Enterprise Technology Services
Six services with one analytical standard.
Every service RJV Technologies delivers is built on the same foundation where structural analysis is before strategic recommendation where others apply inherited frameworks, we identify root causes.
The difference is not incremental but it is categorical.
Services on this page
- 01 — Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery Architecture
- 02 — Cloud Migration & Infrastructure Strategy
- 03 — AI Systems Engineering & Digital Transformation
- 04 — Cybersecurity & Enterprise Resilience
All engagements are fixed scope with named deliverables under defined timelines and a total cost agreed before work begins.
No open ended retainers.
No templates dressed as strategy.
IT Downtime Cost
£14,056/min
Average across all sizes. Enterprise: £23,750 per min.
ITIC 2025.
Digital Transformation Failure
65 to 70%
Programmes failing to deliver returns.
McKinsey, Gartner, BCG.
Backups Failing on Recovery
58%
Plans exist and architecture ensures they work.
Datto 2025.
Average Data Breach Cost
$4.88M
AI accelerated attacks up 44% year on year.
IBM X Force 2026.
Our Phase Framework
Every engagement we deliver follows this four phase methodology where each phase produces a specific, named deliverable with clear acceptance criteria and we do not provide recommendations that cannot be implemented, tested and measured.
01
Discover
Structured audit of your current infrastructure, policies, team capabilities and regulatory obligations.
We document what exists, what is missing and what is at risk.
This phase produces a gap analysis with quantified exposure and not a generic checklist.
Deliverable: Risk & Gap Analysis Report
02
Architect
Design the target state architecture, recovery procedures, migration roadmap or security posture.
Every architectural decision is documented with rationale, alternatives considered, cost implications and compliance mapping.
No black boxes, no vendor lock in, no assumptions left unstated.
Deliverable: Architecture & Roadmap Document
03
Implement
Execute the roadmap with named owners, defined milestones and clear accountability at every stage.
We work alongside your teams, not in isolation.
Implementation includes configuration, testing under realistic conditions and validation against the acceptance criteria established in Phase 02.
Deliverable: Validated Implementation
04
Sustain
Knowledge transfer, team training, documentation handover and establishment of an ongoing testing cadence.
We measure results against the targets set in Phase 01 and ensure your teams can maintain, test and improve everything independently.
Consultancies that create dependency fail their clients.
Deliverable: Handover & Continuous Improvement Plan
01
Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery Architecture
Typical Timeline
Audit: 5 working days
Full programme: 6 to 12 weeks
Investment Range
SME: £10,000 to £50,000
Mid-market: £50,000 to £250,000
Enterprise: £250,000 to £2M+
Regulatory Coverage
ISO 22301 · GDPR · NIS2 · DORA
FCA · PRA · NHS DSPT · CQC
GovAssure · NCSC CAF · NERC CIP
Why this service exists
In a 2025 survey of 1,000 senior technology executives worldwide, every single respondent confirmed their company lost revenue due to IT outages in the previous year. Not most companies.
All of them.
IT downtime now costs an average of £14,056 per minute across all organisation sizes.
For large enterprises, that figure rises to £23,750 per minute.
Yet only 54% of organisations have a documented, organisation wide disaster recovery plan.
Among small businesses the figure is far worse where 75% operate without any plan at all.
Even among those that do have plans, 71% fail to test their disaster recovery protocols adequately and 58% of backups fail during actual recovery attempts.
The gap between having a plan and having a plan that works is where most organisations are exposed.
Our approach
Our business continuity practice follows the six stage framework published in our comprehensive business continuity planning guide:
Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Strategy Development, Plan Documentation, Testing and Validation, and Continuous Improvement.
Each stage produces a specific deliverable that feeds into the next, creating an integrated programme rather than a collection of disconnected documents.
We begin with a Business Impact Analysis that maps every critical process to determine the maximum tolerable downtime for each and calculates the financial, reputational and regulatory cost of each hour without that process.
This drives everything where it sets your RTO and RPO targets, determines which systems need hot standby failover versus warm or cold sites and allocates budget where it will have the greatest impact on reducing total exposure.
Recovery architecture is designed with deterministic guardrails.
When systems are failing and data integrity is at risk, organisations need recovery processes that behave predictably and verifiably.
We combine AI detection and monitoring with deterministic, pre validated recovery procedures and automated runbooks that execute in seconds rather than the hours it takes human operators to work through manual processes.
