Technologies / AzureAzure, built for
the enterprise.
Microsoft's cloud, done properly — landing zones, Entra ID, AKS, and compliance-ready deployments. For organisations that need identity governance and audit trails as much as they need compute.
15+
Azure engineers
8+
Enterprise migrations
99.98%
Uptime across our workloads
100%
Compliance-ready delivery
The stack
Tools we ship with.
Azure CLI
Command line
Bicep
IaC (native)
Terraform
IaC (multi-cloud)
Pulumi
IaC (real code)
AKS
Managed Kubernetes
Functions
Serverless
Container Apps
Serverless containers
Cosmos DB
Global NoSQL
Azure SQL
Managed SQL
Front Door
Global load balancer
Monitor
Observability
Entra ID
Identity
Well-Architected Framework
The five pillars we design against.
Every architecture we ship is reviewed against Microsoft's Azure Well-Architected Framework. Not a checklist — the lens that catches problems before production.
Reliability
Multi-region, zone-redundant services, chaos engineering. Every workload has a documented RTO and RPO.
Security
Zero Trust by default. Entra ID, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, PIM, Conditional Access.
Cost Optimization
Reservations, Hybrid Benefit, autoscale, Advisor recommendations. Reviewed monthly.
Operational Excellence
IaC, Azure DevOps, safe deployment practices, canary releases.
Performance Efficiency
Right-sizing, caching strategies, PaaS over IaaS where it fits.
Cost optimization
How the 30% average reduction happens.
Not one big change — six smaller ones, applied consistently. Here's where the money actually comes from.
Reserved Instances
1- or 3-year commitments. Up to 72% off pay-as-you-go for steady-state workloads.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Bring Windows Server and SQL Server licenses. Saves on top of reservations.
Autoscale policies
Scale to zero where workloads allow. Schedule-based scaling for predictable patterns.
Spot VMs
Up to 90% off for interruptible workloads. Batch, CI runners, dev environments.
Advisor recommendations
Idle resources, underutilized VMs, orphaned disks. Free to run, easy wins.
Cost Management + Budgets
Granular cost visibility. Alerts by resource group, tag, or subscription.
Real engagement · 6 weeks
Before
$220,000
After
$154,000
Saved
30%
Where it came from
Reserved Instances (compute)
$42,000 / year
Hybrid Benefit (SQL Server)
$16,000 / year
Autoscale + idle cleanup
$8,000 / year
Service pillars
Six pillars. Everything an enterprise needs.
Azure isn't one service — it's a catalogue. We group it into six pillars and work with the services that matter most.
Pillar 01
Compute
App Service
AKS
Container Apps
Functions
Virtual Machines
Batch
Multi-subscription architecture
Landing zone. Not a single subscription.
Every serious Azure deployment uses subscriptions as security and billing boundaries. One breach shouldn't compromise everything you run.
Management groups
Hierarchy that maps to org structure. Policies and RBAC inherited from the top.
Subscriptions as boundaries
One per environment, team, or workload. Billing and security separation.
Azure Policy
What resources can and can't be deployed. Region locks, SKU allowlists, naming rules.
RBAC + PIM
Least privilege. Just-in-time elevation via Privileged Identity Management.
Hub-spoke networking
Centralized egress, firewalls, DNS resolution. Spokes peer to the hub.
Centralized logging
Log Analytics workspace in a management subscription. Diagnostics from every resource.
Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
Identity is the perimeter now.
Entra ID is the reason enterprises pick Azure. It's not just SSO — it's the whole governance layer that makes compliance possible.
SSO with SAML / OIDC
Single sign-on for every internal app. B2B guest access for partners.
Conditional Access
Device posture, location, sign-in risk. Policy decisions evaluated per request.
PIM (Privileged Identity Management)
Just-in-time elevation. No standing owner access. Every activation audited.
B2B guest access
External collaborators with their own credentials. Managed by your policies.
Entra ID Connect
Hybrid identity sync from on-prem AD. Password hash sync or pass-through auth.
Managed identities
Passwordless service-to-service auth. No secrets in code or config.
Workload identity federation
GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and other workloads authenticate without secrets.
Identity Protection
ML-based risk signals. Automatic remediation on high-risk sign-ins.
