change.

Prioritization
Business Criticality
Technical Complexity
Dependencies
Readiness
Cost
Migration Priority
07 // Dependency & Risk Analysis

Dependency & Risk Analysis

Find the blockers before they become budget or downtime.

Undocumented integrations and tightly coupled services are what turn a planned cutover into an unplanned outage — and an unplanned outage is what turns up in the next board update.

Application Dependencies
Data Dependencies
Integration Dependencies
Infrastructure Constraints
Security Risks
Operational Gaps
Migration Sequencing Risks
Business Continuity Risks
How We Work Through It
Discover DependenciesSTEP_01

Map every connection, not just the documented ones.

Identify RisksSTEP_02

Flag what could break, stall, or cost more than planned.

Assess ImpactSTEP_03

Score severity against business and technical exposure.

Define MitigationSTEP_04

A concrete fallback for every risk that's carried forward.

Plan MigrationSTEP_05

Feed findings straight into strategy and sequencing.

08 // Migration Wave Planning

Migration Wave Planning

Move workloads in the right order — migration is a sequence, not a single event.

Wave 01

Foundation wave

Landing zone, networking, identity, security, governance, shared services.

Wave 02

Pilot wave

Lower-risk workloads that validate the approach.

Wave 03

Core migration waves

Prioritized business applications and their dependencies.

Wave 04

Critical workloads

Business-critical systems with additional validation, testing, and recovery planning.

Wave 05

Optimization wave

Post-migration modernization, performance, and cost optimization.

09 // Cost & TCO Assessment

Cost & TCO Assessment

Understand the financial picture before migration begins.

We model current infrastructure cost, target cloud cost, workload sizing, migration effort, licensing, data transfer, operational cost, and optimization opportunities into one view.

08Dimensions in the model
Current infrastructure cost baseline
Target cloud cost estimates
Workload sizing
Migration effort
Licensing
Data transfer
Operational cost
Optimization opportunities
10 // How We Work

Our Migration Planning Process

Step 01

Discover

Business objectives, workloads, infrastructure, dependencies, constraints.

Step 02

Assess

Technical readiness, security, operations, cost, migration complexity.

Step 03

Strategize

Migration strategies, workload categories, target architecture direction, remediation needs.

Step 04

Prioritize

Migration waves built on business value, dependencies, complexity, and risk.

Step 05

Roadmap

Timelines, sequencing, ownership, effort, and next steps for execution.

Benefits & Outcomes

What You Get From a Migration Plan

Reduce migration risk

Surface gaps and dependencies before they cause failures.

Minimize delays & rework

Fewer mid-project redesigns and repeated planning cycles.

Prioritize high-value workloads

Move what matters most, first.

Improve cost visibility

Know the spend before you commit to it.

Align teams around one plan

Engineering, operations, security, and leadership working from the same roadmap.

Accelerate execution

A clear plan means migration starts faster and moves more predictably.

Cloud Advisory

Turn Your Assessment Into
an Executable Migration Plan

Get a sequenced migration roadmap with per-workload strategy, dependency mapping, runbooks, and cutover planning.

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