Modernization Strategy &
Roadmap for Microsoft
Platforms
Key Benefits and Value
• Align investments with business goals
• Unbiased and objective review of Microsoft environment
• Identify opportunities for cost savings in a customers Microsoft environment
– Reduce server and database sprawl
– Automate and optimize Microsoft apps
• Define path to cloud for Microsoft applications
– Office 365
– Azure Active Directory
– Azure
• Mitigate risk identifying EOL platforms
• Increase productivity and user experience
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Microsoft Platform Modernization Workshop
MICROSOFT PLATFORM STRATEGY & GUIDANCE SPANNING FOUR KEY AREAS
Analysis & Recommendations
Microsoft Platform
Strategy Review
HYBRID
CLOUD
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
CLOUD
CLOUD
Candidate
Architecture
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Roadmap & Next Phase
Planning
Microsoft platform strategy review
HIGHLIGHTS
• Review technical environment via tool and interview based methods
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Gain an in depth understanding of the source environment
• Review strategic objectives that impact Microsoft application roadmap and goals
• Identify any non-technical barriers
• Conduct a series of workshops to assist customers with Microsoft application modernization plans
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Discuss key business, design and implementation influencers
• Typical scope and focus of Microsoft products and capabilities include:
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Directory synchronization
Messaging, collaboration, productivity
Unified communications
Database infrastructure
Security, governance, archiving and compliance
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Analysis & recommendations
HIGHLIGHTS
Analysis
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Determine the constraints and dependencies that need to be addressed or mitigated
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Identify the risks of implementation and migration, review options and recommended mitigation strategies
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Assess functional gains/gaps that will be introduced as part of the transition
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Evaluate viability of multiple cloud-based strategies including on-prem, managed, hybrid and public cloud solutions
Recommendations
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Scorecard assessment including project complexity, risk and organizational benefit
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Relative comparison of platform maturity level against industry standards
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Ensure alignment with industry best practices and Dell EMC insight from past engagements
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Document and prioritize key decisions based on current Microsoft platforms, future goals and constraints
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Candidate architecture
HIGHLIGHTS
• Develop high level candidate architecture for each in-scope Microsoft application platform
• Depiction of the logical solution architecture representing the future vision of the application platform
• Candidate architecture based on inputs including, but not limited to:
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On premises vs. cloud based components
Resiliency, availability and disaster recovery
Consolidation vs distributed application models
Identity management and SSO (e.g., use of ADFS, AAD Connect, third party identity management tools, etc)
Compute and storage infrastructure
Key 3rd party dependencies and integrations
HYBRID
CLOUD
PRIVATE
CLOUD
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PUBLIC
CLOUD
Roadmap and next phase planning
HIGHLIGHTS
• Develop an initial high-level program roadmap that prioritizes application platform
modernization initiatives and component workstreams
• Provide high-level implementation timelines based on typical implementations for the
Microsoft specific components
• Prepare recommended immediate next steps
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Modernization strategy & roadmap deliverables
FOR YOUR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
Executive Summary
Strategic Review
Scorecard
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Strategic objectives that impact Microsoft application roadmap & goals
Maturity, benefits and review of Microsoft platforms
Candidate Architecture
Major components to be considered based on objectives
Platform Modernization
Roadmap
Implementation timeline sequencing major tasks and dependencies
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Engagement Budget, Team, & Assumptions
Dell EMC estimates that this engagement can be delivered in approximately 3-4 weeks.
Fixed fees for the engagement, exclusive of expenses, are $XX,000.
Dell EMC Team:
Key Assumptions:
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Discovery data for Microsoft platform will be provided
by the customer and/or limited to 1 week in total effort
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High-level strategy does not include individual server,
infrastructure or component level review
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In-scope application platforms include:
Two senior Microsoft resources with the following
combined skills:
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Directory Services (Office 365, Active Directory, Identity
Management, AD, ADFS, Federation, Identity Management,
Directory Synchronization)
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Messaging Services (Office 365, Exchange, Skype for
Business)
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Collaboration Services (SharePoint, Office 365)
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Database Platforms (SQL Server, Business Intelligence)
50% allocated Project Manager / Analyst
Advisory Architects (Tech QA) as needed
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Office 365
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Microsoft Exchange
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Microsoft SharePoint
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Skype for Business
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SQL Server
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Active Directory
Why Dell EMC for Microsoft?
