PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Our Azure Services
Azure Migrations
If your company is looking to migrate to Azure, our migration practice helps customers migrate from on-premise VMware/Hyper-V, Colo such as Rackspace, or other clouds like AWS to a Microsoft Azure Datacenter or Azure Stack Infrastructures. This team also helps clients migrate existing workloads in Azure IaaS to Azure PaaS including SQL Server to Azure SQL Database, SQL SSIS to Data Factory, SQL SSRS/Tableau to PowerBI, Data Warehouses to Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database Tables to Data Lake, and many others.
Organizations can deploy market-leading DataOps capabilities with our platform that enables an intelligent data fabric for faster, trusted AI outcomes. Solutions include multicloud data integration, automated data cataloging and master data management, all designed to increase efficiency, data quality, findability and governing rules in order to provide a self-service data pipeline.
Your Azure environment changes constantly
Engineers spin up and down new instances, change security groups, and experiment with new Azure services. So how do you make sure that your cloud doesn’t turn into the Wild West? We recommend you conduct a well-architected Review every 12-18 months. This is a systematic approach to evaluating Azure architectures and can help you identify and fix potential issues with your environment. It’s based off our Azure framework, which is a comprehensive set of best practices.
Operational excellence is the ability to run and monitor systems that deliver business value and continuously improve supporting processes and procedures. Here are the six design principles:
- Perform operations as code
- Annotated documentation
- Make frequent, small, reversible changes
- Refine operations procedures frequently
- Anticipate failure
- Learn from all operational failures
Our Process for a Well-Architected Review
During the well-architected review, a cloud expert will review your workload using the well-architected tool against the five pillars. Once the review is completed, your company will receive videos and documentation related to Azure best practices, a report summarizing your workload review, and a dashboard where you can view the results of workload reviews across the organization. You can then use the detailed findings to remediate issues and improve your infrastructure according to Azure best practices.
Unlike other well-established security standards, the review tackles architectural best practices, cost efficiency, and other principles not traditionally evaluated in formal audits. Logicworks recommends the framework because it codifies and consolidates best practices across ITIL, Agile, and DevOps. It covers more than how to build a good Azure architecture. It also shows you how you should maintain it.
Azure Optimizations
For current or recent Azure clients, our Optimization Team reviews your existing setup and makes clear, actionable recommendations to improve its performance, security, and affordability. Our suggestions are also based on Microsoft’s latest Best Practice guidance. In addition to performance and cost optimization assessments, we offer Azure assessments for optimizing storage and adding high availability. Our optimization toolset involves both graphical and automated solutions that interact with Azure.
Developed Dashboard
Our internally developed dashboard is where it all starts. Aggregating a simple cost view with the recommendations across IaaS and PaaS resources, shows how much savings is possible in spending.
Suite of On-Demand
Non-production servers need to be online only when employees are actively working on them. We created a suite of on-demand and scheduled tools which allows you to turn off or de-allocate over 70 percent of the time, which is a direct cost reduction.
Our Servers
Azure provides the ability to quickly change the size of a server with a simple reboot. Dropping the size and cost of a virtual machine by more than half, at large scale, lets you to quickly use the flexibility of the cloud to recapture IT spending.
Azure DevOps
Henson Group's DevOps team can assist your company with establishing, improving, or outsourcing your DevOps. Our remote DevOps teams have extensive experience with various projects, which we employ in handling organizational activities, software development management, and resolving issues. In fact, our software deployment speed is incredibly fast due to our already well-established operational methodology.
We work with you to integrate a clear organizational structure for a remote DevOps team that utilizes task-based assignments making our DevOps work efficient and result-oriented. Another plus of outsourcing DevOps to our company is the price tag. The average salary for middle DevOps engineer is $125,000 in English-speaking countries. We offer hourly rates for the same DevOps engineer for $60/hour. Lastly, we have no contracts so you can cancel at any time.
Azure DataOps
DataOps is the orchestration of people, processes, and technology to deliver trusted, business-ready data to data citizens, operations, and applications throughout the data lifecycle. With properly governed data, businesses can derive better insights that lead to new market opportunities while managing complex regulation compliance, data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI) model accuracy.
Organizations can deploy market-leading DataOps capabilities with our platform that enables an intelligent data fabric for faster, trusted AI outcomes. Solutions include multicloud data integration, automated data cataloging and master data management, all designed to increase efficiency, data quality, findability and governing rules in order to provide a self-service data pipeline.
Azure Data & AI
If data is the new oil, machine learning is the engine that powers the creation of value from this data. It uses data on what has happened in conjunction with complex, well-studied mathematical algorithms to predict what will happen and why, enabling smarter, faster, and data-driven decisions across an organization.
Machine Learning has helped different teams reinvent themselves, resulting in sales and marketing driving high engagement and lowering customer acquisition costs, supply chain reducing lost sales and excess inventory, and operations increasing asset uptime and minimizing maintenance costs. However, the task of delivering machine learning solutions across the business is no easy feat. Few organizations have the in-house know-how and the ability to develop the cross-functional teams necessary to succeed.
As an Azure Expert MSP, we have been helping large enterprises successfully build and implement machine learning solutions across their business to realize a measurable ROI.
ML Pilot
Are your looking to understand how machine learning can be used to create value? Our experts will work with you to rapidly validate, prototype, pilot, and measure your case.
ML Enablement
We have worked closely with data science and engineering teams to help them in areas of value identification, delivery, and technical frameworks as well as productivity tools.
ML Technical Advisory
Our consultants will work with your team to understand your business context, data, and desired outcome for the most effective machine learning solution.
Azure IoT
Shift to value with IoT
IoT is quickly entering into its next evolution. Thanks to cloud computing, the use of IoT now goes well beyond sci-fi movies. IoT is embedded in sensors in clothing, factory floor equipment, pharmaceutical processing and driverless cars. IoT is past the device stage and is now moving into making use of the data gathered from specific IoT devices - otherwise known as IoT Edge.
With intelligence gathering, IoT delivers enormous untapped opportunity. Businesses can use IoT to identify early warning patterns, monitor a person’s health, track production levels and quickly respond without physician intervention. However. most organizations have stockpiled their data instead of mining it. That means they’re missing out on the insights it can provide to transform customer experiences, optimize operations, modernize employee experiences and create new business opportunities.
Focus on your goals – not just the sensors and data
We can help develop and optimize your IoT strategy through design-led approaches, keeping you focused on your end goals, rather than just the sensor or the data. We can help you integrate and use sensor data in your business processes to transform how you work. Whether you’re thinking of using IoT to build a predictive maintenance solution, control office environments, drive operational excellence in manufacturing processes or embrace IoT Edge, we can help.
Azure Virtual Desktop
Spend more time on your core business and increase employee productivity. Henson Group's AVD is a secure, easy to customize, Windows 10 Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution for your workforce. It's a breeze to implement, cost effective, comes with unlimited support, and is built on platforms that are PCI, HIPAA and SOC2 compliant.
- Deploy in minutes
- Zero IT intervention
- Enterprise-grade security