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Explore how SQL Server 2025 strengthens enterprise security through enforced secure defaults, identity integration, encryption, and governance assurance across hybrid environments.Key Takeaways SQL Server 2025 shifts enterprise security from optional hardening to...
Explore how SQL Server 2025’s built-in intelligence helps organisations optimise performance, gain deeper insight, and reduce data-platform complexity.Key Takeaways SQL Server 2025 shifts optimisation from a reactive activity to an intelligence-driven discipline....
Explore how SQL Server 2025 reshapes the modern data platform with AI-ready capabilities, developer-first enhancements, hybrid modernisation, and practical upgrade readiness guidance.Key Takeaways SQL Server 2025 represents a shift from database upgrade to platform...
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Still paying Microsoft for Azure by credit card? Discover why finance and IT leaders prefer the CSP model for predictable billing, built-in partner support, cost optimisation, and long-term value. Key Takeways Credit card billing creates risk - Failed or expired...
On July 9, 2024, support for SQL Server 2014 ended. That means the end of regular security updates. Don't let your infrastructure and applications go unprotected. We're here to help you migrate to current versions for greater security, performance and innovation....
On July 12, 2022, support for SQL Server 2012 ended. That means the end of regular security updates. Don't let your infrastructure and applications go unprotected. We're here to help you migrate to current versions for greater security, performance and innovation....
NEWSFLASHES
As the year draws to a close, we would like to express our appreciation to our clients, partners, and colleagues for the trust and collaboration that have defined the year. We wish you and your teams a restful festive season and a successful year ahead, and we look...
Ascent Technology announces a four-part SQL Server 2025 blog series covering AI-driven intelligence, Fabric integration, security enhancements, and the future of the modern data platform. Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is set to become one of the most impactful releases in...
Standardised pricing will replace Microsoft’s long-standing tiered discount model - prompting many organisations to review the CSP programme for its cost savings, licensing flexibility, and simplified management. Microsoft Tiered EA/MPSA Pricing Ends Microsoft will...
CLIENT CASE STUDIES
First Distribution’s Database Administration, Security and Compliance needs lead it to trusted advisor, Ascent Technology. For any large organisation, Database Administration (DBA) is a vital part of maintaining their Data Platform Operations effectively. As it has...
When Bidfood SA chose to modernise and migrate its data platform to Microsoft Azure, it turned to Ascent Technology for help. In a world that is digitally transforming, it is more vital than ever to an organisation’s success to utilise the latest platforms to drive...
A Windows Server and SQL Server consolidation, optimisation and migration to Microsoft Azure enables the company to reduce costs, modernise its data platform and boost its innovation capabilities. As an operator running two distinct betting businesses, Phumelela...
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
Ascent Technology continues its strong showing in the Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, as a finalist in the Data and Analytics Partner of the Year award. Finalist Data and Analytics Partner of the Year "It is always gratifying to be recognised by Microsoft as one...
Ascent Technology delivers Data Platform Modernisation Consulting that repositions enterprise data foundations for long-term resilience, governance integrity, and strategic growth. We guide organisations beyond constrained legacy environments toward modern platforms built for evolving operational demands and data-driven decision-making.
Through structured assessment, architectural redesign, and strategic implementation planning, we modernise core data infrastructure while strengthening performance, security, and governance controls. Our approach aligns technology investment with business objectives – particularly where legacy complexity, cloud transition pressures, or regulatory demands require disciplined architectural clarity – ensuring that transformation is deliberate, measurable, and sustainable.
Positioned within Ascent Technology’s Modernise – Optimise – Protect framework, Data Platform Modernisation establishes the architectural foundation required for operational excellence and long-term digital competitiveness.
Effective modernisation begins with structured evaluation and strategic alignment. We assess legacy architectures, integration dependencies, governance maturity, and operational risk to define a clear transformation roadmap grounded in enterprise priorities. Our advisory-led methodology establishes measurable milestones, architectural guardrails, and disciplined execution pathways – ensuring modernisation initiatives progress with clarity, accountability, and controlled risk exposure.
A clearly defined transformation roadmap that aligns platform investment to measurable enterprise outcomes and sustained architectural integrity.
We design deliberately engineered target-state architectures that unify data, integration, governance, and analytics into cohesive platform ecosystems. Our approach replaces fragmented technology stacks with structurally coherent designs built for scalability, resilience, and long-term adaptability. By aligning architectural direction to enterprise strategy and operational realities, we ensure platform redesign strengthens performance, interoperability, and sustainable growth.
A deliberately engineered data architecture that unifies systems, strengthens resilience, and positions the enterprise for scalable, future-ready performance.
Modern enterprises require flexible platform strategies that balance on-premise stability with cloud scalability. We modernise data estates through structured hybrid and cloud-aligned transformation strategies – ensuring workload optimisation, architectural consistency, and disciplined governance across environments. Our methodology mitigates migration risk while enabling scalable infrastructure models designed for performance, cost governance, and operational continuity.