Migration
The six R's, applied.
Migration isn't one thing. It's a portfolio decision — where you rehost, replatform, refactor, or retire. Every workload gets the right answer.
Rehost
Lift-and-shift. Azure Migrate + Site Recovery for bulk VM movement.
Replatform
Small changes for cloud benefits — Azure SQL, App Service, AKS.
Refactor
Rearchitect for cloud-native. Functions, Container Apps, event-driven patterns.
Repurchase
Move to SaaS — Dynamics, M365, third-party SaaS.
Retain
Some workloads stay on-prem. Azure Arc gives you cloud management anyway.
Retire
Delete what nobody uses. Migration is a chance to clean house.
Azure Migrate
Discovery, assessment, dependency mapping across your portfolio.
Database Migration Service
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle → Azure data services.
Azure Data Box
Physical bulk data transfer. TBs to PBs offline.
Azure Site Recovery
Continuous replication for DR and lift-and-shift cutovers.
Azure Arc
Manage on-prem, AWS, and GCP resources from Azure.
Cloud Adoption Framework
Microsoft's official methodology. We follow it, we've refined it.
Security posture
What every production tenant has.
These aren't aspirational. They're the baseline we enforce on every tenant we touch. If any are missing, the environment isn't production-ready.
No standing owner access
criticalPIM for every privileged role. Just-in-time elevation, every activation audited.
Conditional Access everywhere
criticalAll users, all apps, all sign-ins. Device posture, location, risk-based.
MFA on every admin
criticalHardware keys or authenticator apps. No SMS. No exceptions.
Defender for Cloud
criticalEnabled across every subscription. Secure Score tracked, findings triaged.
Sentinel for SIEM
criticalLog aggregation, threat detection, automated response. Not just logs.
Key Vault for every secret
criticalNo secrets in config files or app settings. Managed Identity where possible.
Managed identities over SPs
Passwordless auth between services. Service principals only when unavoidable.
Private endpoints for PaaS
Storage, SQL, Cosmos — all reachable only inside the VNet.
Azure Policy for drift
Public storage, unencrypted disks, non-approved regions — caught automatically.
Diagnostic settings to Log Analytics
Every resource logs to a central workspace. Investigations have data.
Backup with immutability
Soft delete, immutable vaults, cross-region copies. Ransomware-resistant.
Break-glass accounts documented
Two emergency accounts, monitored, tested quarterly. Yubikeys in a safe.
Compute
Four compute models. The right one for each workload.
Functions
Event-driven, sub-second, scale to zero. Pay per execution.
Best when
- APIs with variable load
- Event processing
- Scheduled jobs
- Glue code between services
Container Apps
Serverless containers with KEDA scaling. No Kubernetes to manage.
Best when
- Containerized services
- You don't want to manage nodes
- Scale to zero required
- Simple scaling policies
AKS
Full managed Kubernetes. Custom networking, service mesh, GitOps.
Best when
- Kubernetes is a requirement
- Complex microservices
- You want fleet-level control
- Multi-tenant clusters
VMs / VMSS
Specific instance types, licensing, or high-utilization workloads.
Best when
- Licensed software (Oracle, SAP)
- GPU or specific hardware
- Steady-state high utilization
- Custom images and deep tuning
Observability
You can't operate what you can't see.
Azure Monitor
Metrics, logs, alerts across every resource. The baseline for all workloads.
Application Insights
APM with distributed tracing. Latency breakdowns across services and dependencies.
Log Analytics
KQL queries across all resources. The query language is a superpower once learned.
Workbooks
Interactive dashboards. Parameterized reports shared across teams.
Alerts + Action Groups
Route to Teams, PagerDuty, webhooks, Logic Apps. Multi-tier escalation.
Availability Tests
Synthetics from multiple regions. Catches regional outages before users do.
Infrastructure as code
Bicep vs Terraform vs ARM vs Pulumi.
We use all four. The right one depends on your multi-cloud needs, your team, and how much you value real code over config.
