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Built for finance — audits, close, and the systems nobody wants to touch.
Audit season, a disaster-recovery plan nobody has tested, and a SQL Server past its support date — that is what actually drives an Azure decision at a 15-to-500-person finance company, not a “digital transformation” initiative.
What this usually looks like
SQL Server 2016 · end of extended support · · Microsoft SQL Server 2016 lifecycle
last reviewed · · Trust and security
company delivery history · founder-asserted ·
| The problem | What it actually costs | Where we answer it |
|---|---|---|
| The reporting everything depends on sits on a SQL Server that went out of Microsoft support on 14 July 2026, and your disaster-recovery plan for it has not been tested end to end. | An outage with no rehearsed recovery point, discovered the week an auditor or examiner asks for one. | Azure & Microsoft Migration |
| 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. | A week of three people’s time assembled under deadline, and an answer that is only as reliable as whoever remembers the exception. | Trust and security |
| Month-end close depends on one person, two spreadsheets and a query nobody else has read. | A close that cannot run faster than the one person who understands the spreadsheet, and no backup if they are out. | Reconciliation & close |
None of this is exotic. It is the same handful of problems that show up in every finance business this size, in a different order each time.
SQL Server 2016 reached end of extended support on 14 July 2026. Extended Security Updates are available only until 17 July 2029 — and, despite what a vendor pitch might imply, migrating to Azure VMs alone does not restore free access to those updates for this version.
SQL Server 2016 · end of extended support · · Microsoft SQL Server 2016 lifecycle
Built for
- Finance companies — banks, credit unions, lenders, insurers, and wealth or fund administrators — with 15 to 500 employees in the United States.
- A SQL Server, file share or Microsoft 365 tenant that an auditor, examiner or larger client is already asking questions about.
- A month-end close, a portfolio report or a regulatory return that still depends on one person and a spreadsheet.
- A real deadline: an end-of-support date, an audit finding, an exam, an acquisition, or a contract renewal.
Not a fit
- You need a regulated credit, lending, insurance-pricing or employment model — or the audit opinion, attestation or examination itself. That needs a specialist model-risk or audit practice, not us.
- You run a national or global estate measured in thousands of servers. A systems integrator built for that scale is the right shape of firm.
- You want the SQL Server question solved by Friday with no assessment. That is how a cloud bill nobody can explain gets created.
- Your only driver is "the board wants a cloud strategy" with no operational problem underneath it. The assessment will probably tell you to stay where you are, and we will still charge for it.
Where finance work continues
The two pages every finance buyer needs before booking a call, plus the one nested page built specifically for finance-shaped prioritisation problems.
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