Navisite’s Oracle-to-Azure Assessment and POC removes uncertainty by validating your migration approach before production workloads move. Through a structured, four-phase engagement, our experts assess your environment, model total cost, and prove that your Oracle workloads will run as expected on Azure.

We begin with a collaborative workshop involving key stakeholders to evaluate your current Oracle environment and migration objectives.

During this phase, we will:

• Define migration goals, challenges, and success criteria
• Review your existing IT estate, dependencies, and requirements
• Identify Oracle workloads best suited for Azure
• Determine scope, effort, and engineering requirements

Following the workshop, we analyze performance using Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports to accurately size workloads for Azure.

Based on assessment findings, Navisite delivers a comprehensive TCO analysis to guide strategic decisions.

This includes:

Platform & Migration Approach Recommendations

We recommend the most appropriate strategy for each workload:

• Rehost – Lift and shift Oracle workloads to Azure with minimal changes
• Re-platform – Modernize components within the Oracle stack to leverage Azure services
• Refactor – Move off Oracle-managed databases to Microsoft or open-source platforms for greater flexibility and cloud-native benefits

Architecture & Design Guidance

• Azure architecture recommendations
• Detailed deployment schematics illustrating your target Azure environment

Licensing & Cost Analysis

• Oracle licensing impact and requirements on Azure
• Estimated monthly Azure infrastructure and platform costs
• Migration timeline and professional services cost estimates

To ensure technical and operational confidence, Navisite builds a Proof of Concept on Azure.

Two options are available:

Standard POC

• Migration of a non-production Oracle environment to Azure
• Validation that workloads operate as expected

Real Application Testing (RAT)

For mission-critical workloads, Navisite conducts in-depth testing by:

• Recording real production workloads
• Replaying them on Azure under real-world conditions
• Validating performance, capacity, speed, and user experience

The engagement concludes with a detailed recommendations report that provides clear guidance for moving forward.

You’ll receive:

• Findings from the POC and/or RAT
• Final infrastructure and architecture recommendations
• Cost breakdowns and operational considerations
• Guidance on administrative skill requirements post-migration