Bicep
DefaultLanguage
Bicep (DSL)
Pros
Clean syntax, Azure-native, day-one service support
Cons
Azure-only
Terraform
Language
HCL
Pros
Multi-cloud, huge community, mature ecosystem
Cons
State management is a job in itself
ARM Templates
Language
JSON
Pros
Azure-native, service-consistent, zero drift
Cons
Verbose, hard to read, legacy
Pulumi
Language
TS, Python, Go, .NET
Pros
Real code, multi-cloud, modern tooling
Cons
Smaller community than Terraform
Azure OpenAI · AI Foundry
AI without building the platform.
Azure OpenAI gives you GPT-4, o1, DALL-E, and Whisper as managed APIs. AI Foundry gives you the tooling to build production AI systems — evaluation, prompt flow, deployment.
Azure OpenAI
GPT-4, o1, DALL-E, Whisper via managed API. Content filtering and abuse monitoring built in.
AI Foundry
Model catalog, prompt flow, evaluation, deployment. From prototype to production.
Azure AI Search
Vector + hybrid search. Integrated with OpenAI for RAG pipelines.
Document Intelligence
OCR, form parsing, invoice and receipt extraction. Prebuilt and custom models.
Content Safety
Text and image moderation. Prompt shields for jailbreak attempts.
Responsible AI
Microsoft's RAI framework baked in. Fairness, transparency, accountability.
Compliance
Frameworks we build for.
ISO 27001 / 27017 / 27018
Information security, cloud-specific, PII in cloud.
SOC 1 / 2 / 3
Service organization controls. Audit reports from Microsoft available.
HIPAA / HITRUST
Healthcare. BAA available. Clinical data handling documented.
PCI DSS
Payment card data. Network segmentation, encryption, monitoring.
FedRAMP / IL4 / IL5
US government. Azure Government regions for high-impact workloads.
GDPR / Data Residency
EU data. Region pinning via Policy, SCP-equivalents, data minimization.
Cost tooling
What we monitor to keep spend in check.
Cost Management + Billing
Cost analysis, budgets, exports. Granularity down to individual resources.
Advisor
Recommendations across cost, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence.
Reservations & Savings Plans
Commitment management. Recommendations based on actual usage patterns.
Anomaly alerts
ML-based spend detection. Notifies on unexpected cost changes within hours.
Tags for chargeback
Cost attribution by team, product, environment. Monthly reports per owner.
Hybrid Benefit calculator
Estimate savings from bringing existing Windows and SQL licenses.
Hybrid cloud
Azure's unique strength over AWS and GCP.
Most Azure clients run hybrid — on-prem AD, on-prem data, cloud-first strategy. Azure is built for that reality.
Azure Arc
Manage on-prem, AWS, and GCP resources from Azure. One control plane.
ExpressRoute
Private dedicated connectivity. No internet exposure. Predictable latency.
Azure Stack Hub / HCI
Azure services on-prem. Consistent tooling, offline or sovereign scenarios.
Azure File Sync
Cloud tier for on-prem file servers. Local caching, cloud backup.
Windows Admin Center
Hybrid management for Windows Server fleets. Browser-based, extensible.
Entra ID Connect
Sync on-prem AD to Entra ID. Password hash sync or pass-through auth.
Honest comparison
Azure vs AWS vs GCP vs Cloudflare.
We build on all of them. The right choice depends on your team, workload type, and where your gravity already sits.
Azure
DefaultType
Microsoft-first, hybrid, compliance
Best when
Identity, hybrid, enterprise
Signals
- Microsoft 365 / Entra ID org
- .NET-first team
- Enterprise Agreement in place
- Hybrid with on-prem AD
- Microsoft compliance needs
AWS
Type
Broadest service catalog
Best when
Breadth, depth, ecosystem
Signals
- Broadest service selection
- Largest talent pool
- Complex enterprise requirements
- Compliance certifications everywhere
- Most 3rd-party integrations
GCP
Type
Data & ML strength
Best when
BigQuery, Vertex AI, GKE
Signals
- Analytics-first workloads
- ML/AI is the core product
- Kubernetes-native architecture
- Google-grade networking
- BigQuery is your warehouse
Cloudflare
Type
Edge-first
Best when
CDN, Workers, DDoS
Signals
- Edge compute is the primary need
- Global CDN performance matters most
- Simple, fast serverless
- DDoS is a top concern
- Cost predictability matters
Real-world use
Where we deploy Azure.