Tens Of Thousands of
Technical Certifications
Worldwide Consultants Certified as Microsoft
MVPs, MCPs, Rangers, Microsoft Certified
Solution Masters & Certified Architects
Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner
45+ MSFT Partner Of The
Year Awards
Exceptional Microsoft Expertise
• Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint,
Dynamics, and Windows Server Experts
• Thousands of successful projects
16,000+ Service Professionals &
Support Experts Worldwide
Exceptional Total Customer Experience plus Global
Network of Alliances & Partners
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Accelerating to Cloud
Dell EMC and Microsoft are reshaping
the cloud landscape with our joint
customers as we accelerate Microsoft
applications in their transformation to
Azure, Azure Stack and Office 365
through Microsoft FastTrack and
Cloud Solution Provider Programs
Dell EMC Services – we partner with Microsoft to
drive transformation
IT Transformation
Build the intelligent
cloud
Workforce Transformation
Reinvent productivity
and business
processes
Create more
personal computing
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
End User Computing
Application Rationalization
Mobility
Envision
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Design
Implement
Modernize
Automate
Case study: U.S. insurance company
COMPREHENSIVE MICROSOFT STRATEGY ENABLED MODERN DATA CENTER TRANSFORMATION
Challenges
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Acquiring new Line of Business (LoB) from another insurance company
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Pressure to launch new business with minimal disruption ASAP
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LoB applications and data running alongside other businesses on other firm’s infrastructure
Solution - Converged infrastructure, application & data migration services
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New infrastructure built on converged VCE Vblock infrastructure & EMC storage technologies
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Application advisory blueprinting, discovery, analysis & migration planning identifies workload
interdependencies for minimal disruption & risk
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Modernization and migration of core Microsoft infrastructure including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange,
Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server
Results
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Validated converged infrastructure & proven migration methodologies minimize risk and time-to-deploy
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Reduces time to market for new insurance products
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New platform reduces operating costs & eases IT management workloads
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Case study: U.S. federal civilian agency
Challenges
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Consolidate & migrate mission-critical Microsoft apps to next-generation operating environment, as part of
migration to new data center
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Tight, night-time windows for migration, no unscheduled downtime
Solution – Dell EMC Microsoft services
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Consolidation – Moved all Microsoft applications to a single production data center, prior to DC migration
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Modernization – Designed and implemented a new virtualized private cloud infrastructure based on Microsoft
technologies supporting Microsoft SQL, Exchange, AD, and Skype for Business in new target data center
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Migration - Used new dashboard & management modules to facilitate migration to the new data center
Results
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Successful delivery of 80+ Microsoft engineering projects, freeing IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives
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Successful migration to new data center in 11 months, avoiding millions of dollars in contract penalty—with
zero unplanned outages
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Next-generation virtualized Microsoft operating environment, monitoring & management in new data center
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Dell EMC’S proven app-centric approach
ELIMINATE RISK, SHORTEN PROJECT TIME, MODERNIZE APPLICATIONS & IMPROVE STAFF EFFICIENCY
Rapidly discover
interdependencies between
assets, apps, and storage to
obtain actionable data in
real-time
Eliminate >98% human errors
and reduce outage windows
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Determine most suitable,
optimal place for apps –
virtual, private, or public
cloud
Shorten project
elapsed times by 50%
Utilize interdependencies to
bundle apps, set migration
schedules, and plan
migration to most detailed
level
Modernize, optimize and
