Cutting IT costs 30% for a Perth accounting firm with a cloud migration
Ageing on-prem servers were costing a fortune to maintain. A staged Microsoft 365 + Azure migration cut IT spend 30% and made tax season painless.
30%
Reduction in IT costs
0
Hours lost in tax season
3 wks
Migration time
24/7
Secure remote access
The challenge
The firm relied on two ageing on-premise servers that were expensive to maintain and a single point of failure. Staff couldn't work effectively from home, and the BAS/EOFY peak regularly overwhelmed the hardware.
What we did
We migrated the firm to Microsoft 365 and Azure over three weeks, scheduled around their workload so there was no disruption. We added secure remote access with MFA, set up third-party backup for cloud accounting data, and pre-provisioned capacity ahead of tax season.
The outcome
Total IT spend dropped roughly 30% once the server maintenance contracts ended. The team now works securely from anywhere, and the most recent tax season ran without a single capacity-related outage.
Services involved
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