Client engagement 01
Moving a growing SaaS platform to Azure without a big-bang cutover
Situation
A SaaS company expected significant business growth, but its applications were hosted in a local data center. The estate included Windows Services, a website and blog, and a very large shared database that constrained scaling.
Business constraint
The company needed cloud capacity without taking every legacy system offline at once, and the new operating model still had to make financial sense.
Transcendent's role
Transcendent Software assessed the application estate, designed the hybrid transition, converted workloads, separated databases, and migrated the system one application at a time.
Approach
Establish secure connectivity between the data center and Azure
Convert Windows Services to Azure WebJobs and move the website to App Service
Create dedicated Azure SQL databases while continuing to supply the legacy warehouse
Move dependent systems incrementally, then use reserved Azure instances to control cost
Outcome
The system moved to Azure through staged transitions, and reserved cloud capacity helped reduce ongoing hosting costs.
What this engagement demonstrates
Cloud modernization can improve scalability and lower hosting cost while preserving operational continuity through an intentionally hybrid migration period.