automate application portfolio
Increase collaboration and
efficiency with real-time
visibility into all migration
activities
Double staff efficiency and
minimize business impact
Cloud first data center transformation methodology
DISCOVERY & ANALYSIS
PLANNING
EXECUTION
Discover
Infrastructure Readiness
Pre-Migration
Workshops | Inventory | Applications
Design Architecture | Build Target
Environment
Facility Readiness | Migration Readiness
Validate
Applications | Infrastructure | Requirements
Application Plan
Migration
Application Portfolio Assessment
Design @Scale Migration Model | Define
Plan | Workload Migration
Application Modernization
Application Upgrade | Consolidation |
Automation
Track Progress | Workload Migration |
Alignment | Rationalization | Disposition |
Cloud Suitability | Dependency Mapping
Microsoft Platform Strategy (Optional)
Architecture | Transformation Roadmap
Analyze & Bundle
Migration Options | Risk Analysis
Review & Schedule
Migration Procedures
Final Table Top | Go/No Go Decision
Report/Escalate
Certify
Final Runbooks | Executive Summary |
Business Case
Migration Runbooks
Test & Contingency Plans
Migration Test Plan | Contingency Plan
Migration/Test Strategy | Transition Report
Business Case
TCO | Migration Costs | ROI | Roadmap
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
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Project Charter
Action Item/Risk/Issue Registers
Communication Plan
Project Work Plan
Project Status
Steering Committee Dashboard
Quality Assurance
Change Control
Assessment of current state
DISCOVERY & ANALYSIS
PLANNING
EXECUTION
Business Classification
Application Disposition
Business Case
Prioritize | Align | Rationalize
Best Investment Path | Affinity Mapping
Functional | Financial | Technology | Action
Custom Profiling
Cloud Suitability
Microsoft Application Roadmap
Characteristic | Portfolio Segment
Transportability | Optimal Cloud Platform
Microsoft Platform Strategy (Optional)
Cloud Native Assessment
Architecture | Transformation Roadmap
Pivotal 12 Factor Readiness | Non-intrusive
data collection
Financial Analysis
TCO | Migration costs | ROI | Maintenance
Portfolio Discovery
App to App interdependencies | Risks |
Bundling | Optimization
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
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Project Charter
Action Item/Risk/Issue Registers
Communication Plan
Project Work Plan
Project Status
Steering Committee Dashboard
Quality Assurance
Change Control
Comprehensive Change Required
MULTI-CLOUD
PLATFORMS
MODERN DEV
NEW APPS
BUILD NEW
Cloud Native
Pivotal
CLOUD FOUNDRY
REPLATFORM
APPLICATION
PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
MODERNIZE
PUBLIC CLOUD
MIGRATE
EXISTING APPS
Traditional
MIGRATE
ENTERPRISE or NATIVE
HYBRID CLOUD
RETIRE
RETAIN
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RETIRE
Application Profiling services
COMPRISES 8 CAPABILITIES
Prioritize &
segment
applications
by customerspecific
business
drivers
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Identify best
investment
path for
applications
How easily
can an
application be
moved and
which cloud:
Public,
Private, or
Managed
Measure 12
factors for
application
readiness for
cloud native
modernization
Profile for
any
characteristic
or portfolio
segment
Determine
opportunities
to optimize &
avoid potential
transformation
risks and
impacts to
business
Model ROI of
current vs.
future state
TCO, including
estimates for
cost of
transformation,
maintenance
Reproducible,
leveraging
business,
functional and
financial
components
for holistic
understanding
Case study: Major insurance group
Challenges
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Needed to transform its collaboration & intranet portfolio and provide a viable destination for tens of thousands
of sites and content repositories
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Planned to redesign their global intranet and collaboration solutions while modernizing the underlying platforms
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Had to address governance and compliance for their global workforce
Solution -
Application Transformation: SharePoint Modernization & Digital Workplace
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Leveraged a SharePoint 2013 “as a Service” architecture and governance model and our user-centric design
process to create an intuitive, modern intranet portal and collaboration solution that helps inform and engage
employees but also helps them “get their jobs done”
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Solution designed to scale for 27,000 users and over 200TB over a 5 year period
Results
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Completely modernized platform with robust governance
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A compelling, engaging user experience have led to rampant success and adoption of the digital workplace
portal solution since the launch
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