/ Microsoft Azure
Azure for the company that already runs Microsoft
ACI Infotech is a Microsoft Solutions Partner. We build Azure landing zones with identity through Entra ID, migrate workloads in waves with Azure Migrate, and stand up analytics on Microsoft Fabric and Synapse. The same team wires Azure OpenAI and Power Platform into the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics estate your business already runs on.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner
- 200+ cloud migrations
- Fabric and Synapse
- ISO 27001
200+ cloud migrations
Delivered across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Identity first
Identity, guardrails, workloads.
In that order.
Start with identity, add the landing zone and policy guardrails, then bring the workloads. Done in that order, every subscription has an owner, the audit reads clean, and each wave after the first lands faster.
90dFrom prototype to production
Azure Data Lake, Databricks, AKS, and Synapse connected into one governed foundation for a global financial services firm.
Read the case study
/ What we do on Azure
One tenant. Six disciplines.
01
Landing zones and migration
Identity through Entra ID, network topology, policy guardrails, and cost management built before any workload arrives. Then Azure Migrate moves the estate in waves, with the retire list settled first.
Azure MigrateMicrosoft Entra IDAzure PolicyTerraform
Microsoft Entra ID
Terraform02
Microsoft Fabric and Synapse
New analytics builds land on Fabric, where Microsoft is investing: OneLake, warehousing, and Power BI in one platform. Existing Synapse estates keep running, and we map the move to Fabric only when it saves money or effort.
Microsoft FabricOneLakeAzure SynapsePower BI
03
Data integration
ETL and ELT on Data Factory across cloud and on-prem sources, with SSIS packages migrated instead of rewritten from memory. CI/CD is wired in from the first pipeline, so releases are repeatable.
Azure Data FactorySSIS migrationAzure DevOps
04
Azure AI
Azure OpenAI against your own documents and data, inside the tenant controls you already manage. Azure ML carries the models that need training, and everything inherits Entra ID access instead of a parallel permission system.
Azure OpenAIAzure MLCognitive Services
05
Power Platform
Dashboards in Power BI, internal apps in Power Apps, and workflow in Power Automate, with governance set so citizen development does not turn into shadow IT. Dataverse keeps the data where admins can see it.
Power BIPower AppsPower AutomateDataverse
06
Azure DevOps and operations
Pipelines, infrastructure as code, and release management on Azure DevOps, then 24/7 managed operations under SLAs once the estate is live. The people who built the landing zone stay on the console.
Azure PipelinesAKSTerraform24/7 NOC
Is Azure the right call?
Usually, when the company already runs on Microsoft. Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Dynamics, and existing agreements pull the answer toward Azure, and Azure Hybrid Benefit often covers more of the run cost than teams expect. When there is no Microsoft gravity, another cloud can be the shorter road, and we will say so before you commit. We migrate to all three majors.
Identity, licensing, and desktops already on Microsoft
Analytics on Fabric feeding Power BI
A hybrid estate with on-prem Active Directory and SQL Server
Azure OpenAI inside the tenant controls you already manage
A different road
A greenfield build with no Microsoft footprint
Data science gravity around BigQuery or SageMaker
When the second column wins, it is usually AWS or Google Cloud. Both have pages of their own, and the full comparison lives on our cloud modernization page.
/ Results
Azure work that reached production.
Global Financial Services Firm
90dFrom prototype to production
Azure Data Lake, Databricks, AKS, and Synapse connected into one governed foundation for analytics and machine learning.
Read the Azure Lakehouse story
Global Food Services Operator
22%Faster decisions
One governed data platform for 400,000 employees across 53 countries, replacing dozens of regional reporting stacks.
Read the story
Enterprise Technology Company
99.97%Uptime across 72+ servers
Automated DevOps pipelines and monitoring across an enterprise server estate, run as a managed operation.
Read the operations story/ How an engagement runs
Five phases. No surprises.
01
Assess
Azure Migrate scans the estate for a per-workload estimate and a retire list. Existing Microsoft agreements and Azure Hybrid Benefit go into the math from the start.
02
Land
The landing zone first: Entra ID, network topology, policy guardrails, and cost management before a single workload moves.
03
Migrate
Waves, with the hairiest dependencies scheduled last. A single application lands in weeks; a full estate move typically runs 6 to 12 months.
04
Prove
Nothing cuts over until it has passed testing in the target subscription and the owners have signed off. The old environment retires on evidence, not optimism.
05
Run
Around-the-clock operations under SLA with our managed team, or a clean handover to yours with runbooks that hold up during an incident.
The landing zone is the start, not the finish.
Azure pays off when the applications, data, and operations on top of it are modernized with the same care as the foundation. That is our cloud modernization practice, from the first assessment to the managed run.
Cloud Modernization/ Why ACI
Why enterprises run Azure with us
/ Partnership
Microsoft Solutions Partner.
200+ cloud migrations delivered across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
/ Delivery
One team across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics, and Power Platform.
The estate gets designed as a whole, not one product at a time.
/ Scale
Founded 2006.
1,200+ engineers across 11 global delivery hubs. 500+ enterprise projects.
/ Operations
ISO 27001 certified and CMMI Level 3 appraised, with 24/7 managed operations under published SLAs.
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Read/ Azure FAQ
Azure questions,
answered straight.
What does an Azure migration cost?
The drivers are workload count, how much needs re-platforming instead of lift and shift, and data volume. We run a fixed-scope assessment with Azure Migrate first, so you get a per-workload estimate and a list of servers that should be retired rather than moved. Existing Microsoft agreements and Azure Hybrid Benefit often cover more of the run cost than teams expect.
How long does an Azure migration take?
A single application usually lands in weeks. A full estate move typically runs 6 to 12 months in waves, with the landing zone built first and the hairiest dependencies scheduled last. Nothing cuts over until it has passed testing in the target subscription.
Do we need an Azure landing zone before migrating?
Yes, and it is the first thing we build: identity through Entra ID, network topology, policy guardrails, and cost management before any workload arrives. Skipping it is how estates end up with 40 subscriptions and no owner. A solid landing zone makes every wave after it faster.
Should we use Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse?
For new analytics builds, Microsoft Fabric is where Microsoft is investing: OneLake, warehousing, and Power BI in one SaaS platform. Existing Synapse estates still run fine, and we support both. We will map a migration path to Fabric when it saves you money or effort, and tell you to stay put when it does not.
Can you connect Azure to our Microsoft 365 and Dynamics estate?
Yes, that is usually the point of picking Azure. We wire identity through Entra ID, land Dynamics and Dataverse data in Fabric for analytics, and use Azure OpenAI against your own data with the access controls you already manage.