Cloud Computing

Design for sovereignty. Engineer for speed.

In the Kingdom, where a workload runs is now a regulatory decision, and how fast a service improves is a public test of the institution behind it. We help leaders decide what runs where, design platforms that meet residency and security obligations from the start, and stand up the product teams that keep services improving.

01The challenge

Moving workloads is the easy part.

Cloud programs often begin with a migration target and end with a larger bill. Applications move without being rationalized, landing zones go live without a governance model, and cost visibility arrives after the money is spent. The organization ends up running the same estate on someone else’s infrastructure, with more complexity and fewer excuses.

Saudi institutions face a sharper version of the problem. Data residency requirements, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls and the arrival of sovereign cloud regions give every placement decision regulatory weight. Meanwhile, citizens and customers expect digital services to improve at the pace of the best product companies. That demands product teams, engineering standards and funding models that most institutions have yet to build.

02Our approach

How we shape the platform and the teams.

Rationalize the estate first

Moving an estate as it is moves its cost and complexity too. We decide, application by application and database by database, whether to retire, consolidate, modernize or keep each one, under one placement policy across public, hybrid and sovereign options, and record every decision so the next review starts from facts.
Landing zones built for sovereignty

Residency, security and continuity rules are cheapest to meet in the first design and most expensive to retrofit. We design them into the foundation every workload lands on, defined as code and built by our Technology Services teams on the cloud you choose, so each change is versioned and an auditor can see exactly what was deployed. DevSecOps pipelines carry the same rules into every release.
Migration sequenced by risk

We move applications in waves ordered by business risk, starting where the lessons are cheap and the stakes are low. Cutover plans protect the services people depend on every day, and a wave closes only when the old environment is switched off. The same discipline consolidates data centers and plans their exit.
Applications and databases, modernized

Aging code and scattered databases carry most of the cost. We re-architect legacy applications, rationalize and consolidate databases, migrate and tune them for performance and reliability, and our Technology Services teams can run them as managed database services. Standing product teams then own the services, with funding tied to results.
Cloud operations with cost in view

A cloud bill is the sum of thousands of small engineering choices. We show teams the cost of each choice as they make it, set up the small central team that owns standards and spending rules, and run day-to-day operations with your team until your team leads them. The Cloud Center of Excellence gives that team its operating model, guardrails and FinOps discipline.

03Outcomes

What changes for the institution.

Every workload where it belongs

Each workload sits where its classification and obligations require, with controls documented in the platform itself.
Cost that tracks value

Consumption is visible by product and team, and spending decisions are made before the invoice arrives.
Improvement as a habit

Product teams release in small, safe increments and respond to real usage as it happens, without waiting for an annual upgrade cycle.
Less legacy with every wave

Each migration wave retires legacy systems and licenses, so the technology footprint shrinks as capability grows.

04Our perspective

Decide where data must live before you decide where workloads will run.

Placement decisions made one workload at a time produce an estate that is expensive to govern and hard to defend. We start with data classification and regulatory obligations, derive a placement policy from them, and let the architecture follow. Every later migration then moves faster, because the hardest questions have already been answered.

05Product

Realized through

Architecture standards and roadmaps

Architecture 360

Governs design decisions, standards and roadmaps, so every system decision serves the strategy.
Cloud governance and FinOps

Cloud Center of Excellence

Governs how any organization uses cloud, so every workload is placed on purpose and every riyal is owned.