Requirement & Readiness Assessment

New digital realities & new objectives for companies

In the shortest of timeframes, technology, data, and data use have changed the world. Whether in purchasing behavior, medicine, communication, transport, logistics, or production, new digital realities are being born all around us – and increasingly, these realities are data realities. The rapidly escalating trend is showing no signs of slowing down.

This digital shift will have an enormous impact on the economy and on companies of all sizes, in all industries.

For many companies, it’s difficult to keep up with the pace of the digital shift. Often, companies act too slowly and follow existing thought patterns that are now no longer fit for purpose.

Market challenges:

New terminology, trends, and technologies make orientation more challenging
Newcomers to the market and competitors place existing positions and positioning at risk
The new generation of customers (Digital Natives) has a brand-new and completely unique set of communi- cation and consumption behaviors

Company challenges:

Lack of expertise & trained employees
New terrain & little experience
Fear of risks & making the wrong decisions
Responsibilities not clearly defined (business or IT); complex decision-making processes (particularly in large companies) & cultural deficits within companies

A new way of thinking and acting

Most companies are driven by digitalization pressure rather than a desire to take control of their own Digital Development. They know that they need to act, but they don’t know how. Founded and formed in the analog age, it’s natural that they lack the skills, routines, and experience to put themselves on the path to successful digitalization.

External consultants can only help to a limited extent: partly because they, too, are often children of the analog age, applying the same kinds of outdated logic as the companies themselves. To compound the problem, consultants usually only look at the company top-down, from a global market and business perspective – without gaining any specific bottom-up insight or hands-on project and practical experience with the data realities that the company faces.

To complete their Digital Development journey successfully and develop an individual strategy to tackle their own specific challenges, companies need modern ways of thinking and acting – the “logic of today and tomorrow.”
We call it Data Thinking.

“Data Thinking is the first skill that a company needs to position itself as a digital leader.”

Klaas W. Bollhoefer,
Chief Data Scientist & Data Thinker.

Data thinking: A holistic approach to data and data use

Most decision-makers in companies are already familiar with targeted and value-generating data use, and understand that a move in this direction is crucial. Many companies have already populated their own data pools and may have even completed some initial pilot projects.

They may have installed a Hadoop cluster, attended conferences and training courses, or even set up a lab, completed initial proofs of concept, and commissioned or hired their first Data Scientists. But in spite of all this, most decision-makers involved in Big Data planning are still only thinking about the basics:

Data
Algorithms
Technology

These basic factors alone reach nowhere near far enough to integrate Big Data, analytics, or even just data itself into established company areas and processes. Other key factors include:
Strategy & Leadership / Organizational setup, scope to shape and make decisions, pioneer in the world of data
Skills & Roles / Skills and competence to think from a “data perspective” and newly defined responsibilities and redistribution of tasks within teams
Culture & Routines / Thinking from a “data perspective” and being open to new approaches, a modern company culture and agile working methods
Operational Model & Processes / Close collaboration between affected departments, continuous communication, defined interfaces and processes, “provisioning” rather than demand/supply
Community & Research / Networking, engagement, and time for ongoing development and exchanging experiences

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A unique approach, built to support lasting results

With 18 years of mission critical workload experience, we are known for our strong set of multi cloud competencies, helping you to achieve your business ambitions.

Basefarm is one of the first providers worldwide to offer Azure Stack to its customers – a truly consistent hybrid cloud platform. In a landscape where innovation is the only way to maintain competitive advantage, we are determined to stay at the forefront of innovative technologies driving digital transformation for businesses across varied industries.

For companies who are looking for the perfect balance between stability and innovation, the choice is simple:

Basefarm. Perfectly Balanced Cloud Solutions.

Our customer cloud journey in three steps

Step 1 Analyse

Cloud strategy:
Advisory Workshop

Step 2 Build

Consultancy, Architecture,
and Implementation

Step 3 Run

Guided, Frontline,
Platform Operations

Step 1 Analyse

Many different factors impact your cloud adoption journey. Our highly skilled consultancy team provides strategic advisory services and in-depth pre-production advice on operations and technology to support your move either to cloud or the hybrid cloud, making sure the integration is aligned with your overall business strategy.

