Cloud, packaged. Fixed-price diagnostic, blueprint, or pilot, with a credit clause that refunds the fee against any migration you commission.

Probably not. The Foundations Diagnostic is built for organisations with five or more workloads, multi-site practices, or boards comparing migration partners who need a written TCO comparison before they commit. If you run a single-site dental, medical, or allied health practice and the decision to migrate is already made, skip the diagnostic. Book a free 30-minute scoping call and we will scope and quote the migration directly. Simple practice migrations are typically a single fit call, a written quote within five business days, and execution sized to what you actually need.

That is the buyer the Foundations Diagnostic is built for. The deliverable is a defendable answer to "should we move?" rather than a sales pitch for "you should move now." The TCO comparison includes a stay-as-is case modelled at three years of expected refresh and operating cost; if that case wins on your numbers, the report says so in writing. We have run engagements where the recommendation was "stay on-premises, harden the existing stack, revisit in 18 months." Your fee buys the diagnostic, not the conclusion.

Free assessments are marketing tools sold by the vendor whose product wins regardless of your answer. The Microsoft assessment ends in Azure. The Rackspace assessment ends in Rackspace. The big-four consultancy assessment ends in a six-figure transformation programme. Our assessment is paid, fixed-scope, and vendor-independent across private cloud, Azure, and colocation; the recommendation lands on what genuinely fits your risk and cost profile. The fee filters tyre-kickers and pays for the discovery work properly rather than burying it in the migration markup.

Yes. PACS / RIS / EMR migration economics are a Trucell day-job; we run radiology, multi-site clinical, and hospital corporate IT migrations regularly and have the run-state data to back the model. The TCO accounts for vendor licence portability, study storage cost curves at scale (cold-tier matters), the latency budget your radiologists will tolerate, and the data egress charges nobody quotes you up-front. If your application vendor has migration-specific gotchas (we have hit most of them), the report names them.

Honest answer: yes and no. We have a bias toward whichever destination wins the TCO comparison on your specific workloads, your data residency requirements, and your risk profile. We sell both. We have customers in private cloud who would lose on Azure (high constant compute, predictable workload), and customers in Azure who would lose in private cloud (elastic workload, heavy Microsoft 365 + Sentinel integration). The report shows the workings; you can second-guess any assumption.

Often more useful, because the gotchas you have not hit yet are the expensive ones. We have repeatedly reviewed mid-flight migrations and found landing zone designs that will fail an IRAP review at year two, identity federations that will not scale past the first M&A event, and cost models that did not account for log retention or backup egress. The Blueprint at this point sequences the remaining migration around the constraints you already accept and surfaces the ones your current partner is not flagging.

Encouraged. The report is yours; the methodology is documented openly; the assumptions are annotated. Hand it to any IRAP-endorsed practitioner, any ISO 27001 lead auditor, your insurer's nominated reviewer, or a competing MSP. Our standing offer: if a qualified second reviewer finds a material factual error in the report, we re-issue the report at no fee. We have not had to do this yet; the offer exists to make the diagnostic verifiable, not because we expect it.

Yes. The on-page Pay AU$6,500 button is a convenience for buyers who want to start tomorrow without procurement. If your procurement framework requires a PO, book the scoping call; we will issue a Trucell quote against your standard PO terms, net 30, with a kick-off date booked the same week the PO is raised. The Migration Blueprint and Pilot Migration tiers are PO-only by default; the on-page Pay button is currently Foundations Diagnostic only.