Our aim was that we would retain a fallback to the on-premise environment, should there be any reliability issues with the cloud ecosystem.The transition to a hybrid environment resulted in less reliance on their on-premises servers. It allowed employees to work remotely, and the move also provided an increase to service reliability, performance and redundancy. It was now possible to scale up or scale out whenever required.There was also a particular focus on migrating the on-premises SQL Server to Azure since its current configuration on their own server was a single point of failure and a cause for concern.

Having reviewed the various methods of migrating this we chose to use SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine and took advantage of the automated backups, automated patching, improved security features and the SQL best practices assessment tool.

Since successfully migrating to the new system, we have continued developing and supporting the system to the present day.Cloud technology has now matured and has become widely adopted and so the system is further integrated and depends on cloud services. As the business continues to grow, we in turn are available to adapt to it. One such example of requiring fast change was when the United Kingdom left the European single market economy (Brexit). We quickly implemented changes to handle the way goods are exported to the European market.

The business management system continues to provide a full range of business functionality to the client including: order management for both B2B and B2C customers, generating supplier purchase orders, customer invoicing, stock management, warehouse fulfilment and accounts reporting.