Cloud disaster recovery can reduce recovery time objectives by up to 50% compared to traditional on premises solutions.
We design cloud first recovery architectures that can be provisioned in minutes, tested without affecting production systems and operated from a different geographic region than your primary infrastructure.
What we deliver
Business continuity audit and gap analysis with quantified exposure by system, process and business unit with risk ranked prioritisation
Business impact analysis with RTO/RPO targets with maximum tolerable downtime per critical process with financial cost modelling
Disaster recovery architecture design with hot/warm/cold standby selection, cloud vs on premises, network topology, failover sequences
Cloud-based DRaaS implementation with provider selection, configuration, data replication, failover testing, geographic redundancy
Automated failover with deterministic guardrails with pre validated runbooks, infrastructure as code templates, automated health checks
Tabletop exercises and full-scale simulations with quarterly tabletop exercises with leadership, bi-annual full simulations under realistic conditions
Third-party dependency assessment with supplier continuity plans, contractual recovery commitments, supply chain risk mapping
Regulatory compliance mapping with ISO 22301, GDPR Article 32, NIS2, DORA, sector requirements mapped to your specific obligations
Knowledge transfer and team training with complete documentation, role training, recovery owner onboarding
Read the full framework: Business Continuity Planning With The Complete 2026 Enterprise Guide →
02
Cloud Migration & Infrastructure Strategy
Typical Timeline
Assessment: 2 to 3 weeks
Migration programme: 8 to 24 weeks
Investment Range
SME: £100,000 to £500,000
Mid market: £500,000 to £2M
Enterprise: £8M to £15M+
Platform Coverage
AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud
Hybrid · Multi cloud · Sovereign Cloud
Why this service exists
Enterprise cloud migration spending will exceed $947 billion globally in 2026 and yet Flexera’s State of the Cloud Report consistently shows that organisations waste approximately 31% of that investment across orphaned resources, oversized instances and lack of commitment planning.
Meanwhile, 89% of organisations now use multi cloud strategies and 92% use a combination of public and private cloud providers.
This introduces significant complexity in governance, security policy enforcement and cost management that most organisations are unprepared to handle without structural guidance.
Our approach: The Four Migration Strategies
We evaluate each workload individually using the four enterprise cloud migration approaches documented in our comprehensive cloud migration guide:
Lift and Shift (52% of migrations, fastest but limits cloud native benefits),
Re Platform (optimise for cloud without full rebuild),
Refactor (rebuild for cloud native, highest long term ROI) and
Replace (retire legacy entirely, adopt SaaS, eliminates technical debt).
FinOps governance is established before the first workload moves, not after the first shocking invoice arrives and providing tagging and cost allocation visibility, automated right sizing recommendations, commitment discount strategies and policy driven guardrails.
Organisations with mature FinOps practices typically reduce cloud waste by 20 to 30% within the first year.
What we deliver
Cloud readiness assessment and workload classification where every application scored against the four migration strategies with recommended approach and cost projection
Multi cloud architecture design with provider selection per workload, network topology, identity federation, data flow mapping across AWS, Azure and/or GCP
Phased migration roadmap with wave planning, dependency mapping, rollback procedures, parallel-run validation, cutover scheduling
FinOps implementation and cost governance with tagging taxonomy, cost allocation dashboards, right-sizing automation, commitment planning, waste alerting
Sovereign and hybrid cloud compliance with data residency mapping, regulatory jurisdiction analysis, private cloud integration for sensitive workloads
Security posture design with cloud native security configuration, shared responsibility model mapping, configuration drift monitoring
Post migration optimisation with 90 day review, performance benchmarking, cost optimisation sweep, capacity planning for growth
Read the full framework: Enterprise Cloud Migration — The Complete 2026 Strategy Guide →
03
AI Systems Engineering & Digital Transformation Strategy
Typical Timeline
AI readiness: 2 to 4 weeks
Transformation programme: 12 to 52 weeks
Regulatory Context
EU AI Act (Aug 2026, 7% turnover)
GDPR · Data Protection Act 2018
Sector specific AI governance
Why this service exists
Global spending on digital transformation will reach $4.1 trillion in 2026 and yet 65% of transformation programmes fail to deliver their expected returns.
The failure rate is not a technology problem but it is a strategy, architecture, governance and human capital problem that happens to involve technology.
Organisations that treat digital transformation as an IT project rather than a business transformation are the same ones that appear in the 65% failure statistic.
