Your strategic Microsoft 365 partnerÂ
Most organizations have reliable IT partners handling operations. What is often missing is a partner responsible for long-term direction, prioritization, and continuous development.Â
Cloudway acts as your strategic Microsoft 365 partner. We help you take control of complexity, make informed decisions, and ensure your organization evolves securely and intentionally, while supporting you in succeeding in your role.Â
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When everything is operational, nothing is strategicÂ
Day-to-day operations demand attention. Incidents, upgrades, security tasks, and user requests fill the agenda. Over time, this leaves little space to step back and ask the harder questions.
Where are we actually going with Microsoft 365 and AI
What should we prioritize next
What risks are we accepting without realizing it
How do we move forward without losing control
When no one owns these questions, progress becomes reactive. Things work, but development is slow, fragmented, and driven by short-term needs rather than long-term goals.
A role most organizationsÂ
don’t have, but needÂ
This is not a question of competence or effort. It is a question of ownership.
Most organizations lack a partner whose responsibility is to look ahead, connect initiatives, and translate Microsoft’s rapid evolution into clear, realistic direction.
Cloudway fills that role. We act as the strategic layer between leadership, IT, operational partners, and Microsoft, ensuring decisions are aligned, priorities are clear, and progress is intentional.
Strategic Partner as a ServiceÂ
Strategic Partner as a Service is a recurring advisory engagement where Cloudway acts as your long-term Microsoft 365 partner.
Instead of isolated projects or reactive decisions, you gain a continuous partnership focused on direction, maturity, and outcomes. We combine strategic advisory with hands-on expertise, ensuring plans are not only defined, but delivered.
This gives you clarity, support, and confidence in your decisions, and helps you succeed in your role as the person responsible for progress.
How we typically work with youÂ
Baseline and maturity assessment
We start by establishing a clear baseline. This includes a full assessment of your Microsoft 365 environment and ways of working across security, endpoint management, productivity, governance, compliance, and AI readiness.
You receive a maturity score and a shared understanding of where you stand today.
A clear
roadmap
Based on the assessment, we define a realistic 1–3 year roadmap. The roadmap connects technology, governance, and people, and gives you a clear basis for prioritization and decision-making.
This roadmap becomes the reference point for all further work.
Ongoing strategic
partnership
We work proactively with you to refine priorities, guide initiatives, support decision-making, and ensure progress stays aligned with the roadmap, month after month.
Pricing and engagement modelÂ
20,000 NOK
/ month
Our strategic partnership is structured as a recurring agreement, giving you predictable access to senior Cloudway expertise and a partner invested in your long-term success, not just individual tasks or short-term projects.
What you gain from the partnership
Clear ownership of Microsoft 365 and AI direction
Better prioritization and fewer reactive decisionsÂ
Reduced risk through built-in security and governanceÂ
Stronger alignment between leadership, IT, and partnersÂ
Confidence and support in your roleÂ
Measurable, continuous improvement over timeÂ
Strategic partner,
not a replacementÂ
We do not replace your operational IT partners. We work alongside them.
Cloudway takes responsibility for the strategic perspective, the roadmap, the maturity view, and the prioritization that ensures operational work leads to real development.
By holding this role, we help you create alignment, reduce friction, and ensure that everyone is working toward the same long-term goals.
Preparing your organization for what comes nextÂ
Microsoft is rapidly moving toward AI-driven ways of working. Many organizations experiment with tools like Copilot, but struggle to turn pilots into secure, scalable impact.
Cloudway uses the Frontier Firm maturity perspective to help you understand where your organization stands today and what it takes to move forward. This ensures AI adoption is grounded in governance, roles, processes, and measurable outcomes, not isolated experimentation.
Who this partnership is designed forÂ
Strategic Partner as a Service is designed for organizations and roles that:Â
Already have operational IT partnersÂ
Are responsible for long-term direction and outcomesÂ
Want to make better use of Microsoft 365 and AIÂ
Need clarity, prioritization, and trusted adviceÂ
Want support in delivering results, not just plansÂ
Start a strategic conversationÂ
If you want clarity on where you stand today and confidence in where you are going next, let’s start with a conversation.Â
Talk to us about becoming your strategic partnerÂ