

Cloud adoption
Buildwise TechWorks has chosen to partner with Microsoft because the alignment is real — shared values, shared intent, and a shared understanding of what modern businesses need. (Partnership pending) Microsoft’s unified cloud ecosystem gives our clients a coherent, end-to-end architecture where every capability is within reach. It offers the foundational building blocks needed to automate, scale, and enable a world-class business environment.
We’ve broken our cloud offering into four practical capability areas:
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Office Tools & Automation
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Application Modernisation
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Business Continuity & Recovery
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Security & Governance (optional — if you want a fourth pillar)
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Office Tools & Automation
​Empowering people with tools that simplify, connect, and accelerate work.
Productivity doesn’t come from working harder — it comes from working smarter. Microsoft’s cloud-based tools bring collaboration, communication, and automation together in one place, giving your people what they need to focus on meaningful work.
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The essential ingredients of office productivity and automation include:
1. Cloud-Based Collaboration
Teams work together in real time, anywhere, on any device. Documents, projects, and conversations stay aligned.
2. Workflow Automation
Repetitive manual tasks are replaced with automated workflows — approvals, notifications, data movement — reducing friction and freeing up time.
3. Integrated Communication
Email, chat, calls, meetings, and shared workspaces sit within a unified platform that keeps communication clear and structured.
4. Business Apps for Every Function
From customer service to HR, finance, and operations, the ecosystem provides ready-to-use apps that streamline everyday processes.
5. Data Accessibility & Governance
Data is centralised, secure, and easy to find — allowing teams to make decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information.
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(Offering planned but not available immediately)
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Office tools and automation transform the way your organisation works. From real-time collaboration to automated workflows and integrated communication, your teams gain a connected environment that removes manual effort and improves productivity. These building blocks create a workplace that is efficient, aligned, and ready for the future.
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Application modernisation
Demystify what digital transformation is about with all the basic ingredients. Digital transformation often sounds abstract. We make it concrete by focusing on the core ingredients that matter — the practical building blocks of modern applications. These ingredients come together to modernise legacy systems, unlock innovation, and allow your business to operate with agility.
The core ingredients of application modernisation include:
1. Scalability (Elasticity)
Your systems adjust to demand automatically — scaling up during peak periods and scaling down when quiet. No more capacity guessing, no more overpaying for idle infrastructure.
2. Built-in Security
Security isn’t an add-on. It’s baked into every layer of the Microsoft ecosystem — identity, data, applications, devices — giving you a secure-by-design foundation for innovation.
3. Integration & Interoperability
Modern applications must talk to each other. The cloud provides connectors, APIs, and automation capabilities that allow previously siloed systems to work as a unified ecosystem.
4. Cloud-Native Development
Using the cloud’s own tools — containers, serverless computing, DevOps pipelines — to build or modernise apps faster, with less overhead and more reliability.
5. Resilience & High Availability
Modern architectures keep your business running even when components fail. Redundancy, replication, and failover are part of the core design.
6. Intelligent Services
Analytics, AI, and automation capabilities are readily available — turning day-to-day operations into data-driven, insight-rich processes.
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(Offering planned but not available immediately)
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Application modernisation is the practical expression of digital transformation. It takes the essential ingredients — scalability, built-in security, integration, cloud-native development, resilience, and intelligent services — and uses them to re-shape how your business systems work. Instead of large monolithic applications, you gain flexible, modular components that grow with your business and adapt to change. These building blocks allow you to innovate quickly, reduce operational costs, and deliver reliable, modern digital experiences.
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Business continuity & recovery
​The safety net that keeps your business running — no matter what.
In an unpredictable world, continuity isn’t optional. It’s the backbone of operational trust. Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem provides deeply integrated continuity capabilities, ensuring that your business remains available, resilient, and recoverable even when disruptions occur.
The core ingredients of continuity and recovery include:
1. Automated Backups & Versioning
Your data is continuously protected through scheduled or real-time backups. Point-in-time recovery means you can rewind to a clean state instantly.
2. Redundancy Across Regions
Your systems aren’t tied to one location. Data and services are duplicated across multiple regions, allowing operations to continue even if one data centre fails.
3. Disaster Recovery Orchestration
Failover processes are automated and tested. Instead of scrambling in a crisis, your business switches seamlessly to standby systems.
4. High Availability by Design
Architectures include health monitoring, replication, and load balancing — ensuring your services stay up, responsive, and consistent.
5. Continuous Monitoring & Alerts
Smart monitoring detects risks early and triggers alerts before small issues become disruptions.
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(Offering planned but not available immediately)
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Business continuity and recovery ensures your business stays operational under any circumstances. With automated backups, regional redundancy, disaster recovery orchestration, and high availability built into the environment, you gain a resilient ecosystem that protects your operations and your customers. The result: confidence, stability, and the assurance that your business can withstand whatever comes its way.
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Security and Governance
A secure, compliant foundation that protects your business and strengthens trust.
Security is not a product — it’s a posture. It’s the discipline of designing systems that protect your data, your people, and your customers. Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem embeds security and governance into every layer, giving your organisation a strong, consistent framework to operate with confidence.
The key ingredients of security and governance include:
1. Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Access is controlled based on identity, roles, and risk. Only the right people get access to the right resources at the right time.
2. Zero Trust Architecture
Every user, device, and connection is verified before access is granted. Nothing — inside or outside the organisation — is automatically trusted.
3. Data Protection & Compliance
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with classification, retention, and compliance policies applied consistently across the environment.
4. Threat Detection & Response
Advanced monitoring, behavioural analytics, and automated responses identify and contain threats before they impact operations.
5. Policy-Driven Governance
Your environment is governed through policies, standards, and guardrails that ensure every system, app, and user interaction meets organisational and regulatory requirements.
6. Auditing & Visibility
Real-time dashboards and reporting provide transparency, enabling proactive risk management and informed decision-making.
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(Offering planned but not available immediately)
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Security and governance form the backbone of a trustworthy digital environment. With identity-based access, Zero Trust principles, data protection, proactive threat detection, and policy-driven governance, your business gains a secure-by-design foundation that scales with you. These ingredients work together to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and create a resilient environment where your people and your customers can operate with confidence.
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