Our work

delivering robust cloud native outcomes.

Client Sectors

Quality Service For any sector.

We always overcome the challenges put in front of us and deliver for our customers. Here are some example sectors we work with.

Financial Services & Insurance

We bring rich experience in delivering cloud solutions to financial and insurance clients. Understanding their need for security, compliance, scalability, and reliability, our enterprise-grade platforms prioritise security, compliance, data governance, and innovation, backed by a trusted industry track-record.

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Professional Services

In fields like construction, civil engineering, and law, we understand unique requirements, especially dealing with unstructured data volumes and retention mandates. Azure helps us manage storage, processing, and integration challenges at the scale demanded by these industries.

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Retail & Consumer goods

We excel in harnessing Azure's capabilities to support the significant retail industry shift from brick-and-mortar stores to online services, showcasing our expertise in facilitating this transition.

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Case Studies

Featured

Streamlined Azure Migration for Key LOB platform

Faced with the task of migrating a major pension administration solution from an existing data centre to Microsoft Azure, our client, one of the UK’s leading financial services groups and a major global investor has embarked upon a cloud first strategy.

Empowering Technological Evolution in Banking

A track record of impressive organic growth coupled with strategic acquisitions has propelled our banking client to a size where a uniform cloud strategy, spanning architecture, development and operations becomes imperative for the business.

Pioneering Carbon Trading Advancement

Developed (and funded) by a group of financial institutions, the client embarked on developing a blockchain-based carbon trading platform in collaboration with an external software development firm.

Empowering Container-Driven App Modernisation

The client is actively pursuing a “container centric” strategy aimed at replacing virtual machines and leverage their investment (and skills) in Red Hat OpenShift (on premise), extending this solution to Azure ensuring the seamless migration of container-based applications to the cloud environment.

Elevating Azure-Powered Retail Transformation

Our esteemed client, a prominent UK “member-owned” retail enterprise, boasts an impressive heritage spanning almost 150 years. The core of the customer's operation pivots around their online retail platform, selecting Microsoft Azure as their provider of choice.

Accelerating Azure-Powered Digital Transformation in Construction & Engineering

Our client, a leading player in the UK construction and engineering sector, boasts a century-long legacy of delivering significant UK civil engineering and national critical infrastructure projects. They selected Microsoft Azure as a cornerstone of their strategy to tap into its robust cloud native capabilities.

“Working with the BlakYaks has enabled us to address a number of “low hanging fruit” issues through the scaling of our team with their expert people, as well as to really accelerate our DevOps and IaC maturity within the team. There are some new standards and coding approaches now in place as a result of their work, that mean we can scale significantly faster in our deployments, with a confidence of the approach being in line with our desired standards. Their experience and skills brought great insight into how to tackle certain challenges, as well as implementing the solution for us, with a great deal of consideration for our context and future direction. It was great to have confidence in knowing they could take a high level task, and work through the solution applying best-practice to our setting, but without needing to be managed all the way through the work’s delivery.”

— Jonathan Hotchkiss, Head of Cloud, Shawbrook

“Working with BlakYaks has been a refreshing and rewarding experience. The Wine Society started their engagement with BlakYaks in 2022, with a view to moving all Azure support and to have a partnership for any future development or upgrades. The timelines to carry out this transition had been challenging but delivery was to schedule, with no impact to operations. Since then the relationship has grown, with a number of projects being delivered on time, within budget and without issues; the teams work very closely together and in partnership. I look forward to continued success in delivery and support, with BlakYaks.”

— Rhod Williams, Head of Information Technology, The Wine Society

“We called on BlakYaks as we needed to stand up Azure for a number of critical workloads to support our Data Centre exit plans – which were time critical (Fidelity had solely used AWS previously). They played a fundamental role, their people had the expertise, provided guidance, and helped establish the working practices we needed to deliver. They showed steadfast commitment, seamlessly integrating with our team.
Importantly – they do what they say on the tin, their deep Azure knowledge was a game changer, they patiently addressed our concerns and ensured the project’s success, collaborating with us to refine strategies, infusing innovation and accelerating the ultimate successful delivery.
Result – a happy client and a requirement delivered; I would recommend without hesitation, and hope to work with Dirk, Andy, Neil and the team again in future.”

— Duncan Welford, Director, Collaboration Technology, Fidelity International