Cloud Assessment Service

Overview

Softcat's Cloud Assessment Services help you to build an understanding of your current IT estate’s suitability for a potential move to the public cloud. Our two assessment services are designed to help you to build a plan with increasing levels of depth. Our tool-led “Standard Cloud Assessment” gives you a start point in your cloud journey by giving you a high-level illustration of your IT estate on the public cloud, including an estimation of costs. Our consultant-led “Advanced Cloud Assessment” supports you to delve deeper and in more detail by leveraging the knowledge of our Cloud Technical Experts supported by specialist tooling. Whatever your journey, we will ensure you get the right advice to take the next steps.

Features and Benefits

Full Review

Both our Standard & Advanced Assessments use industry leading assessment tooling to complete a detailed analysis of your IT environment. They uncover everything from the suitability of workloads for migration, to their dependencies, the utilisation of the infrastructure, and their likely running costs once migrated.

Workload assessment

Our Advanced Assessment offers you the experience of Cloud Technical Experts who can ensure each workload’s most optimal migration path is identified rather than a pure lift and shift approach.

Tailored to your specific needs

We understand that the needs and complexities of your business are specific to you. For this reason, our Advanced Assessment provides Cloud Technical Experts who will take time to understand your organisation’s exact requirements to make sure our approach works for you.

Best practice recommendations

We know there is much more to a transformative project or programme than can be addressed by tooling alone. Because of this, we make sure that our people provide our educated with up-to-date advice and guidance.

Cloud Assessment Services

1 Standard Cloud Assessment

2 Advanced Cloud Assessment

Softcat’s Standard Cloud Assessment service is tool-led and designed to analyse your existing IT environment, including inventory review, and provides cost insights to help illustrate its suitability for life on the public cloud. 

You will be involved at every step throughout the discovery and assessment journey and will receive a written report summarising our findings, supported with a follow-up a call with one of Softcat’s Public Cloud Specialists to discuss your next steps.

Explore the benefits of taking part, or all, of your IT environment to the public cloud

Use your organisation’s IT environment data to model a its residency in the public cloud

Receive an estimation of the likely running costs and cost optimisation opportunities for your workloads

Digest a written report summarising the assessment’s findings, followed by a call to discuss them in detail with a Softcat Public Cloud Specialist

Softcat's Advanced Cloud Assessment Service is consultant-led and designed to deliver a tailored and detailed analysis of your IT environment using Softcat’s Cloud Technical Experts supported by the right industry-recognised tooling. We know that all our customers have specific requirements when considering a migration to the public cloud, so we will spend time with you to tailor the assessment to your exact requirements.

Tailor your engagement to meet your organisation’s goals and specific needs from the assessment

Build a complete understanding of your workloads, dependencies and environment through our engaging, hands-on assessment

Generate detailed application scoring to ensure each application’s optimal migration journey is identified in accordance with the 6Rs

Summarise the assessment in a written report including all key findings, supported by a follow-up engagement with us to discuss them in detail.