A balanced hybrid and cloud-aligned data platform that enhances scalability, optimises performance, and preserves governance control across environments.
We modernise integration architectures to eliminate fragmented pipelines and manual dependencies, replacing brittle workflows with scalable, automated frameworks built for reliability and adaptability. We embed orchestration governance, observability, and performance engineering directly into the platform – ensuring resilient, auditable data flows aligned to enterprise growth.
A cohesive and orchestrated integration architecture that reduces operational fragility, enhances data flow transparency, and enables scalable, high-performance platform operations.
Modernisation without governance introduces new risk. We embed security, compliance, and data governance directly into platform architecture – ensuring modern environments enhance enterprise control rather than erode it. Our approach incorporates structured access models, data accountability frameworks, continuous auditability, and policy-aligned oversight into the modernisation lifecycle, enabling organisations to evolve their platforms while maintaining disciplined regulatory and operational integrity across hybrid and cloud environments.
A governance-anchored data platform that strengthens security resilience, enforces accountable oversight, and sustains regulatory confidence at enterprise scale.
Enduring modernisation demands the disciplined simplification of legacy complexity. We assess redundant platforms, fragmented technology stacks, and unsupported environments that introduce architectural risk and operational drag – defining phased rationalisation and decommissioning strategies that safeguard historical data integrity while restoring structural coherence to the platform landscape. Our approach ensures consolidation is deliberate, auditable, and aligned to long-term architectural direction rather than reactive cost containment.
A structurally simplified data platform that reduces architectural fragility, strengthens operational control, and restores strategic clarity to the enterprise technology estate.
Modernisation establishes the structural foundation for sustained platform stewardship – not a one-time project milestone. We design operating models that formalise ownership, governance accountability, performance oversight, and cost governance across modern data ecosystems. By embedding continuous optimisation disciplines into platform management – spanning capacity strategy, performance engineering, and lifecycle governance – we ensure data platforms remain resilient, efficient, and strategically aligned as enterprise demands evolve.
An institutionalised operating model that preserves architectural integrity, reinforces governance accountability, and enables continuous, high-performance platform evolution at enterprise scale.
Contact Us to discuss your modernisation strategy and next steps.
Ascent Technology delivers data platform modernisation at enterprise scale – unifying architecture, integration, governance, and cloud alignment into cohesive transformation programmes rather than isolated technical initiatives. Our consultants operate across the full data ecosystem, ensuring complex, multi-domain estates are redesigned with structural clarity and executed with disciplined accountability.
We are engaged in modernisation programmes where architectural coherence, regulatory assurance, and operational continuity are non-negotiable. By aligning platform transformation directly to enterprise strategy – while maintaining rigorous risk governance and performance oversight – we distinguish our approach from vendor-led or tool-centric implementations.
As an ISO 27001:2022 certified organisation, we embed security, compliance, and governance discipline into every engagement, ensuring modernised platforms enhance enterprise control and resilience.
Supporting organisations across South Africa, EMEA, the United Kingdom, and North America, we deliver consistent, enterprise-grade modernisation across diverse regulatory landscapes and operational environments.
Our Data Platform Modernisation Services operate within Ascent Technology’s Modernise – Optimise – Protect framework – ensuring structural platform renewal, performance engineering, and governance assurance advance in disciplined alignment across the enterprise data estate.
Modernise
We modernise enterprise data foundations by re-engineering legacy architectures, simplifying fragmented technology landscapes, and establishing scalable operating models engineered for long-term resilience and adaptability.
Optimise
We optimise platform performance and operational discipline through performance engineering, integration refinement, and cost governance – enhancing reliability, scalability, and decision velocity across evolving data ecosystems.
Protect
We protect governance integrity and regulatory assurance by embedding security architecture, policy-aligned oversight, and continuous accountability into modernised platforms – reinforcing enterprise resilience and sustained control.
We structure Data Platform Modernisation engagements to align with enterprise scale, governance maturity, and transformation ambition – ensuring disciplined delivery without compromising architectural integrity.
Strategic Assessment Engagements
Advisory-led engagements that evaluate platform architecture, governance posture, integration maturity, and operational risk – defining clear modernisation roadmaps with prioritised milestones and measurable accountability.
Targeted Modernisation Initiatives
Structured transformation programmes focused on specific platform domains – including architectural redesign, integration evolution, governance uplift, or hybrid transition – delivered with controlled execution and performance oversight.
Enterprise Modernisation Programmes
Comprehensive, multi-phase transformation initiatives that unify architecture, integration, governance, and operating model redesign across the full enterprise data estate – establishing cohesive, future-ready platforms engineered for sustained performance and resilience.
Modernising a data platform demands architectural precision, governance discipline, and structured execution.
Whether you are defining a strategic roadmap or advancing a multi-phase transformation programme, Ascent Technology provides the enterprise expertise required to modernise with clarity, control, and measurable long-term impact.
Contact Us today to Architect Your Data Platform Modernisation Journey.