Nobody can see the whole estate.
Twenty years of Group Policy, applications installed for people who left in 2016, settings nobody dares touch. You cannot plan a move when you can't see what you're moving.
IT consultancy · Migration · Managed services
We make enterprise IT happen.
Specialists in Windows 10 & 11 migration & transformation application rationalisation Group Policy modernisation
Complex Windows 10 and 11 transformation programmes, planned on evidence, delivered by senior security-cleared specialists, and run properly long after go-live.
Trusted by Higher Education, Public Sector, Healthcare, Legal, Financial Services & Insurance, Transport & Automotive, Utilities, Manufacturing & Engineering and many more.
Trusted by enterprise teams, and the platforms they run on
Rolls-Royce
Slaughter and May
Norton Rose Fulbright
Freshfields
Osborne Clarke
D Young & Co
Virgin Money
Howden Group Holdings
Royal London
Canada Life
BlueCrest Capital Management
Oakley Capital
University of East London
Oxford Brookes University
Nottingham Trent University
London School of Economics
Jisc
NHS
Sunrise Medical
DHU Healthcare
Carefertility
Slimming World
Shared Technology Services
Brent Council
Southwark Council
Lewisham Council
Local Government Association
GA Trains
Northern Trains
Motability
Cadillac Racing
Southern Water
Weetabix
Futura Learning Partnership
Leigh Academies Trust
Chichester College Group
St Albans School
Softcat
Banham Security
CGI
Awaze
CSL
TMF
Generis
Jigsaw Homes
Vico
Construction Marine Limited
Microsoft Partner
AWS Partner
Google Cloud Partner
The hard truth
Most migrations don't fail. They stall.
The pattern is depressingly consistent, and it is rarely the technology's fault.
Everything gets moved “just in case”.
Without evidence of what's actually used, the safe answer is to migrate it all. So the cost, complexity and risk of the old estate simply travel with you to the new one.
Juniors learn on your estate.
Large consultancies staff long programmes with junior engineers at senior prices. The findings arrive late, the decisions arrive later, and the deadline doesn't move.
There is a better order of operations. It starts with evidence.
How we fix it
Assess. Optimise. Migrate. Run.
One disciplined sequence covers the entire lifecycle of an enterprise IT transformation, and each step earns the next.
Assess
Evidence before commitments. A structured assessment maps what you have, what's used and what's in the way, typically in five days.
Consultancy & AnalyticsOptimise
Shrink the estate before you move it. Rationalised applications, modernised infrastructure and automated access controls cut what you carry into the migration.
Optimisation & RationalisationMigrate
Windows 11, Intune, Autopilot, Exchange, OneDrive: designed, piloted and deployed in governed phases, without disrupting the business.
Migration & TransformationRun
SLA-backed patching, pre-deployment testing and hypercare keep the new estate healthy, without growing your headcount.
Managed ServicesPurpose-built tooling, not spreadsheets
Our Scout discovery tool captures your Group Policy estate: read-only, with zero network egress, flagging risks like cleartext credentials as it goes, and recording exactly what it deliberately left out, and why. Our wider discovery tooling inventories every application and policy; Meridian, our migration platform, then maps thousands of settings against Microsoft's own Settings Catalog, detects conflicts, assesses posture against CIS, NCSC and Microsoft security baselines, and deploys through staged, approval-gated releases with rollback. Every decision is journaled, so regulated clients get an audit trail, not a leap of faith. See Meridian in action.
See the method the tooling servesProven at scale
“We engaged with Make IT Happen for the Rolls-Royce Next Generation Windows Migration. Their incredibly detailed analysis helped us to reduce our Application Portfolio from over 26,000 apps down to just over 1,000.”
Proven outcomes
Results we've delivered
Real engagements, measurable impact, across aerospace, legal, healthcare, media and technology.
95%
Aerospace
Rolls-Royce's application estate cut by over 95% ahead of a Windows 10 migration for 36,000 users, avoiding £2m+ in extended-support costs.
Read the case study80%
Legal
Ongoing server-support costs cut by 80% for a global law firm through an intelligent application audit, rationalisation and migration.
Read the case study4 wks
Technology
Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams, migrated in four weeks, with user training and minimal disruption to the business.
Read the case studyHow we work
The approach is the difference
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path: a published seven-step methodology that starts by defining what success means to you, and doesn't stop at go-live.
Desired Objectives & Outcome Requirements (DooR)
We shape and refine the specific objectives and outcomes that define success, then hold delivery to them.
'As-Is' Analysis
Evidence-based insight into what's used, by whom and where, surfacing savings before anything moves.
Thought Leadership 'To-Be' Status
Senior specialists set the target state, with clear short- and long-term strategic guidance.
Governed delivery, handover & run
Steps four to seven: transparent governance, expert delivery, training-led handover, then a managed service that keeps the estate healthy.
Why us
Senior people. Sharper tooling. No surprises.
Senior specialists only
Your engagement is delivered by accredited specialists who have done this many times before, not junior resource billed at senior rates.
Security-cleared by default
Our people are cleared to operate inside government, defence, finance and healthcare environments: assurance built in, not bolted on.
Purpose-built tooling
Discovery, analysis, migration and drift detection run on tooling we built for exactly this work, with an auditable record of every decision.
Accredited, not affiliated
Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud partners: vendor-accredited, vendor-neutral, and always on your side of the table.
Latest thinking
Insights from the sharp end
Blog
Embracing Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Why imaging and on-premises tooling no longer fit how organisations work, and what modern management replaces them with.
Read the articleBlog
Group Policy: the good, the bad and the modern
Two decades of GPOs made Windows estates governable, and then ungovernable. How to take back control on the way to the cloud.
Read the articleBlog
The Modern Workplace
The cloud-managed, security-first foundation that lets your organisation keep pace, without trading away the user experience.
Read the articleGood questions
Before you ask
Who do you work with?
UK enterprises in regulated and high-assurance sectors (aerospace, finance, legal, healthcare, education and government), plus ambitious mid-market organisations facing the same problems at smaller scale. If your estate runs on Windows, Intune or Microsoft 365, it's our home ground.
How does an engagement start?
With a conversation, then a scoping call with a senior specialist. Most programmes begin with a short, fixed-scope assessment (typically five days) that gives you an evidence-based picture of your estate and a prioritised roadmap. You own the findings either way.
Do you replace our IT team, or work alongside them?
Whichever you need. We deliver as an embedded part of your team or as a complete provider, and every engagement includes knowledge transfer, so your people finish more capable, not more dependent.
How long does a Windows 11 and Intune migration actually take?
A full transformation from legacy management to a cloud-native Intune estate typically runs about six months, delivered in governed phases. Discrete pieces move faster: Autopilot has been designed and piloted in 14 days, and cross-tenant access delivered in days.
What makes you different from a big consultancy?
Three things: senior specialists only, purpose-built discovery and migration tooling, and a published methodology that defines success before anything is built. You get evidence and decisions in days, not decks in months.
Are your people security cleared?
Yes. Security-cleared, accredited specialists are our default, which is why we're trusted inside government, defence, finance and healthcare environments.
Let's make IT happen for you.
Tell us about the migration, modernisation or managed-service challenge in front of you. A senior specialist will come back within one working day: no commitment, just expertise.