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Move your professional services firm to Azure with a proven migration methodology that eliminates risk.
Every migration follows a proven framework — assess, plan, migrate, optimise — eliminating guesswork and reducing risk at every stage.
We design migration waves and cutover plans that keep your business running, with most workloads migrated outside business hours.
We do not just lift and shift. Every workload is right-sized and configured for Azure to ensure performance and cost efficiency from launch.
Cloudswitched provides cloud migration services for UK professional services. We assess your existing infrastructure, map dependencies for Microsoft 365, CRM systems, and project management tools, and execute a phased migration that minimises risk. Our methodology ensures client records, project deliverables, and billing data arrives in Azure intact, with rollback plans at every stage and full industry-specific regulations and GDPR documentation.
A clear, structured process from consultation to ongoing support.
We map your entire on-premises estate — servers, dependencies, performance profiles, and compliance requirements — to build a complete picture before designing the migration plan.
Workloads are grouped into migration waves based on complexity, dependencies, and business criticality. Each wave has its own timeline, testing plan, and rollback procedure.
After cutover, we monitor performance and costs closely, tuning configurations, right-sizing resources, and addressing any issues that emerge in the live environment.
Phased migration methodology ensures Microsoft 365, CRM systems, and project management tools and client records, project deliverables, and billing data move to Azure without disrupting day-to-day operations across your professional services firm.
Comprehensive discovery of your existing infrastructure, application dependencies, and industry-specific regulations and GDPR requirements ensures nothing is missed during planning.
Automated checksums and validation scripts confirm client records, project deliverables, and billing data arrives in Azure complete and uncorrupted, with full audit trails for industry-specific regulations and GDPR purposes.
Every migration phase includes documented rollback procedures, ensuring your professional services firm can revert to previous state if any unexpected issues arise.
Over 500 successful Azure migrations completed for UK businesses including professional services
Structured methodology with pre-migration assessment, dependency mapping, and risk analysis
industry-specific regulations and GDPR compliance maintained throughout the migration process with full documentation
Dedicated migration project manager ensuring timelines and budgets are met
Expertise migrating Microsoft 365, CRM systems, and project management tools workloads with minimal disruption to daily operations
Post-migration hypercare period with enhanced monitoring and rapid issue resolution

Timeline depends on the number of workloads and complexity of Microsoft 365, CRM systems, and project management tools integrations. Typical professional services firm migrations run between four and twelve weeks. We provide a detailed timeline during the assessment phase before any commitment.
We design migrations specifically to minimise disruption to Microsoft 365, CRM systems, and project management tools. Critical professional services firm systems are migrated during evenings or weekends, with rollback plans at every stage. Most clients experience zero perceptible downtime.
Client records, project deliverables, and billing data is transferred using encrypted connections with integrity validation at every stage. We maintain parallel environments during cutover, ensuring data is verified in Azure before decommissioning source systems.
industry-specific regulations and GDPR compliance is maintained throughout the migration. We document the chain of custody for client records, project deliverables, and billing data, configure Azure environments to meet regulatory standards before migration begins, and provide compliance evidence for auditors.
We provide a hypercare period of enhanced monitoring and rapid support following migration. This covers performance tuning, user issue resolution, and optimisation of your new Azure environment for professional services firm workloads.
Limited time offer - valid until 31/05/2026
Tell us about your current infrastructure and we will outline a migration approach tailored to your business.
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