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For business

Practical architecture for organizations that cannot afford failure.

For banks, government, and regulated enterprises across MENA that need Azure platforms which stay compliant, operable, and cost-transparent in production.

Same operating model from Dev/SIT through UAT and Production.

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Advisory

Cloud and AI strategy

Own the regional strategy and the execution, not a slide that stops at the subscription.

  • Align enterprise architecture with financial governance and regulatory requirements
  • Standardize how markets adopt the platform
  • FinOps operating model and a cost view leadership can act on

What you get

  • Regional target architecture aligned to regulatory and financial governance needs
  • FinOps operating model with a cost view leadership can act on
  • Prioritized roadmap that connects strategy to funded execution
  • Clear view of constraints (regulatory, organizational, technical) before design begins
Plan the regional strategy
Execution

Landing zones and delivery

CAF and Well-Architected landing zones, with guardrails teams can build inside.

  • The same architecture across Dev/SIT, UAT, and Production
  • AI platform readiness for advanced workloads and enterprise LLM initiatives
  • Automation that removes manual operations and shortens delivery

What you get

  • Production-ready CAF/WAF landing zone with consistent guardrails in every environment
  • Migration patterns and automation that internal teams can run and maintain
  • AI-ready platform foundations for advanced and LLM workloads
  • Reduced manual operations through automation built into the design
Start the landing zone
Enablement

Security, resilience, teams

Identity, compliance, and resilience designed per jurisdiction, with a team that can run it.

  • Regional security and IAM standardization
  • Disaster recovery and high availability by design
  • Cross-functional cloud and platform engineering teams

What you get

  • Jurisdiction-specific security and IAM baseline, ready for audit
  • Disaster recovery and high availability designed in, not added later
  • Operating model and team structure that can sustain the standard after handover
  • Clear ownership so the platform remains healthy in production
Review the operating model

Built for regulated MENA realities

Designs and delivery for regulated environments. The work assumes auditors will arrive, production will have incidents, and cost must remain transparent as the platform scales.

“Migration volume does not define maturity. Operational discipline, cost transparency, and architectures that survive Dev, SIT, UAT, and Production do.”

  • Regulated banking and financial services
  • Government and government-linked entities
  • Large enterprises with multi-market or multi-jurisdiction needs

How the work progresses

01Discover

The region, the constraint, and what done looks like.

Outcome. Constraint map, regulatory scope, and a shared definition of “done.”

02Design

Landing zones, FinOps, and the operating model.

Outcome. Target architecture, FinOps model, and guardrails that apply consistently across environments.

03Deliver

Governance, automation, and AI readiness in the same design.

Outcome. Implemented landing zone, automation, and platform patterns the team can build on.

04Sustain

Security, resilience, and a team that keeps the standard.

Outcome. Handover, runbooks, and an operating model that preserves the standard in production.

How this is different

  • Hands-on architecture and delivery. Strategy does not stop at the subscription.
  • One operating model across Dev/SIT, UAT, and Production. No separate “production is different” design.
  • Built for regulated MENA conditions: jurisdiction-specific controls, audit readiness, and cost transparency from the start.

Typical work includes regional strategy and a landing zone foundation, migration program support, security and compliance remediation, and an operating model with team enablement.

Led by Tareq Al-Ghazzi, Head of Cloud Services, MENA.

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Share the region, the regulatory context, and what “done” needs to look like. We'll map the practical path from there.

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