Our team will be able to help regardless of the
cloud maturity level you are on at the moment.

Identification of cloud maturity and analysis of your current IT Architecture.

Pre-production assessment, providing advice on operations and technology.

Adoption of the best suited model, to foster innovation within your business.

Step 2 Build

Once we have assessed your current IT set up, we start focusing on the operational part of running and modernising applications platforms and future proofing your operations: from innovation to delivery (production). Helping you to leverage the full power of the Azure delivery model, Basefarm team will enable you to implement the right DevOps approach in the public cloud or across hybrid cloud environments (Azure and Azure Stack). The result: intelligent and modern infrastructure serving your client’s needs, and if required, re-engineered for the use in private cloud, developed and deployed with no code changes, while addressing all policy and latency requirements.

Utilise Azure infrastructure and services to build modern, intelligent apps that get to market faster and serve your customers better.

Access the existing app marketplace to drive innovation; develop in the cloud and deploy to on-premises through
Azure Stack if you require physical location.

Meet changing regulatory requirements by working in compliance ready set up – stay ahead of the changing regulatory landscape and avoid costly data inventory.

Step 3 Run

Your business does not stand still – and neither should your infrastructure. Once the best architecture model has been implemented, you need a set up that in an ongoing way supports your business goals and delivers the type of scale and flexibility that will foster further innovation.

Azure provides a state of the art cloud platform to run your applications and servers. Supporting the growth of your business and increasing your competitiveness, both Azure models deliver capability that ultimately improves your business performance.

Handle peaks in workload automatically, while retaining cost control during off-peak times.

Become more flexible and agile through Azure and/or Azure Stack, scaling your IT set up in line with your business growth.

Take advantage of a true hybrid infrastructure for mission critical operations that supports demanding governance requirements.

Step 1 Analyse

Taking your first steps into the (hybrid) cloud
Our cloud advisory workshops are the first step on your cloud journey. Through short and
effective workshops, Basefarm architects help you set up the basic fundamentals:

Due to our Flexible Cloud Operations Model, we participate early in the development phase with our operational expertise and best practice, so that you can move fast to production once your application is ready.

Step 2 Build

During this second step on cloud journey your business can trust our architects with:

At this phase you can also leverage Basefarm’s Platform Operations:
– Management of cloud infrastructure and mission critical applications 24/7
– Optimisation and securing of new functionalities
– Adaptable to both traditional operational models and Flexible DevOps Model, depending on your requirements

Step 3 Run

To complement the solution offered by Azure models, Basefarm’s operation teams help you run a true public or hybrid infrastructure platform for mission critical workloads that can connect to traditional IT environments of our customers:

Requirement & Readiness Assessment

New digital realities & new objectives for companies

Market challenges:

Company challenges:

A new way of thinking and acting

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A unique approach, built to support lasting results

Our customer cloud journey in three steps

Step 1 Analyse

Step 2 Build

Step 3 Run

Step 1 Analyse

Identification of cloud maturity and analysis of your current IT Architecture.

Pre-production assessment, providing advice on operations and technology.

Adoption of the best suited model, to foster innovation within your business.

Step 2 Build

Utilise Azure infrastructure and services to build modern, intelligent apps that get to market faster and serve your customers better.

Access the existing app marketplace to drive innovation; develop in the cloud and deploy to on-premises through Azure Stack if you require physical location.

Meet changing regulatory requirements by working in compliance ready set up – stay ahead of the changing regulatory landscape and avoid costly data inventory.

Step 3 Run

Handle peaks in workload automatically, while retaining cost control during off-peak times.

Become more flexible and agile through Azure and/or Azure Stack, scaling your IT set up in line with your business growth.

Take advantage of a true hybrid infrastructure for mission critical operations that supports demanding governance requirements.

Step 1 Analyse

Envision

Evaluate

Outline

Design

Step 2 Build

Consulting

Implementation

Ease of transition

DevOps Hotel

Step 3 Run

Guided operationS

Frontline operations

Platform operations

Access the existing app marketplace to drive innovation; develop in the cloud and deploy to on-premises through
Azure Stack if you require physical location.