IT Consultancy Services in the UK
Practical, vendor-honest IT consultancy from a team that runs what it recommends. Cloud strategy, architecture and project delivery, grounded in real-world experience, not theory.
Good IT consultancy should be honest and practical, not a sales pitch dressed up as advice. Managed247 consultants are practitioners who run multicloud platforms for our customers every day, so every recommendation is grounded in real-world experience. We help you decide what to do, then we can deliver it and run it, or simply hand you a clear plan to take away.
What is IT consultancy?
IT consultancy is expert, independent advice on your technology: what to change, why, in what order, and what it will cost. Good IT consulting turns a vague problem, such as rising costs, a risky migration, an ageing architecture or a stalled project, into a clear, prioritised plan you can act on.
Managed247 covers cloud strategy and migration, IT architecture, and project delivery. Because we also run managed services, our advice is grounded in what actually works in production, rather than theory on a slide.
Where we help
Migrating to the Cloud
Workload-by-workload assessment and phased migration plans for Microsoft, Google and AWS, with rollback baked in.
IT Architecture
Independent reviews against well-architected frameworks, with prioritised cost and resilience recommendations.
IT Project Management
Senior project managers and engineers who deliver to a fixed date, then hand over cleanly to managed services.
Advice you can trust: vendor-honest and practitioner-led
Two things make our consultancy different. First, we are vendor-honest: we recommend what is best for your business, not the platform that is easiest for us to sell. Second, our consultants are practitioners. They design and run multicloud environments for real customers every day, so their recommendations are tested in production, not drawn from a slide deck.
When the plan is agreed, you choose what happens next. We can deliver it and move you straight into managed services, or hand it over for your own team to run. Either way, the plan and the reasoning behind it are yours to keep.
Why businesses choose Managed247 for IT consultancy
- Practitioners, not theorists. Our consultants run the platforms they advise on, every day.
- Vendor-honest. We recommend the right path for your business, not the easiest one to sell.
- Multicloud and independent. Certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS, so the advice is not tied to one vendor.
- Delivery, not just slideware. We can implement what we recommend, and run it afterwards.
- Independently assured. ISO 9001, 14001, 20000-1 and 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, FSQS-registered.
- Award-winning. CRN Managed Service Provider of the Year (a rare Triple Crown), Sunday Times Tech Track 100, FT 1000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
IT consultancy for regulated, always-on businesses
We advise organisations where the wrong technology decision is expensive, with sector experience in finance and banking, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, professional services, accounting, legal, construction and engineering and not-for-profit, and local teams for London, Birmingham, Manchester and Milton Keynes. Consultancy is one of four services we run end to end, alongside managed IT services UK, Cloud and Cyber Security.
IT consultancy FAQs
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What is IT consultancy?
IT consultancy is expert, independent advice on your technology: what to change, why, in what order and what it will cost. It turns a vague problem into a clear, prioritised plan you can act on, covering areas such as cloud strategy, architecture and project delivery.
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What does IT consulting include?
For Managed247 it includes cloud strategy and migration, independent IT architecture reviews, and project delivery. The aim is always the same: a practical, prioritised plan, and the option to have us deliver and run it.
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How is Managed247's IT consultancy different?
We are vendor-honest, so we recommend what is best for your business rather than the easiest thing to sell, and our consultants are practitioners who run the platforms they advise on. The advice is tested in production, and we can deliver it as well as recommend it.
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Can you plan and run a cloud migration?
Yes. We assess your environment first, then migrate workload by workload in planned stages with rollback built in, across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS.
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Do you provide IT architecture reviews?
Yes. We run independent reviews against well-architected frameworks and give you prioritised recommendations on cost, resilience and security.
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What happens when a project ends?
Our senior project managers deliver to a fixed date and hand over cleanly, either into Managed247 managed services or back to your own team, so nothing is left half-finished.
What our customers say.
The awards back up the numbers.
Managed Service Provider of the Year 2016The Channel AwardsManaged Service Provider of the Year 2017The Channel AwardsManaged Service Provider of the Year 2018The Channel Awards
Innovative MSP Enterprise of the YearChannel Awards
Best Small Enterprise Managed Service ProviderIT Services & Support Awards · FinalistManaged Service Solution of the YearEuropean IT & Software Excellence Awards
Services Company of the YearUK IT Industry Awards
Tech Track 100
FT 1000 Europe's Fastest Growing Companies
Technology Fast 50Have a project that needs a second opinion?
Book a 30-minute scoping call and work with one of our IT service professionals to get an honest read on the work and the right way to deliver it.
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