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<span class="c-contact-panel__contact-details-link-text">cloud@jisc.ac.uk</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  <div class="row break-contact-panel article-full"> <div class="article-full__body"> <div class="product-service-body col span-9"> <div class="field field-type-text-long"> <p>In research and education, cloud technologies are a key enabler for digital change – making it easier and more flexible to manage a range of digital projects, from essential business services to data analytics to high-performance computing.</p><p>But integrating the cloud into your vision can bring a wide range of strategic and practical challenges – from making the business case to managing security concerns to designing an effective cloud migration.</p><p>To help you solve your specific challenges, we offer a bespoke cloud consultancy service, helping make you better equipped to use the cloud to meet your digital goals.</p><p>Our certified cloud experts offer tailored advice and support, specifically targeted to your needs, and grounded in our experience as a not-for-profit organisation serving the research and education sector.</p><h2>How our consultancy service benefits you</h2><p>This service is designed to help you:</p><h3>Make cloud part of your wider digital vision</h3><p>To help you transform and meet wider goals, we help you define your cloud strategy and create roadmaps to put that strategy into practice.</p><p>Of course, this isn’t something IT can do alone. So we offer workshops for key stakeholders – helping people in the wider organisation understand how cloud technologies help achieve their objectives.</p><h3>Become more agile</h3><p>A key benefit of the cloud is the chance to become more agile as an organisation – managing smaller projects in a more flexible way.</p><p>We can help you plan for the effect of this cultural change, designing workflows to fit your cloud-first vision.</p><h3>Select the right platforms</h3><p>Choosing the right platforms and vendors is a key part of implementing any cloud strategy.</p><p>At Jisc, we offer <a href="/web/20221006193024/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/cloud">vendor-agnostic purchasing frameworks</a> to help you find the best partners to meet your goals; and we work together with platforms and suppliers on specific solutions, creating an ecosystem of partners from which to choose.</p><h3>Make the financial case for the cloud</h3><p>Cloud solutions offer the chance to reduce capital expenditure and the associated business risk, but it requires planning to realise the benefits.</p><p>To help you understand the full costs and benefits to you, we recommend a financial assessment such as our <a href="/web/20221006193024/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/financial-x-ray">financial X-ray</a> as part of your consultancy service.</p><h3>Solve practical, technical challenges</h3><p>We can offer consultancy on a wide range of specific technical challenges, including:</p><ul><li>Designing a cloud-first architecture</li><li>Assessing your readiness for cloud migration</li><li>Developing roadmaps and timetables for cloud migration, depending on your current readiness</li><li>Helping to implement a wide range of cloud projects</li></ul><h3>Develop your in-house skills</h3><p>In IT and service delivery teams, it’s important to develop the in-house capability to manage cloud resources going forward.</p><p>So we work with leading vendors and providers to help you offer continuing professional development. These services may include:</p><ul><li>Training and seminars, online and in person</li><li>Skills transfer during cloud adoption and migration projects</li></ul><h3>Stay secure</h3><p>We offer security-focused reviews:</p><ul><li><strong>Cloud security review</strong> - By auditing cloud platforms, we can determine if platforms have been deployed in line with platform vendor best practice and CIS benchmarking. This is a service which can run alongside penetration tests.</li><li><strong>Microsoft 365 security review</strong> - For Microsoft 365, we offer advice and guidance as a trusted partner, to ensure your Microsoft Office 365 tenant adheres to Microsoft’s best practice and principles.</li></ul><h2>How the service works</h2><p>Jisc cloud consultancy is a bespoke service. After an initial, free-of-charge meeting to understand your needs – either face-to-face or as a call – we will write a proposal with defined deliverables for you to approve.</p><p>When we provide strategic consultancy, this will take the form of workshop days followed by a report with recommendations. We can design other forms of consultancy on a bespoke basis.</p><section class="is-collapsible is-collapsible--blue user-created "><h3 class="cx_collapsibles__trigger"><a id="steps" name="steps"></a>Six key steps to the cloud</h3><div class="cx_collapsibles__target"><p>Our <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006193024/https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7301/1/making-your-transformation-a-reality.pdf">step-by-step guide to making your cloud vision a reality (pdf)</a> shows you how the key steps works in practice and how our consultancy team can help you. These steps are:</p><ul><li><strong>Strategy </strong>– understanding your vision and setting objectives</li><li><strong>Discovery </strong>– looking at stakeholders, technologies and operating costs</li><li><strong>Approach </strong>– creating a roadmap to the cloud</li><li><strong>Plan</strong> - designing your specific project plan</li><li><strong>Implement</strong> – building, deploying, testing and reviewing your plan</li><li><strong>Optimise</strong> - identifying new areas for innovation</li></ul><p> <figure class="media media-element file-default"> <div class="media__inner"> <img data-delta="3" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006193024im_/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/six_steps_to_the_cloud_infographic.jpg" alt="" title=""/> <div class="media__attribution"> <div class="media__attribution__title"> <span class="ico ico-i">Creative Commons attribution information</span> </div> <div about="" class="media__attribution__info"> <div 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you're taking on new responsibilities, or your organisation has embarked on significant changes to develop a cloud strategy or plan your infrastructure, you may need an expert friend and mentor to help you achieve your project goals.</p><p>Retained cloud expertise is a pre-paid purchase of cloud consultancy, professional services and engineering resources, which can be called off within a 12-month time frame.</p><h4>How we can help</h4><ul><li>Support you to ask the right questions and explain the complexities</li><li>Enable you to sharpen up your project plans and manage changes</li><li>Allow you to keep ownership of your project and develop skills and abilities to take you to the next stage in your organisation</li><li>Support your projects - moving to the cloud, or further adopting cloud technologies to achieve your operational goals<br/> </li></ul><p><a href="/web/20221006193024/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/contact/your-account-manager">Contact your relationship manager</a> or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006193024/https://cloud.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2021/08/18/cloud-retained-expertise/">find out more</a>.</p></div></section><h2>Find out more</h2><p>To find out more about this or our other consultancy services, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006193024/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/contact/your-account-manager" target="_blank">contact your relationship manager</a>.</p><h2>ISO certification</h2><p>This service is included within the scope of our ISO9001 and ISO27001 certificates.</p><p><a href="/web/20221006193024/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/about/certification">Read more about International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards and view Jisc certificates</a>.</p><p> <figure class="media media-element media--left file-default"> <div class="media__inner"> <img alt="ISO9001 with UK National Accreditation" style="font-size: 13.008px;" data-delta="5" typeof="foaf:Image" 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