Adding urgency to every AI decision, the EU AI Act reaches full enforcement in August 2026 with penalties of up to 7% of global turnover for non compliance.
Retrofitting compliance onto a poorly architected AI environment is significantly more expensive than building it in from the start.
Our approach: Deterministic AI Architecture
We design AI systems with deterministic guardrails.
When an AI system is making decisions that affect patient care, financial transactions, infrastructure operations or citizen services, it must behave predictably and verifiably.
Probabilistic models are valuable for detection and pattern recognition but the actions taken on their outputs must pass through deterministic validation layers that can be audited, tested and verified.
Our digital transformation methodology addresses the five pillars that separate the 35% who succeed from the 65% who do not: strategic alignment, architecture readiness, data governance, change management and measurement rigour and with ROI defined before the programme starts and measured continuously throughout.
What we deliver
AI readiness assessment and use case identification with evaluation of data maturity, infrastructure capacity, team capabilities and regulatory obligations mapped to viable AI applications
Deterministic AI architecture design with system topology, guardrail layers, validation pipelines, human in the loop decision points, audit trail requirements
EU AI Act compliance mapping with risk classification per system, documentation requirements, governance framework design, conformity assessment preparation
Agentic workflow design and orchestration with multi agent architecture, tool integration, privilege boundaries, monitoring and kill switch mechanisms
Data pipeline architecture and governance with data classification, quality frameworks, lineage tracking, access controls, storage tiering, retention policies
Digital transformation roadmap with ROI framework with phased implementation plan with defined milestones, success metrics, risk gates and investment allocation
Change management and team enablement with skills assessment, training programme design, role transition planning, communication strategy, adoption measurement
Read the full framework: Digital Transformation — The 2026 Enterprise Playbook →
04
Cybersecurity & Enterprise Resilience
Threat Context (2026)
44% surge in AI accelerated attacks
$4.88M average breach cost
49% more active ransomware groups
98% experienced cloud security breach
Why this service exists
The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally shifted.
IBM’s 2026 X Force Threat Intelligence Index documents a 44% increase in attacks exploiting basic security gaps with AI tools accelerating how quickly attackers discover and weaponise vulnerabilities.
Active ransomware groups have increased 49% year on year.
The average cost of a data breach has reached $4.88 million.
The central paradox is this: 94% of businesses report improved security after moving to the cloud and yet 98% have experienced at least one cloud security breach in the past 18 months.
Gartner estimates that up to 99% of cloud security breaches through 2025 were the customer’s fault which is primarily caused by misconfigurations rather than platform vulnerabilities.
The shared responsibility model means everything above the infrastructure layer remains the customer’s responsibility.
Our approach: Five-Layer Defence Architecture
Our cybersecurity practice is built on the five layer defence architecture published in our 2026 defence playbook:
Identity and Access (zero trust architecture, continuous verification, micro segmentation),
Network and Infrastructure (next generation firewalls, encrypted micro tunnels, east west traffic monitoring),
Application and Data (secure development lifecycle, API security, data classification and encryption),
AI and Automation (AI threat detection, behavioural analytics, automated incident response) and Governance and Compliance (policy enforcement, regulatory mapping, audit readiness, board-level reporting).
Zero trust has become the essential security model because the traditional network perimeter dissolves entirely in cloud and hybrid environments under continuous verification of every access request based on identity, device health and behavioural context regardless of where the request originates.
What we deliver
Security posture assessment and gap analysis with comprehensive audit across all five defence layers with quantified risk exposure and prioritised remediation
Zero trust architecture design and implementation with identity verification, device trust, micro-segmentation, continuous authentication, least-privilege access
Cloud security configuration audit with misconfiguration detection across AWS, Azure and GCP, security group analysis, IAM policy review
AI agent security assessment with privilege boundary analysis, tool access review, orchestration security, kill-switch mechanisms for autonomous agents
Incident response planning and tabletop exercises with response playbooks, escalation procedures, communication plans, quarterly simulation exercises
Regulatory compliance mapping with NIS2, GDPR, DORA, FCA, PRA, NHS DSPT, NCSC CAF and sector specific frameworks mapped to your infrastructure
Security awareness and phishing simulation with role training programmes, simulated phishing campaigns, measurement and improvement cycles
Third party risk assessment with supplier security evaluation, contractual security requirements, supply chain compromise monitoring
Read the full playbook: Cybersecurity Landscape 2026 — Your Defence Playbook →
Engagement Models & Pricing
We provide fixed price quotes for defined engagements and do not operate on open ended retainer models where every proposal includes a clear scope, named deliverables, acceptance criteria, timeline and total cost and if we cannot define what we are delivering and what it will cost before we start, we are not ready to start
Fixed-Scope Engagement
A defined project with clear start and end dates, specified deliverables and a fixed total cost.
