Technology Strategy

Alignment and momentum

Helping boards, senior management and technology leadership align on an agreed roadmap, direction and resourcing plan.

Embed the plan across business units to get them swimming in the same direction.

Technology selection based on best-practice, contemporary cloud-based solutions.

Cloud Move Strategy

Best leveraging cloud services

Helping customers plan a true cloud migration, that unlocks data, insights and business agility.

Set an enterprise architecture plan that when executed, sees true value as opposed to ‘lift and shift, moving to someone else’s datacenter’.

Enterprise Architecture

A cohesive approach

A structured methodology to understand and codify the platforms and processes within a business.

Define current, transition and future states, to enable modernisation and rationalisation of platforms in the move to the cloud.

Google Cloud Start

GCP Fundamentals

Account setup, folders and projects; through networking, security and performance; to monitoring, logging and audit; analogous services to other cloud vendors.

Agenda tailored to customer, aligns to standard Google methodology.

Building on GCP

How to build software fast

Continuous Delivery and Deployment, using Containerised Microservices to deliver enterprise software fast on GCP. Fully functioning and deployable demonstration.

Using well known enterprise tools to deliver efficient patterns, security and governance.

Running On GCP

How to run software on GCP

Design patterns, infrastructure as code, patterns and processes to deliver enterprise business change.

Same core topics as Cloud Start such as security, networking and monitoring, diving a lot deeper for mature engineering teams.

Migrating to GCP

How to take advantage of GCP

After a full-day workshop, the next step is a deeper engagement with technical specialists. There are significant efficiencies to be gained from using GCP specific implementation of services like Security and Networking, and technologies like Kubernetes and BigQuery.

Outcome is a high level document and agreement on an approach to PoC.

Security on GCP

Harness the most secure cloud

From dedicated hardware to internet facing consumer experiences, explore best-practice enterprise implementation of security for your own applications.

Gain understanding and comfort into the methods and controls for securing applications, and how they beat traditional IT and data centers.

Machine Learning Discovery

From questions to answers

From c-suite to front line management, find questions for which your organisation needs answers to make effective decisions.

Find where data may be to support the decisioning, and pick candidates for a Proof of Concept that uses Google’s data, insights, and Machine Learning capability to deliver results.

Application Development

Software delivery PoC

Practiv will deliver functioning application development patterns PoC for a consumer facing or internal software delivery project.

A foundation on which any business outcomes can be delivered.

Appropriate architecture, product and project planning required between PoC and any full delivery project.

Build Pipelines

Functioning CI/CD PoC

Best practice Build Pipelines deployed and ready to be tailored to the specific pipeline requirements over subsequent weeks.

Usually starts with an implementation of the Practiv Build pipeline, well-known enterprise tools (Github, Jenkins and Artifactory or similar) deployed on GCP.

Run Platforms

Functioning environment PoC

Design and framework for infrastructure, including market-tested patterns and processes to deliver enterprise change.

The same core topics as Cloud Start such as security, networking and monitoring, but a much deeper dive on requirements and GCP specific implementation for mature engineering teams.

Application Development

Production software outcomes

Business outcomes delivered through software projects.

Green-fields development of modern cloud-native applications.

Renovation and refactoring of existing applications to take advantage of cloud deployment.

Build Pipelines

Efficient delivery teams

Once a successful Build Pipeline PoC has been established, the work remains to align teams in using CI/CD effectively, and focus on delivering business value fast.

That means stable, secure production releases of software that is meaningful to the rest of the organisation.

Run Platforms

Managed infrastructure + support

Practiv delivers Infrastructure outcomes in any format a customer may want; from fully managed service; to Tier 2 SRE; to establishing environments, training teams and handing them over to run themselves.