Azure Well-Architected Review

BDO’s Azure Well-Architected Review

As businesses continue to adopt Azure, workload implementations can age and deviate from optimal or newly recommended configurations. This applies to both individual workloads and the broader platform, including emerging architectural & compliance standards. The continuous evolution of the Azure product portfolio and general availability of new products, along with sector-specific architectural standards, further compounds concerns for IT leaders.

BDO Digital has the technical and sector-specific expertise to conduct Azure Well-Architected Reviews, ensuring success as your Azure environment continues to grow & mature. These reviews provide you with the insights needed to confidently optimize your Azure estate now and into the future. BDO Digital is a certified Azure Expert Managed Service Provider and is ready to partner with you throughout your digital transformation journey.

Azure Well-Architected Review Business Cases

BDO Digital’s diversity of expertise enables organizations all around the world to gain valuable insights into their technology solutions & Azure implementations. BDO’s architects will help you review your workloads and implementations through the lenses of cost management, security, performance, reliability, and operations.

Examples of how your business could leverage BDO’s Well-Architected Reviews include:

• Review workloads and implementations powered by PaaS technologies like Web Applications & Azure VMWare Solution are ready to scale
• Ensure infrastructure services like networking, multi-factor authentication, backup, and business continuity are setup according to recommended practices
• Examine data services like Fabric & Azure SQL for reliability, performance, and geo-redundancy
• Assess Azure Virtual Desktop pools for performance and cost efficiency
• Review your organization’s Azure consumption and get recommendations for cost savings
• Assess Power Platform workflows for user experience & cost efficiency

Steps for a Successful Azure Well-Architected Review

BDO Digital’s primary goal is to provide the necessary insight for our clients to confidently optimize their Azure estate now and into the future. In addition to a findings document, a prioritized list of recommendations is produced with an implementation roadmap, tuned to your business objectives.

1. Plan & Scope – Review business goals, Identify workload targets, determine the relevant subject matter experts, and gather data from stakeholders
2. Assess - Use Microsoft tooling results to review findings thoroughly and provide practical recommendations that align with business goals
3. Rationalize – Solution Architect driven alignment of business requirements with Well-Architected Review results
4. Report - Present a detailed report of the assessment results along with a prioritized list of recommendations

Once the Azure Well-Architected Review is complete, BDO Digital can work with your organization to develop a plan to action the recommendations proposed, in a separate engagement.

Well-Architected Review Key Deliverables

Key deliverables for a Well-Architected Review includes:

• All data gathered by BDO’s delivery teams
• A comprehensive list of recommendations for in-scope reviews
• A statement of work for executing recommended remediations

Why Choose BDO Digital

Get it Right from the Start: BDO Digital’s methodology is built on years of experience helping our clients get the very best from their Azure investments. BDO Digital consistently delivers results for organizations around the world.

Broad Capabilities: Our Azure, Cybersecurity, App Modernization, and Data & AI engineers work together seamlessly, no matter where you are in your technology transformation journey. BDO Digital’s comprehensive teams cover your application migration, transformation, and optimization from end to end.

Accelerate Your Success: We help you move quickly, reduce operational costs and risks, enable innovation, and provide IT capacity at your fingertips in a very short timeframe, depending on your size and complexity. We will continue to work with you to transform and modernize your technology platform and business, positioning you for a competitive future.

Note: Remediation execution is out of scope for this review
*Pricing will vary based on the scope of the engagement

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