Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation creates impact in the community by providing more people with care as a result of saving money with their move to Microsoft Azure

As an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty, Joseph Rowntree Foundation identified that their ageing infrastructure didn’t provide a platform to enable the organisation to change. This meant that they needed to move to a new internal IT infrastructure that could respond to the varying demands of a modern digital workplace and be one that is both secure, stable and simplified.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation engaged with Phoenix to look at the possibilities and what would deliver impact to the entire organisation and drive it forward. This started with a Surveyor 360 assessment from Phoenix which identifies the appropriate mix of on-premise, hybrid or cloud workloads and helps plan for your future growth.

Phoenix’s unique Surveyor 360 is made up of the following modules and provides a rounded perspective to base business and technical decision on:

• Infrastructure Assessment
• SQL and Data
• Backup, Continuity and DR
• Security
• DevOps

Following Surveyor 360, the decision was taken to make the move to Microsoft Azure as it fitted hand in glove with their requirements. Not only would it reduce the risk and cost to the organisation and enable IT to deliver changes, but it would also remove the barriers that their ageing infrastructure were starting to bring.

Working in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we have been able deliver the following to help with their end-to-end Microsoft cloud requirement:

• Infrastructure migration to Azure
• Use of Microsoft Business Value Programme to showcase and implement Microsoft 365
• Engaged with Joseph Rowntree Foundation to review Dynamics 365 as a replacement for their Housing Management System
• Optimise licences to maximise savings and ensure compliance
• Built upon cloud deployment to explore advanced workloads such as IoT, AI and Machine Learning in the context of a ‘Smart Region’ initiative
• Enable a more mobile workforce and identified savings for Joseph Rowntree Foundation to invest in core services
• Allow the organisation to deliver organic growth