A cloud migration assessment that ends in a decision, not a slide deck.
Most migration programs fail in the planning gap: the inventory exists somewhere, but nobody trusts it enough to commit. A cloud migration assessment closes that gap by turning read-only discovery into a scoped, costed plan with a pilot boundary you can actually sign.
What a usable assessment produces.
The deliverable is not a document — it is a decision-ready evidence base. These are the outputs that separate a real assessment from a discovery export.
- Inventory — the authoritative list of objects, mailboxes, sites, and workloads in scope, from read-only discovery
- Dependency map — which items must move together, and which block others
- Readiness findings — grouped by action: ready, review, remediate, defer
- Risk register — the topology, permission, and timing risks with owners
- Pilot boundary — the smallest representative scope with explicit acceptance criteria and a rollback owner
From discovery to a defensible plan.
The sequence matters more than the tooling. Each stage feeds the next, and skipping one produces a plan nobody should trust.
How BridgeAD runs the assessment.
BridgeAD discovery and assessment are read-only: they inventory and analyze without modifying source or target systems. Findings become an execution scope only after you approve them.
- Read-only discovery across AD, Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams
- Readiness findings categorized ready, review, remediation, or deferred — never a single opaque score
- Duplicate and collision detection before any scope is frozen
- A pilot boundary with acceptance criteria and rollback ownership, agreed before execution
- Exportable findings you can act on whether or not you continue with BridgeAD
Common questions.
What does a cloud migration assessment produce?
A usable assessment produces an inventory of what exists, a dependency map, readiness findings grouped by action (ready, review, remediate, defer), a risk register, and a scoped pilot boundary with acceptance criteria — not a slide deck.
How long does a cloud migration assessment take?
It depends on estate size and access. A focused assessment of a representative scope — a forest pair or a workload subset — typically completes in days once read access is granted, and is the fastest reliable input to a migration decision.
Does the assessment change anything in our environment?
No. BridgeAD discovery and assessment are read-only. They inventory and analyze without modifying source or target systems; execution begins only after the scope is approved and a pilot boundary is set.
Make the migration decision from evidence.
Bring one representative scope — a forest pair, a tenant, or a workload subset. You get findings, a dependency map, and a pilot boundary you can defend.