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Banking & Finance

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Consumer lender: a governed Azure foundation for cloud migration

An embedded cloud team built an Azure Landing Zone, upskilled the client's teams and migrated 200+ workloads to production.

200+

↳ Cloud workloads migrated

100%

↳ Landing Zone alignment

40%

↳ Legacy footprint reduced

Context

A leading consumer credit provider operating in several Benelux countries, with a large legacy IT estate. Leadership launched a cloud program to migrate workloads to Azure, adopt DevOps practices and modernize core platforms.

FuturWork embedded a full-time cloud transformation team for more than 12 months to build the cloud foundation, upskill teams and speed up migration.

Challenges

  • Cloud adoption without standards. No unified Landing Zone, ad hoc provisioning and inconsistent security and cost governance.
  • Steep learning curve. Teams were new to cloud-native tools, IaC and CI/CD, which slowed delivery.
  • Legacy debt. Tightly coupled on-premise systems and unclear refactor or rehost decisions.

What we did

  • Standard cloud foundation. Azure Landing Zone designed and deployed, with guardrails enforced as policy-as-code.
  • Hands-on enablement. Coaching on IaC, CI/CD and Azure-native services. Teams deployed on their own within three months.
  • Targeted modernization. Migration-readiness assessments and a clear refactor, rehost or retire decision for each application.

Results

  • 200+ workloads migrated to production
  • 100% alignment with the Landing Zone
  • 40% smaller legacy footprint

From fragmented cloud adoption to a governed, scalable Azure foundation.

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