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Future-ready foundations to help you scale smarter, build faster and go further
Whatever success looks like for your organisation, progress starts with the right foundations. That means smarter systems, sharper insights, and the freedom to scale without limits – all powered by technology that works for your teams, securely and reliably.
How we can help
At BCN, we help organisations harness the full potential of the cloud and open the door to better performance, faster innovation, and the ability to adapt at speed.
We help forward-thinking businesses take control. Whether you’re just starting out, looking to optimise, or ready to modernise your environment, we make it easy to move faster on the things that matter – simplifying your systems and unlocking new levels of performance for your teams, your tech, and your business.
With BCN, Microsoft Azure isn’t just about maximising your infrastructure – it’s about building a stronger, more adaptable business, on smarter foundations that deliver lasting impact. Because when you choose a tech partner who understands your challenges, your culture and your ambitions, you don’t just implement change – you create momentum.
Start your journey to the cloud
BCN experts understand the unique and hidden benefits of each licensing model, ensuring that you get the right mix of cost, flexibility, and features to support your business objectives.
As a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), BCN's migration team can help you identify if you are eligible for Microsoft funding support, and provide you with the expertise to access it.
BCN migration specialists can assist in creating a detailed transition timeline, allowing for planning, execution, and potential troubleshooting - all while ensuring all critical milestones are met.
BCN helps clients move from CapEx to OpEx (or combine both). And by tracking and analysing cloud spending with Azure Cost Management, businesses get the best value when migrating.
Migrate to Azure
With an outdated infrastructure fast approaching the end of vendor support, Southway Housing Trust needed to find a modern solution and a provider who could deliver it quickly. The not-for-profit organisation, which provides quality affordable housing in south Manchester, didn’t simply want to upgrade their systems, they wanted to build a new modern, cloud-first IT environment. BCN was able to quickly and successfully migrate the trust and its more than 300 users to a bespoke Azure infrastructure that provides a flexible, scalable and secure environment that’s fit for the future.
BCN provides a free assessment that's tailored to your needs, including an in-depth review of your existing infrastructure, as well as a 1-page overview that outlines key business insights.
Maximise your cloud potential
For some partners, cloud migration is where their support begins and ends. If you’ve been seeing the benefits of Azure and you’re ready to go further, your setup needs to keep pace with your goals.
We help businesses unlock more from their cloud environment – reducing costs, improving performance, eliminating waste, and maximising the potential of your investments. Whether you’re struggling with cost visibility, cloud sprawl or sluggish systems, we’ll help you regain control of your Azure environment and drive new levels of performance, efficiency, and ROI.
BCN's Azure specialists can work with you to develop a FinOps framework that enables you to allocate costs effectively, optimise your resources and improve your forecasting.
If you're concerned that you're paying for resources you don't need, then BCN experts can help you eliminate cloud waste such as idle instances, duplicated data, and orphaned resources.
By implementing Microsoft Defender and Sentinel our experts ensure that threat management and policy compliance are built into your business by default.
BCN helps optimise workloads to run efficiently on Azure, boosting overall system responsiveness, increasing operational efficiencies, accelerating innovation, and improving user satisfaction.
Client Story
As Frenkel Topping grew from 90 to 500 employees through organic expansion and acquisitions, modernising and aligning their infrastructure became essential. Each acquired business brought its own systems and challenges, requiring a flexible, future-ready solution.
BCN played a pivotal role in updating and optimising their Azure environment – not just migrating to the cloud, but designing and supporting a scalable setup tailored for long-term growth and innovation. The result? A streamlined, centralised infrastructure that simplifies management and unlocks new opportunities in AI and automation.
Do more with AI, Apps and analytics
If you’re already building apps or running digital services in Azure, it could be time to evolve your platform – simplifying your architecture, embedding AI, and automating more of what you do.
We help ambitious, software-driven organisations to modernise their environments, integrating smarter tools and Azure-native technologies to accelerate development. With access to Microsoft funding and hands-on support from some of the brightest minds in tech, we help you move faster, build better, and innovate with confidence – turning your vision into scalable, sustainable success.
Working with Azure's AI and machine learning tools, BCN's experts can help you deliver predictive and real-time reporting that will make a genuine difference to your business.
BCN is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Business Applications, and can easily embed AI insights and integrate Azure within Microsoft tools used across your business, such as M365.
Azure Cognitive Services offers ready-to-use AI APIs, which can be employed to build AI capabilities into existing applications, so you can start delivering AI powered features to your apps today.
BCN's experts are experienced in shifting businesses to Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), providing a pre-configured environment for developing, deploying, and managing your apps with ease.
PEAK4 had a bold vision – to bring sports science into the workplace. By using wearables to track heart rate, sleep, and activity, they aimed to generate meaningful insights into employee wellbeing and performance and feed this back in data-powered dashboards overlaid with AI. To turn this into reality, they needed an Azure-native data lake using Microsoft Fabric, consolidating all metrics into a single, intelligent platform that enables deep, lifestyle-driven analysis.
This is what building modern solutions on Azure looks like. We work with software-driven organisations like PEAK4 to go beyond basic cloud adoption – using Azure-native tools to create complex, scalable applications that drive real impact.
Find out if your business is eligible for Microsoft funding for your next Azure project by partnering with BCN.
FAQs
Microsoft Azure is the leading, global cloud platform. It’s growing number of integrated cloud services provide a complete solution for businesses looking to improve the productivity, increase their efficiency and enhance their flexibility.
With Azure, businesses can build infrastructure, develop, deploy and run applications, manage identity, and set up reliable back-up and disaster recovery options and more.
Designed to provide a secure, future-proofed infrastructure and hosting platform, Azure is the long-term solution to enable strategic business goals.
As Azure requires businesses to pay only for the services they use, customers can scale their environments up or down as needed to meet demand, whether that is seasonal or organic growth within your business. This payment model also reduces expensive up-front hardware purchases and on-premises maintenance costs.
For more details read our guide or get in touch.
Cloud hosting generally provides better securing than shared hosting due to resource isolation, scalability, redundancy, and dedicated security features. However, it is important to note that security is a shared responsibility and it is key to implement securing practices such as updates and patching and regular backing up of data.
A cloud server refers to a virtualised server that functions in a cloud computing environment. It is a virtual machine (VM) running on a group of computers hosted in data centres, where scalable computer resources like processing speed, memory, and storage are made available.
Where your data is stored depends on the specific cloud service provider you choose. Most cloud providers have data centres located in multiple regions and even counties. When data is stored on cloud servers, it is normally distributed across multiple physical servers within these centres for redundancy and fault tolerance.
Why BCN for Azure
At BCN, we don’t just lift and shift infrastructure – we help businesses unlock real value from Azure, whether they’re migrating for the first time or modernising at scale.
As a long-standing Microsoft Solutions Partner with proven technical expertise across infrastructure, data, AI and application innovation, we bring strategic thinking, commercial understanding and hands-on delivery to every project.
From helping you secure funding to optimising performance, streamlining operations or embedding the latest AI, we’ll make sure your Azure environment is working hard the way you need it to – and that it delivers lasting impact for your teams, your customers, and your business.
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