26,000 → 1,000
Rolls-Royce
Application portfolio cut by over 95% ahead of the Next Generation Windows Migration, avoiding £2m+ in extended-support costs.
Optimisation & Rationalisation
Stop carrying yesterday's estate into tomorrow's platform
An out-of-support MECM, hundreds of apps nobody has packaged, and access processes held together by spreadsheets: every one of them makes the next project slower and riskier. These engagements fix what you already run, so what comes next starts clean.
Why it pays
Rationalisation at enterprise scale
80%
Global law firm
Ongoing server-support costs cut through intelligent audit, rationalisation and migration.
30+
Media
Applications compatibility-checked, remediated and tested in around a month: a stalled OS migration back on milestone.
The engagements
Three ways we take cost and risk out
MECM Infrastructure Upgrade & Windows Deployment
Specialist consultancy and delivery that brings an ageing MECM/SCCM estate back into support and modernises your Windows 11 Task Sequences: the essential bridge to co-management and Intune. If your MECM is 12 to 18 months behind current, this is the engagement.
What you get
- Site health assessment and review
- MECM version and server OS upgrade
- Optimised Windows 11 Task Sequences
- Co-management plan and cloud-readiness roadmap
Engagement shape: A structured 20-day consultancy window with clear outputs at each stage.
A fully supported, modern MECM environment that unblocks the path to Intune: a supported version is a prerequisite for co-management. For a UK food manufacturer we delivered the full review, CAB-approved upgrade plan, upgrades and roadmap; for a global professional-services firm we supported a Windows 10-to-11 migration across 11,000+ endpoints in 100+ locations.
Application Packaging Service
Deployment-ready, fully remediated Intune packages delivered against SLA, removing the single biggest blocker in most Intune and Autopilot projects. Source media goes in; tested, documented, silently-deploying packages come out, tracked through an online portal.
What you get
- Discovery and dependency mapping per application
- MSI/EXE/PSADT package engineering to agreed standards
- Licensed installer media analysed and packaged entirely on the engineer's machine, never uploaded or stored elsewhere
- Quality review and UAT facilitation
- Portal tracking of every request against SLA
Engagement shape: Ongoing pipeline; roughly a 3-day average turnaround per application.
Consistent, tested packages that stop deployment failures, help-desk tickets and project slippage. For a motorsport team we packaged the full application estate to .intunewin on schedule, so Autopilot could proceed; for a healthcare group we packaged clinical and corporate apps with reusable documentation.
User Access Management (UAM) Consultancy
Design, build and testing of automated access governance across three workstreams: joiners-movers-leavers lifecycle automation through Active Directory and Entra ID, a Privileged Access Management framework, and system access reviews with automated attestation, all built on Microsoft tooling your team can run.
What you get
- Automated JML lifecycle, end to end
- PAM framework designed and implemented
- Automated, auditable access reviews
- Knowledge transfer and documentation throughout
Engagement shape: Phased discovery, design, build and test, with a proof of concept before anything touches production.
Auditable, repeatable access governance that replaces manual, audit-failing processes. For a private bank we automated JML from ticket to directory, implemented a PAM framework and delivered automated access reviews, from discovery through PoC, pilot and production.
The principle
Rationalise first. Migrate once.
Moving everything you have (every app, every policy, every process) simply carries the old estate's cost and risk into the new one. Fixing foundations first means the migration that follows is smaller, faster and safer. It's the least glamorous work in IT, and the highest-return.
- Smaller estate to migrate, and to license, patch and support forever after
- Supported infrastructure, ready for co-management
- Apps that deploy silently, first time
- Access governance that passes its next audit
Fair challenges
What clients ask before optimising
Our SCCM still works. Why touch it?
“Works” and “supported” part company quickly, and an out-of-support MECM blocks co-management, which blocks Intune. Upgrading now, on your schedule, beats upgrading mid-incident on Microsoft's.
Why outsource packaging instead of hiring?
Packaging demand is spiky: a migration needs hundreds of packages this quarter and a trickle after. An SLA-backed pipeline gives you senior packaging engineers exactly when you need them, and our five-day training programme can build your internal capability for the steady state.
Our joiners-and-leavers process is too messy to automate.
Messy processes are why we start with discovery and a proof of concept, not a big-bang build. We map what actually happens, design the target workflow, and prove it works before production. The messiest processes gain the most.
Will hardening and upgrades break things our business depends on?
Everything we change is assessed, staged and tested first: task sequences validated like-for-like, packages through UAT, access workflows through pilot. Controlled change is the whole point of the engagement.
How much are you carrying that you don't need?
A scoping call with a senior specialist will tell you where the quickest savings sit in your estate, usually within the first half hour.