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Azure architecture that ships, not just scopes.

Independent Microsoft Azure delivery for DACH and Benelux enterprises. We design the landing zone, run the migration, cut the bill, and hand over a platform your team can govern.

What we deliver on Azure

Azure migration and modernisation

Most migrations stall when the estate turns out larger than the plan assumed. Dependencies are undocumented, and the cutover window keeps moving.

  • Migration at scale: 1,000+ servers and 300+ applications moved to Azure across multiple datacentres.
  • A recovery path when a move is already at risk. We took a national airline’s stalled datacentre-to-cloud migration onto an SRE model and brought it back on track.
  • Dependency mapping and a cutover sequence agreed before anything moves.

Azure landing zone and governance

A landing zone set up once and never governed drifts. Subscriptions multiply, policy gaps open, and the auditor finds them before you do.

  • A hub-and-spoke landing zone with 85% of infrastructure as Terraform code.
  • A 94% CIS benchmark across subscriptions, with the policy set that holds it there.
  • Governance enforced in code, not described in a slide.

Cloud networking and connectivity

Hybrid workloads fail on latency and routing long before they fail on compute.

  • ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN designs running sub-10ms latency over hybrid links.
  • A network topology that production workloads can sit on.
  • The same hub-and-spoke landing zone we govern in Terraform carries the network design, so routing changes ship through the same policy pipeline as the rest of the platform.

FinOps and Azure cost optimisation

Azure spend compounds. By the time finance asks, the waste is structural, not a setting.

  • A 34% reduction in three-year TCO through architecture-led rightsizing and reserved capacity.
  • 22% off live spend, plus a 28% Microsoft EA discount through Reserved Instance and Hybrid Benefit work.
  • A FinOps practice with automated cost monitoring, not a one-off cleanup.

Platform reliability and managed services

Uptime targets are easy to write and hard to hold once the platform is live and the team is firefighting.

  • An SRE operating model holding a 99.95% SLA, with MTTR cut by 65%.
  • Up to 99.999% uptime on the workloads that need it.
  • A reliability retainer, so the platform stays governed after handover.
  • The same SRE model that brought a stalled national-airline migration back on track runs here as a standing retainer, not a one-off fix.

Cloud security and identity

Security that lives outside the architecture is a checklist. A flat network lets a single compromised OT device reach the domain controller in one hop. Built inside the architecture, the control is enforced.

  • Zero Trust and PKI implemented across IT and OT, saving €750k a year.
  • Entra ID and Key Vault designs built and run by AZ-500-certified engineers.
  • A security review that maps each finding to the named control it answers to.

Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

Reporting platforms sprawl. Semantic models multiply, the numbers disagree, and no one trusts the dashboard.

  • Enterprise Microsoft Fabric and Power BI architectures with governed semantic models.
  • Data integration on Azure SQL and Data Factory, built to a single source of truth.
  • A platform review that fixes the model, not just the visuals.

Governance & compliance

  • Sovereign landing zone configuration in the Germany West Central Azure region.
  • GDPR Article 44 data-transfer restrictions addressed in the architecture, not a policy note.
  • CIS compliant across subscriptions, enforced in Terraform.
  • A documented data processing agreement and sub-processor chain.
Read our governance approach

Where we sit

Between a freelancer and a large integrator.

A complex Azure and AI engagement usually narrows to two options. A freelancer gives you depth and no cover for the day that one person is unavailable. A large integrator gives you a brand in the pitch and a junior team on delivery. Pavicore holds the middle: the senior architects who scope your work are the ones who deliver it.

A freelancer

  • Real technical depth, and flexible to work with.
  • No governance capability and no continuity plan.
  • One person carries the engagement. If they drop out, it stops.

A large integrator

  • Knows the Microsoft platform, but AI often means Copilot licences and Azure credits.
  • Senior names win the pitch. A junior team runs the delivery.
  • Day-rate contracts and cycles measured in quarters.

Pavicore

  • The architects who scope the work deliver it. No handover to a junior bench.
  • Architecture first: Azure and AI as one system, with GDPR Article 44 transfers and EU AI Act classification designed in.
  • Fixed-fee assessments at a published price, creditable against the build. Delivery runs in weeks, not quarters.

Proof, not promises.

Situation, action, quantified outcome. Each reference names the sector and the number.

Start with what you need to do on Azure.

A short working session with the architects who would deliver the work. We point you to the engagement that fits your need.