Remove barriers of Azure migration assessments with Dicker Data and TechClick.

The success of cloud migration can rely greatly on its planning. This makes assessment of the on-premises environment a good place to start, but unfortunately many partners lack the resources or experience to properly understand their client's current state and plan for its rebirth in the cloud.

Dicker Data is helping partners overcome this assessment challenge through a partnership with cloud migration specialists TechClick to deliver a full migration service.

TechClick provides a comprehensive assessment of the on-premises environment which the partner can use to perform the migration. Alternately, TechClick can also take on the migration task if required.

TechClick's CEO Regina Melamed said the assessment service was a crucial step towards delivering a smooth migration.

"We go through the customer's current environment and look at what it will look like in the cloud," Melamed said. "We look at what needs to be rebuilt, refactored, rehosted, and so on. Then we put together a cost plan for the migration costs and the ongoing costs, and look for any funding that is available to the customer from Microsoft. The majority of our projects are fully funded."

At efex Group, chief technology officer David Perrett said having access to TechClick's assessment services gave him skills on demand for more complex projects.

"One of our big challenges is maintaining a deep bench of experts when it comes to doing different types of technical work," Perrett says. "At any given time, we could have 3000 project hours in the queue, so the faster we can burn through that, the faster revenue hits our books." - David Perrett, Efex Group

For the Sydney-based partner FALCO Technology Solutions , managing director Byron Da Silva says the assessment processes is helping his team respond to customer needs much faster.

"We found ourselves in a position where we had to migrate 15 customers across as quick as possible to Azure," da Silva says. "We just didn't have the resources to do that in a timely fashion. I reached out to Dick Data, and they put us in contact with TechClick." - Byron Da Silva, FALCO Technology Solutions

Click here to learn more about Dicker Data's Microsoft Azure cloud migration service, powered by TechClick.