Government & Public Sector
Sovereign cloud, audit-ready, GCC-aligned. Compliance evidence built in.
Banking & Financial Services
DORA, PSD2, strong customer auth. Identity governance at scale.
Healthcare
HIPAA-aligned environments. Clinical data controls, FHIR APIs, consent.
Insurance
Policy, claims, underwriting. Strict access control, audit trails.
Manufacturing
IoT Hub, Digital Twins, Edge. Integration with ERP and supply chain.
Enterprise internal
Landing zones, Entra ID, hybrid. Multi-subscription architecture.
Anti-patterns
What we never find in a well-run tenant.
Standing owner at subscription scope
The most common misconfiguration. PIM + just-in-time, always.
No MFA on admin accounts
Every admin, every sign-in. Hardware keys where possible.
Service principals with static secrets
Long-lived client secrets leak. Managed identities and workload federation instead.
Single subscription for everything
One breach compromises prod. Subscriptions are security boundaries.
No Azure Policy
Config drift unchecked. Public storage, unapproved regions, wrong SKUs.
Public storage accounts
Almost always accidental. Block public access by default.
No budget alerts
Discovering a five-figure month on your invoice. Anomaly detection catches it in hours.
Untested backups
A backup that hasn't been restored isn't a backup. Test quarterly.
Certifications
The badges our engineers carry.
The process
Five phases. Every Azure engagement follows them.
Discovery
Subscription inventory, workload assessment, compliance scope, existing identity. Map before change.
Deliverables
Subscription map · Workload inventory · Compliance scope · Fixed quote
Design
Landing zone architecture, network design, identity model, cost estimate. Documented decisions.
Deliverables
Landing zone design · Network diagram · Identity model · Cost model
Build
Bicep or Terraform. CI/CD pipelines. Azure Policy. Monitoring from day one. Immutable infrastructure.
Deliverables
IaC repos · CI/CD pipelines · Policies · Runbooks
Optimize
Reservations, Hybrid Benefit, autoscale, right-sizing. Measured against baseline.
Deliverables
Cost report · Optimization roadmap · Savings tracking
Support
24/7 monitoring, incident response, quarterly Well-Architected reviews, cost reviews.
Deliverables
On-call rotation · SLA · Quarterly reviews · Roadmap
Timelines
How long a migration takes.
Single workload
4–6 wk
- Lift-and-shift one application
- Basic observability
- Cost baseline established
- Minimal rework
Multi-workload
3–4 mo
- Multiple apps replatformed
- Landing zone foundation
- Centralized logging & security
- Cost optimization pass
Enterprise
6–12 mo
- Full portfolio assessment
- Management groups + subscriptions
- Compliance alignment
- Phased wave migration
Selected work
Azure in production.
Landing zone for 20 subscriptions
Built a multi-subscription landing zone for a public sector agency. Azure Policy, Entra ID, centralized logging. Audit-ready from day one.
Outcome
20 subscriptions
Cost reduction + compliance alignment
Reserved instances, Hybrid Benefit, and architecture review cut a bank's annual Azure spend by 30% without affecting compliance posture.
Outcome
30% saved
HIPAA-aligned data platform
Migrated clinical data workloads to Azure with HIPAA-compliant architecture. Private endpoints, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud.
Outcome
HIPAA-aligned
Client feedback
What our clients
actually say.
“The move to SikaNet CBS was a bigger shift than I expected — but the right one. Before, our Susu collectors were on paper and every BOG report took us days to assemble. Now collections appear in the office before a collector even finishes their route, and the reports are just there. The team understood our business from day one.”
David Awuni
Founder, Adwumapa Microfinance
“We were cautious about moving patient records online. The on-prem approach changed that — everything stays inside the health center, nothing goes to a foreign cloud. Our clinicians now retrieve a file in seconds instead of ten minutes, and every entry has an audit trail behind it.”
Medical Director
Sekyedumase Health Center
“The patient management system they developed has streamlined our ophthalmology department. Appointment scheduling, patient records, and referral tracking are now seamless — saving us hours of administrative work every day.”
Isaac Adu
Ophthalmologist, Ghana Health Service
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