Lift-and-shift gets applications out of the data centre and onto the AWS cloud. It's a necessary first step, but on its own, it simply relocates today's technical debt into a new environment.
Turn your AWS cloud investment into measurable business value
You've already invested in AWS. We help you go beyond the move to the cloud, reducing technical debt, optimising costs and building the foundations to get more value from it.
Better productivity
starts with technology
Technology experience has become a measurable driver of productivity, employee engagement, retention and customer outcomes. Technology friction acts as a hidden productivity tax.
It accumulates through slow devices, application issues, access challenges, fragmented support and unresolved incidents, quietly reducing efficiency and increasing operational cost.
Modern Digital Workplace helps remove this friction by creating a secure, responsive and measurable experience across users, devices, applications and support services. Employees receive the reliable tools and effective support they need to do their best work. Leaders gain clearer visibility into experience, performance, support demand and risk, helping them target improvement where it will have the greatest impact.
Most AWS journeys stall before the real value starts
Financial services institutions, retailers, telecommunications companies and other enterprises have been building on AWS for years. Board-level pressure to show for it keeps mounting: faster speed to market, better return on technology investment, more room to innovate, and measurable value from AI and automation.
Yet most of these programmes aren’t accelerating fast enough to realise it. Legacy systems still hold back agility, the transformation pathway is more complex than expected, and cloud spend keeps climbing instead of coming down. The workloads reached AWS. The value they were meant to unlock hasn’t followed.
Where the real gains are created
This is where the gains are actually created, not in the move itself, but in the work that follows: deciding application by application what to retire, re-host, refactor or rebuild, based on what the business genuinely needs.
Simplifying and right-sizing the estate is what lowers cost and lifts agility, not the migration. This is the stage most partners skip, and it's where your lasting competitive advantage is won.
Migration is the start, not the finish
We start with the business outcomes you need: agility, resilience, richer digital experiences and the foundations for AI.
We understand the technology you have, which workloads are ready to move, which need rework, and where the business value justifies the complexity, risk and investment.
From there, we work application by application, determining what to retire, re-host, refactor or rebuild based on what the business needs.
We then simplify and right-size the estate to reduce cost and strengthen resilience. That same work builds the modern applications, trusted data platforms and scalable cloud foundations your business needs before AI, analytics and automation can move from pilot to production.
For 30 years, our 300+ engineers have built and run enterprise platforms in production, including CRM and billing systems serving 60 million users at 99.98% uptime.
We combine that depth with AWS-certified modernisation expertise and modern software engineering, and through the Altron Group, we bring networks, data centres, security and managed services together under one accountable partner.
Efficiency gains and competitive advantage
Legacy constraints don't just add cost, they slow you down. Every month spent maintaining instead of innovating is a month a more agile competitor spends shipping new products and capturing customers you could have reached first.
Modernisation changes that equation.
Lift-and-shift gets applications out of the data centre and onto the AWS cloud. It's a necessary first step, but on its own, it simply relocates today's technical debt into a new environment.
Automated monitoring, patch management and scaling cut infrastructure management effort by 30-50%, deployment cycles move from weeks to hours, and systems hold 99.9%+ availability.
Faster delivery
New capabilities reach your customers in days rather than quarters, freeing your teams to compete on what you build rather than what you maintain.
Unlocked cloud funding and partner value.
AWS funding and our cloud expertise can reduce upfront barriers to modernisation, helping organisations accelerate transformation, realise value sooner and improve return on technology investment, delivered through AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding, including MAP Lite for smaller projects.
Proof in the numbers
Lower upfront project costs through AWS funding
Measurable ROI within the first year of adoptionWhere this has already worked
Case study
We migrated 550TB of a large South African telco’s sensitive law-enforcement data to AWS in six months while maintaining mandated retention and strict service levels, and therefore gave them a platform ready to optimise rather than just relocated.
Continuity and compliance, protected by design.
Transformation only creates value if the business keeps running throughout it. We protect availability and business continuity at every step, managing dependencies carefully and maintaining rigorous quality standards so critical systems stay up, compliant and in control while you modernise.
Regulated data raises the stakes further, and we've run regulated, high-volume data workloads on AWS at scale. Our AWS Glue service delivery designation backs our data engineering depth.
AWS credentials
AWS-certified across migration and modernisation, so every stage of your journey is covered by proven capability.