Solution Atlas

Solution Atlas

Start with a customer conversation. Resolve into the right cloud solution.

Every dialogue starts in a technology domain. Pick the domain, narrow to a sub-domain (standard everyday need or specialised adaptation), then choose the user story closest to your customer’s situation. The right SKUs and capabilities resolve from there — ready to add, annotate, and export.

Pick a domain

7 domains · 44 storiesall with playbooks
Domain Playbooks

Infrastructure

The Azure foundation everything else runs on — how people sign in, how the network connects, how spending is controlled, how the cloud links back to the data centre. Most cost surprises, security findings on a cloud build-out, and "we need to leave VMware" conversations sit here.

8 sub-domains · 8 storiesOpen
Domain Playbooks

Data

The data platform decisions — which engine to bet on, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, or Snowflake — and the storage and governance underneath. Conversations here are usually about consolidating data sprawl, retiring an old data warehouse, or making the numbers trustworthy.

6 sub-domains · 6 storiesOpen
Domain Playbooks

Analytics

How business teams get answers from data without queuing for the data team. Self-service reporting, board packs, customer dashboards, and the governance that keeps the numbers trustworthy.

5 sub-domains · 5 storiesOpen
Domain Playbooks

AI

From Microsoft 365 Copilot to custom AI built on Azure AI Foundry — and the governance that makes any of it defensible to regulators, auditors, and customers.

6 sub-domains · 6 storiesOpen
Domain Playbooks

Security

The modern security stack — a single alerting system, identity protection, device protection — that holds together when something goes wrong, and gives the security team fewer-and-better alerts rather than more.

7 sub-domains · 7 storiesOpen
Domain Playbooks

FinOps

Keeping cloud spending visible, predictable, and accountable. Tagging discipline, forecasting, reservations, and the monthly cadence with the business that turns "how much is this costing?" from a fight into a routine conversation.

5 sub-domains · 5 storiesOpen
Domain Playbooks

Governance & Compliance

How a customer protects sensitive content, governs their data across the platforms it lives on, maps their architecture to the regulations that apply, and proves to an auditor that it all holds together.

7 sub-domains · 7 storiesOpen

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Domain

    Pick one of seven technology domains — Infrastructure, Data, Analytics, AI, Security, FinOps, Governance.

  2. Step 2

    Sub-domain

    Narrow to a sub-domain, tagged as a standard everyday need or a specialised adaptation.

  3. Step 3

    Story

    Choose the customer user story closest to the conversation in front of you. Each is a recognisable scenario.

  4. Step 4

    Resolve & export

    The story resolves to the recommended SKUs and capabilities. Build the storyline. Download as Markdown.