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Five practices, wired into your industry.

Every practice runs in every sector we serve, with the solutions and regulatory detail that sector needs. Pick a service or an industry and follow the thread.

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Service lens · every practice has solutions in every industry. Choose a service or an industrySolutions as listed on each industry page

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Universities, regulators and professional firms running on Microsoft.

Microsoft Solutions PartnerAzureSecurityData & AIDigital & App InnovationFounded 201210 industries served

Why “Optivory”

Every engagement sits between two ideas: the optimal architecture, and the victory it delivers.

Each one is measured against an outcome you can point to:

An audit passed
A migration completed without downtime
A compliance deadline met
A cost baseline beaten

The story behind the name

What we do

That's the shape of every engagement, whichever practice leads: five practices, one accountable team, no vendor handoffs, and no layer of the estate left unowned.

AiIntelligenceAI & Data
ClMigrationCloud
PsAssurancePlatform & Security
ApAdoptionApplications
InOperationsInfrastructure

IntelligenceAI & DataGoverned platforms that get models into production and keep them auditable. Lineage, evaluation and access control designed in, not retrofitted.

Azure OpenAI

Synapse

Copilot Studio

MigrationCloudMigrations sequenced by business service and regulatory exposure, not technical convenience. Landing zones that arrive policy-governed on day one.

Azure Migrate

Landing zones

Azure Policy

AssurancePlatform & SecurityZero-trust identity and controls mapped to the framework your regulator actually audits against.

Entra ID

Defender

Key Vault

AdoptionApplicationsDynamics 365 and Power Platform kept adopted and governed as customisation accumulates.

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

OperationsInfrastructureRound-the-clock operations with the cost governance that keeps savings compounding after we leave.

Azure Monitor

Cost Management

Architectural reviewNeed an independent technical sanity check?We review migration roadmaps, cloud spend and security posture, without commercial vendor lock-in bias.Ask for a review

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Managed ServicesThen we run itThe same five practices, run continuously under one agreement: monitoring, security, governance, optimisation, enhancement. What decides whether a platform still earns its keep by year three is ownership, not architecture.See how it works

Copilot governanceNew

Copilot inherits every permission in SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, and surfaces whatever a user can reach. Risk committees know it, and block deployment until someone can prove the estate is safe.

With Copilot Cowork, generally available since June 2026, Copilot now acts on that access as well as reading it. We build the proof, so your risk committee can say yes.

What your risk committee needs proven

Permissions audit
Sensitivity labelling
Grounding controls
AI audit trail

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For Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Cowork

Ask Copilot · illustrative, fictional files

Summarise what’s changing for my team next quarter.

Grounded in 6 of 6 files this user can reach

Team plan FY27.docxGeneralTeams · OperationsGeneral
Board pack restructuring (draft).pdfHighly confidentialSharePoint · Executive · Site open to everyone except external usersHighly confidential
Process handbook v4.docxGeneralSharePoint · OperationsGeneral
Roles at risk consultation.xlsxConfidentialSharePoint · HR · Library inherited org-wide accessConfidential
Salary review 2027.xlsxConfidentialOneDrive · HR business partner · “People in your organisation” linkConfidential
Q3 all-hands.pptxGeneralSharePoint · IntranetGeneral

Copilot

Operations moves to the updated process handbook. The draft board pack also proposes merging your team with Logistics, the consultation file lists six roles in your area as at risk, and the salary review caps rises at 2%.

Nothing here was hacked. Copilot used permissions the organisation had already granted.

Industries we work with

Ten regulated sectors, each answering to its own rules. We start from the rule, then build the platform that evidences it.

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The colonnaded portico of a classical banking hall — Banking · FCA PS21/3 · PRA SS1/21
Regulated core banking and payments workloads with audit-ready controls.
What we build: Regulator-Ready Migration
See Banking

How we work

That demand is a sequencing problem before it's an engineering one: migration waves in a regulated estate can't be ordered by dependency risk alone. Each wave has to hold impact tolerance through its own cutover, and that's what actually decides the order things move in.

An Optivory sequencing workshop, mapping business services against regulatory exposure

Illustrative plan
A migration sequence, as we actually plan it9 workloads · lease expiry M9 · choose a bar for what moves in it

The engagement model

That sequencing sits inside one governing structure: whichever practice leads, the engagement runs the same four phases, in the same order, every time.

01
Assess
Weeks 1 to 2
We map your estate, risks and objectives before proposing a single change, so every recommendation that follows is grounded in how your organisation actually operates today.
A prioritised, board-ready findings deck.
02
Architect
Weeks 3 to 4
We design a target state balancing performance, cost, security and simplicity, then pressure-test it with your team before a single line of infrastructure changes.
A signed-off architecture, not a slide deck.
03
Deliver
Weeks 5 to 10
Senior engineers execute with clear milestones and rollback plans at every step, so progress is visible and reversible rather than a black box until go-live.
Production cutover with zero surprise downtime.
04
Operate
Ongoing
You inherit a stable, observable, cost-controlled platform your team can own, with the documentation and runbooks to keep running it well after we step back.
A platform your team can run without us.

The practice

Five practices is the structure. This is how long it has been standing, and the technology it's built on.

More about Optivory

Founded: 2012FoundedAs Dynamics IT Experts, delivering Microsoft CRM for UK organisations.
Enterprise migrations: 50+Enterprise migrationsAcross banking, healthcare, higher education and the public sector.
Industries served: 10Industries servedFrom banking and healthcare to legal and immigration advice, each with its own map of the rules it answers to and the Microsoft controls that meet them.
Countries delivered in: 5+Countries delivered inUK-led, with delivery wherever a client's estate actually sits.

Technology partners

Our thinking

Tenure and headcount aren't evidence by themselves. Here's the reasoning underneath them, made inspectable, for the sectors it's written up for so far.

All sector positions

BankingThe March 2025 line most migration plans still failOperational resilience rules mean dependency mapping is no longer documentation. It is a regulatory artefact. Waves sequenced purely by dependency risk won't evidence impact tolerance through a cutover.Read the position

HealthcareWhy the DSPT stopped being a checklistThe toolkit now runs on the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework: 47 contributing outcomes and an NHS-specific objective on lawful use of patient data. 'Achieved' has to be evidenced by the platform itself.Read the position

FinOpsWhy the second cost review finds nothingThe first review always finds twenty to thirty percent. The second finds nothing, because nothing in the operating model kept it going. The interesting work is governance, not rightsizing.Read the position

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You've seen the mechanism and the position. Fifteen questions place your own estate against both.

What you've adopted, how much is used, and what happens to it once live
A score out of 100, broken down across the five practices
Five of the questions written for your sector specifically
A first step for each practice, naming the platform

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Five practices, wired into your industry.

Trusted by

Every engagement sits between two ideas: the optimal architecture, and the victory it delivers.

One accountable team runs the whole stack, from infrastructure up.

Copilot purchased is not Copilot deployed.

Industries we work with

Sequenced to your regulator's clock, not ours.

Every engagement runs one four-phase sequence.

Assess

Architect

Deliver

Operate

Fourteen years of doing this, and staying.

We'd rather show the working than claim the expertise.

Where does your platform actually stand?

Tell us what you're running.