Suitable for audits, architecture designs, migration roadmaps and compliance assessments.
Payment structured as 50% on commencement and 50% on delivery.
This is our default engagement model.
Best for: Audits, assessments, architecture design, roadmaps
Programme Delivery
Multi phase programmes where each phase has defined deliverables, acceptance criteria and cost.
Phases can be commissioned independently which you are never locked into a programme that is not delivering value.
Monthly reporting against agreed milestones with full transparency on progress and next actions.
Best for: Full BC/DR programmes, cloud migrations, transformations
Managed Resilience
Ongoing continuity management including quarterly testing, plan maintenance, threat intelligence updates, regulatory change monitoring and incident response coordination.
The only model with a recurring element, structured as a fixed monthly fee with clearly defined service levels and annual review cycles.
Best for: Ongoing testing, monitoring, compliance maintenance
Frequently Asked Questions
What industries do you work with?
We serve healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and engineering, education, government and public sector and the third sector.
Each sector faces different regulatory requirements, threat profiles and recovery priorities.
A healthcare organisation subject to NHS DSPT and CQC requirements faces a fundamentally different challenge than a financial services firm under FCA, PRA and DORA requirements.
We calibrate every engagement to the specific operational reality of the industry.
See our Industries page for full sector detail.
How long does a typical engagement take?
Timelines vary by service and scope.
A business continuity audit typically delivers results within five working days.
A full disaster recovery architecture programme runs six to twelve weeks.
Cloud migration roadmaps take four to eight weeks for assessment and planning with implementation spanning eight to twenty four weeks depending on workload complexity.
AI readiness assessments take two to four weeks with transformation programmes running twelve to fifty two weeks.
We provide clear timelines in every proposal and hold ourselves accountable to them.
How is pricing structured?
We provide fixed price quotes for defined engagements.
Cost is determined by scope complexity, sector specific regulatory requirements, number of systems and locations in scope and the depth of implementation support required.
Typical investment ranges from £10,000 to £50,000 for SME continuity audits, £50,000 to £250,000 for mid market programmes and £250,000 to £2 million or more for enterprise scale engagements.
Every proposal includes a complete breakdown of what is included, what is excluded and what the total investment will be.
Can you help with regulatory compliance — NIS2, DORA or the EU AI Act?
Yes. Regulatory compliance is integrated into every service we deliver, not treated as a separate workstream.
For NIS2, we map your existing security measures against the directive’s requirements across risk management, incident reporting, supply chain security and governance obligations.
For DORA, we design the ICT risk management framework, incident response procedures and third party oversight programme required of in scope financial entities.
For the EU AI Act, which reaches full enforcement in August 2026 with penalties of up to 7% of global turnover, we conduct risk classification for each AI system you deploy, design the governance framework and prepare conformity assessment documentation.
What differentiates RJV Technologies from larger consultancies?
Three things.
First, fixed scope engagements with named deliverables and fixed costs and not open ended advisory retainers that consume budget without moving the needle.
Second, structural analysis before strategic recommendation where we do not begin with an inherited framework and map your organisation to it.
We find the correct starting point for your specific problem.
Third, every recommendation we make is backed by the same primary research and sector specific data we publish openly on our Insights blog.
Our published research covering business continuity, cloud migration, digital transformation and cybersecurity demonstrates the depth of analysis we bring to every engagement.
How do you ensure knowledge transfer so our team can operate independently afterwards?
Consultancies that create dependency fail their clients.
Every engagement we deliver includes complete documentation of all architectures, configurations and procedures;
role specific training for the team members who will own the systems going forward;
a handover session that walks through every deliverable and a continuous improvement plan that establishes the testing cadence, review cycle and update procedures your teams will follow independently.
We measure success by how well your organisation can operate, maintain, test and improve the systems without us after the engagement concludes.
Every engagement starts with a conversation
Book a confidential discovery call and we will assess your current position, identify the most critical gaps and recommend a prioritised path forward.
No obligation.
No generic sales pitch.
Just an honest evaluation of where you stand and what you need.