Azure migration, data engineering
Move to Azure without betting the quarter on it.
Azure and Microsoft 365 migrations for finance and retail companies with 15 to 500 employees — assessed first, so you see the cost, the risks and the cutover plan before anything moves.
Book an assessment call30 minuteswith an engineer who would scope the work, not a sales qualifier[PLACEHOLDER: written-summary turnaround, not yet committed]
The situation you are actually in
If you run a finance business
The reporting everything depends on sits on a SQL Server that went out of Microsoft support on 14 July 2026, and nobody wants to be the person who touches it.
- Your disaster recovery plan exists as a document. It has not been tested end to end, and you know roughly when it was last opened.
- Auditors and your larger clients now ask where data lives, who can reach it, and how access is removed the day someone leaves. Assembling honest answers takes a week and three people.
- Month-end close depends on one person, two spreadsheets and a query nobody else has read.
If you run a retail business
- Peak season is the worst possible time to discover what your infrastructure cannot do, and it is usually when you discover it.
- Point of sale, e-commerce, inventory and finance each hold a version of the truth. None of them agree, and reconciling them is somebody's whole week.
- A datacenter, hosting or hardware contract is expiring. The renewal quote is the reason this project exists.
- Your card processor's security questionnaire asks about segmentation, patching and access review, and answering it accurately is uncomfortable.
Either way, you are not looking for a digital transformation. You are looking for someone to tell you what the move costs, what breaks, how long the business is down, and who is accountable when it is 2 a.m. on cutover night.
What changes
A number you can put in a budget.
The assessment ends with a costed migration plan: what moves, in what order, what it costs to run in Azure each month, and what the one-time migration effort is. Estimates come with their assumptions written down, so when reality moves, you can see which assumption moved.
A cutover you can schedule.
Every workload gets a migration method, a rehearsal, a downtime window and a rollback. You approve the window. We do not discover the downtime during the downtime.
Access you can prove.
Least-privilege, time-bound access by named individuals. No shared logins, no standing global admin, and an offboarding step that actually runs. When your auditor asks who could reach production last quarter, the answer is a report, not a recollection.
A system your own team can run.
We hand over documentation, infrastructure defined as code in your repository, and a runbook — then we sit alongside your team through the first month. If you never call us again, that is a successful outcome, not a failed account plan.
What we do
Azure & Microsoft Migration
Move servers, SQL Server databases, file shares and Microsoft 365 into Azure — assessed first, migrated in waves, with a tested rollback at every step. This is the work we lead with.
Data Engineering & Analytics
One set of numbers everyone agrees on. Warehouse modelling, pipelines, and Power BI or Tableau reporting that closes the month faster than the spreadsheet it replaces.
Automation & Integration
Connect the systems that do not talk, and retire the manual re-keying between them. Power Platform, APIs and integration work sized to pay for itself.
Custom Software & Data Products
When the off-the-shelf answer does not exist, we build and hand over the one that does — in your repository, under your license, documented for the team that inherits it.
We run on what we sell
claims we do not makethe four listed below
this pagebuild facts in the footer[PLACEHOLDER: CI Lighthouse scores]
after-numberdue[PLACEHOLDER: post-remediation score and date]
Most firms in this market ask you to trust a slide. We would rather you check something.
This website is the proof of the first claim.The page you are reading is a static site built from Markdown in a Git repository, deployed to Azure Static Web Apps by a GitHub Actionspipeline. Every change is a reviewed commit. There is no CMS to patch and no server to own. It is a small version of the delivery model we would set up for you, and you are looking at it.
We ran our own Microsoft 365 tenant through the assessment we sell.Before recommending a tenant review to anyone else, we ran one on ourselves — the full identity, licensing, sharing, device and email-authentication review. It found real problems in our own tenant, which is what an honest assessment does.
secure score, baseline
52.1 / 64
Internal Secure Score review, 90 days of history
Remediation is underway now. When it is finished we will publish the after-number, the list of what changed, and what it cost us in time — including anything we decided not to fix and why. The baseline, the method and the open items are written up atMicrosoft 365 tenant hardening. We are not publishing the open finding list while it is still open: a public list of unremediated gaps in a live tenant is an attack map, not a trust signal.
Evidence, not adjectives.
Most of our delivery history sits inside client tenants, under agreements that do not permit us to describe it. We are not going to convert that into a project counter on a homepage. So here is the honest split:
What we can show you today
- Microsoft 365 and Entra ID administration — a multi-domain, multi-brand tenant we have run in production since 2024
- This site, its Azure hosting and its deployment pipeline, live and inspectable
- Our own working practice: version control, code review, infrastructure as code, documented handover
What is client-supplied or in progress
- Named client case studies, with the client's written permission
- The before/after tenant hardening study, on completion
- Microsoft Partner status and any competency badges — none displayed until confirmed
The honest split above lives permanently at /case-studies/, updated as each line moves from the right column to the left.
What we will not do: publish a project count we cannot evidence, display a partner badge we have not earned, put a logo on this site without written permission, or claim a certification nobody on the team holds. If a competitor's homepage shows all four, ask them for the underlying list.
More about how we work, who we are and how we handle your data
How it starts
A call. 30 minutes, with an engineer. You describe the estate and the deadline driving it. We tell you whether this is work we should be doing.
A scoped assessment. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed end date. Read-only access to your environment — we change nothing during an assessment.
A decision you can make. You receive the findings, the costed plan and the risks. It is a standalone deliverable. If you take it to another firm to execute, it still works.
Who this is for
Built for
- Finance or retail companies with 15 to 500 employees
- Teams that want the cost, the risk and the cutover plan written down before anything moves
- Migrations off on-premises servers, SQL Server or Microsoft 365 into Azure
- Teams that would rather have one reliable number than four disagreeing systems
Not a fit
- Fewer than 15 or more than 500 employees — outside the band this practice is built around
- Industries outside finance and retail
- Looking for the cheapest possible bid rather than a documented, fixed-scope plan
- Need an on-site, in-person team rather than same-timezone remote delivery
Who we are, briefly
entityAutomated Solutions LLC[PLACEHOLDER: DBA filing, state and address]
AS DataWorks is the data and Azure practice of Automated Solutions LLC. Our engineering team of roughly 15 people — employees and long-term partners — delivers from Costa Rica, in US business hours, under a US entity and US contracts.
We state that plainly because you are going to find out anyway, and because for most of our clients it is a reason to work with us rather than a reason not to: same-timezone delivery, no overnight handoffs, and a rate that funds senior people on your project instead of junior ones.
Entity, jurisdiction and the registered address are set out onabout, including what is still pending.
You do not have to decide about Azure today. You have to decide whether it is worth finding out what it would take.
Start with the assessment, not the migration.
Book an assessment call30 minuteswith the engineer who would scope the work[PLACEHOLDER: written-summary turnaround, not yet committed]
Bring the deadline that is driving this — a support date, a contract renewal, an audit finding, a peak season. We will tell you what a realistic plan looks like, or that you do not need us.