Azure Governance
Reduce Costs, Protect and Organize Your Azure Resources with a Good Control, Domain, and Optimization Plan
Azure Governance
What Is Azure Governance?
Azure governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, or processes that direct and control how an organization’s business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve their business objectives.
What Is the Governance Plan?
The governance plan focuses on guidance and discovery of the different Azure control and security options alongside the required company departments.
5 Key Azure Governance Premises
Planning and Prioritizing
Planning of initiatives and setting strategic priorities for the organization.
Personnel Training
Skills and product training for all personnel involved.
Decision-Making
Appropriate and agile governance decision-making by the organization in response to its cross-cutting needs.
Plan Implementation
Design and implementation of a governance framework for the organization, including maintenance and evolution over time.
Plan Tracking
Monitoring of the governance plan to guarantee and ensure the implementation of established policies, defined guidelines, and possible corrective actions.
What Does ENCAMINA Offer You?
ENCAMINA offers you to develop a project with a series of phases to advance the elaboration of an Azure governance plan, focusing on ensuring the adequate training of the organization and relevant decision making.
Phase 1: Analysis and Training
Level Assessment
- Current maturity level
- Expectations and objectives
Training
- Skills workshops
- Technology/product workshops
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Phase 2: Development
Governance Plan Development
- Development and delivery of the Governance Plan by ENCAMINA
Phase 3: Implementation
Implementation of Actions and Initiatives
- Governance implementation
- Governance management (Azure monitoring)
Next steps: prepaid bundle of hours/managed services (separate assessment)
(*) Initial reference methodologies are based on Microsoft’s CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) and WAF (Well-Architected Framework).
Phases of the Azure Governance Plan Development
PHASE 1: Maturity Assessment
The assessment consists of analyzing your organization’s type and level of use of the Microsoft Azure platform.
Objectives:
- Understand the current level of cloud adoption and maturity in your organization.
- Set current or required levels of expectations and governance objectives.
PHASE 1: Training
- Skills Workshops: aimed at developing the necessary skills for Azure governance and control.
- Technology/product workshops: focused on developing skills to control the systems and products required for good governance.
Objectives:
- Ensure proper training and education of your organization in a series of workshops, taking into account its maturity level and the objectives identified/established in the previous phase.
- Obtain skills and best practices for Azure (roles, Way of Working, etc.).
- Learn about the Azure services and products required for good governance.
PHASE 2: Governance Plan Development
In this phase, the organization makes decisions related to the Azure Governance disciplines defined by Microsoft:
- Business Risks:
Document evolving business risks and your company’s business risk tolerance based on the classification of critical data and applications. - Policy and Compliance:
Turn risk decisions into policy statements to establish cloud adoption boundaries. - Processes:
Establish processes to monitor non-compliance with corporate policies.
PHASE 3: Implementation
Once the governance plan is completed and delivered, ENCAMINA may implement the identified actions and initiatives and manage the governance of Azure resources and services. To carry out the latter service the scope and management modality will be agreed upon completion of the project.
Optimize Your Azure Costs
Benefits of Effective Governance
Save costs on our subscriptions.
Avoid performance and scalability surprises.
Simplify implementation.
Protect your organization from security threats and ensure compliance with policies.
Alinear y lograr objetivos de negocio.
Reducir el TCO y maximizar ROI.
Project Deliverables
- The Azure Governance Plan is a document based on Microsoft’s recommended practices for the proper governance of Azure resources and services. The plan will include recommendations on actions to implement and best practices to follow, enriched with ENCAMINA’s extensive experience.
- All sessions may be recorded and will be available to the group’s users upon request.
Why Should You Choose ENCAMINA?
- ENCAMINA has an ideal combination of DevOps, Azure Iaas/PaaS Engineering, Security, and Consulting profiles.
- Internationally recognized talent (MVPs).
- Proven experience.
- Premium connection with vendors.
- A mindset and attitude that always THINKS IN COLORS.
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