Migration to Azure Assessment

Create a Clear Roadmap for Your Move to Azure

Migrating to Microsoft Azure is about more than moving workloads from one platform to another. Success depends on understanding your current landscape, identifying dependencies and risks, and creating a migration strategy that supports your business goals.

Our Azure Migration Assessment helps organizations evaluate their current infrastructure, applications, and operating model to determine the most effective path to Azure. The result is a practical roadmap that reduces risk, accelerates adoption, and provides clarity on the steps ahead.

Ideal for: Organizations running workloads in on-premises datacenters, private cloud environments, or other public cloud platforms that are considering a move to Microsoft Azure.


Why Perform an Azure Migration Assessment?

Many organizations understand the benefits of Azure but struggle to answer critical questions before they begin:

• Which workloads should be migrated first?
• What dependencies and risks need to be addressed?
• What Azure foundation is required to support future growth?
• How should governance, security, and operations be organized?
• What will the migration journey look like?
• How can we minimize disruption to the business?

Our assessment provides the insight needed to make informed decisions before investing in migration activities.

What You'll Gain

Actionable Migration Roadmap

A practical roadmap outlining the recommended migration approach, prerequisites, urgent mitigations, and indicative timelines.

Workload Portfolio Overview

A clear understanding of your application and infrastructure landscape, including migration candidates, dependencies, and complexity.

Azure Readiness Insights

Recommendations on the organizational, operational, and technical capabilities required to successfully adopt Azure.

Platform Strategy Guidance

Advice on whether a standard Azure platform, a custom Landing Zone, or the Xebia Platform Landing Zone is the right foundation for your cloud journey.

Common Business Challenges

Datacenter Exit Initiatives

Owned or leased datacenters are approaching end-of-life or contract renewal, creating pressure to modernize.

Complex Cloud Landscapes

Infrastructure and applications have grown over time and become increasingly difficult to manage, govern, and scale.

Rising Infrastructure Costs

Organizations need greater visibility and control over operational and infrastructure spending.

Vendor Complexity

A fragmented vendor landscape makes ownership, governance, and accountability difficult.

Lack of Cloud Strategy

Teams know they need to move to Azure but lack a clear plan and understanding of the effort involved.


Ideal for organizations that are: 

Who Is This Assessment For? 

Running workloads in owned or leased datacenters

Operating private cloud environments

Using other public cloud providers

Planning a partial or complete migration to Microsoft Azure

Looking to modernize infrastructure and operations

Evaluating cloud migration as part of a broader transformation initiative


How the Assessment Works 

1. Discover 

We build a clear picture of your current environment and business objectives.

Activities include: 
• Workload portfolio assessment
• Infrastructure and environment discovery
• Stakeholder interviews
• Goal and expectation workshops 


Deliverables 

Current State Overview

A summary of your existing infrastructure, workloads, dependencies, and operating model.

Migration Readiness Assessment

An evaluation of workload suitability, technical constraints, organizational readiness, and migration complexity.

Future-State Recommendations

Guidance on your target Azure platform, governance model, security controls, and operational approach.

Migration Roadmap

A prioritized roadmap containing:
• Migration prerequisites
• Urgent mitigations
• Recommended activities
• Indicative timelines
• Key dependencies and risks

Your Azure Journey

Why Xebia?

Moving to Azure is not just a technology project. It requires the right balance of platform engineering, governance, security, operations, and organizational change.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, Xebia helps organizations design, build, migrate, and operate cloud platforms at scale. Our teams combine deep Azure expertise with practical experience in Landing Zones, workload modernization, platform engineering, and managed services.

Whether your next step is building a new Landing Zone, migrating workloads, modernizing applications, or adopting Managed Services, we help you make informed decisions and accelerate delivery with confidence.

Start Your Azure Migration with Confidence

Gain clarity on your current landscape, understand your migration options, and receive a practical roadmap for adopting Azure successfully.

Talk to our Azure experts about an Azure Migration Assessment.


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