Application Management & Azure DevOps Support Services
Codify’s managed application service provides seamless DevOps and application support for your custom-built applications hosted in Azure.
We ensure your applications are resilient, secure, and monitored using an approach that leverages the latest best-practice cloud development tools.
We help you move beyond maintaining the as-is state to proactively securing and modernising your applications, without the need for an expansive in-house team. Our application management services are designed to solve these common pain points, transforming your application from a liability into a strategic asset.
The challenges of in-house application management
High Cost & Fragility
Ongoing hosting and infrastructure expenses are significantly higher than modern cloud alternatives, with applications that are fragile, hard to update, and prone to reliability issues.
Operational Bottlenecks
Manual, time-consuming deployments and a lack of CI/CD pipelines introduce delays and the risk of error.
Poor User Experience
Users struggle with clunky, outdated workflows, manual workarounds, and a lack of mobile-friendly design, impacting productivity.
Lack of Scalability
Applications lack the flexibility for future improvements and cannot easily integrate with modern, scalable services like Azure Logic Apps or Function Apps.
When is a managed application service the right fit for you?
Our service is ideal for organisations that rely on custom-built applications to run their business. We provide expert Microsoft Azure DevOps support and help you migrate to a modern, secure platform like GitHub for a variety of applications, including:
Legacy Internal Tools
A custom-built CRM or inventory management system that is critical to your operations but is outdated, difficult to maintain, and requires manual deployments.
Custom Customer Portals
A client-facing portal built on an older architecture that needs modernisation, enhanced security, and a more resilient foundation to handle increased user traffic.
Data Processing and Reporting Applications
An in-house app that processes business data and generates reports, but suffers from inconsistent performance, operational bottlenecks, and a lack of modern monitoring.
Our 3-stage approach to application health
Codify’s managed applications service follows a structured, three-stage process to ensure the long-term health and performance of your Azure-hosted applications.
1. Analyse
Codify assesses your application’s architecture, support maturity, DevOps processes, and risks. We deliver a comprehensive report based on an in-depth analysis of key criteria:
- Business ownership criteria
- Business continuity & DevOps Maturity criteria
- Technical analysis criteria
- Custom application criteria
2. Rectify
Based on our findings, we deliver project work to modernise and stabilise your application.
3. Sustain
- Elemental and continuous health monitoring
- DevOps Build Process Sustainment
- Application break/fix support
- Managed support incidents
The strategic shift from Azure DevOps to GitHub
Microsoft is investing its future in GitHub, making it the most strategic platform for modern application development. We can help you migrate your application from Azure DevOps to GitHub, allowing your teams to leverage powerful new tools. There are many benefits for Developers and Application Support Managers.
Key benefits of managed application services
Architectural Resilience & DevOps Maturity
We transform fragile applications into resilient, modern assets with mature DevOps pipelines.
Cost Optimisation
Proactive monitoring and optimisation reduce ongoing hosting costs and infrastructure expenses.
Unlimited Support Model
Our flexible, non-hours-based model gives you access to a dedicated team whenever you need it.
Easier Governance
We implement robust controls that simplify governance for your development teams, ensuring security and compliance.
Security & Governance
Our commitment to a Secure Coding policy and its implementation on GitHub is what drives our own ISO certifications. We deliver a security-first approach that is a key differentiator, particularly for government and healthcare clients. Our managed services include:
Role-based access control
Service account and certificate management
Auditability and change control
Our Accreditations & Expertise
Trusted Microsoft Solutions Partner
We are a trusted Microsoft Solutions Partner with proven expertise in Azure DevOps and application support, serving public sector, enterprise, and regulated industries.
Certified Security & Compliance
We are ISO 27001 / ISO 9001 certified and have qualified Essential 8 Auditors on staff to help you achieve your target security maturity level for online services.
Deep Azure Expertise
We have deep expertise in modernising and supporting custom-built cloud applications on Azure.
Frequently asked questions about custom Azure application management
Is Microsoft replacing Azure DevOps with GitHub. What does this mean for our existing projects?
This change is a strategic move by Microsoft to consolidate its platform investment. For your projects, it presents a key opportunity to future-proof your development lifecycle. Our service can help you seamlessly migrate your code and work history to GitHub, where you can leverage powerful new features like advanced security and AI-driven tools, ensuring your applications remain modern, secure, and scalable for years to come.
We’re in the middle of a migration to Azure, and we're worried about unexpected costs and overruns. How can we get our budget under control?
This is a very common concern. Many businesses underestimate the ongoing operational costs of Azure, such as data egress and licensing, which leads to budget blowouts. Our service provides proactive cost management through our Analyse and Sustain stages. We don’t just migrate your application; we help you use Azure Cost Management tools and conduct regular optimisation reviews to ensure your spending is predictable, governed, and always aligned with your budget.
We're an Australian business with strict data and compliance requirements. How can we be sure our custom application in Azure meets those standards?
Security and compliance are a major priority, especially with standards like ISO 27001 and Australian privacy principles. Without a security-first approach from the beginning, your application can be vulnerable. Our service embeds security and governance into every stage. We provide a full security analysis of your application architecture and implement robust controls like role-based access control (RBAC) and certificate management to ensure you meet all relevant legal and security requirements.
Our legacy application is a critical part of our business, but it's becoming a huge maintenance burden. Is it even worth migrating to Azure?
Legacy applications often have high maintenance costs and are prone to reliability issues. Simply rehosting them in the cloud won’t solve these problems. Our service’s Rectify stage is designed for this exact challenge. We assess your legacy application and deliver project work to modernise it, from dependency upgrades to re-platforming, transforming it into a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud-native asset that is much easier to maintain.
Our deployments are slow and manual, creating operational bottlenecks for our development team. How can we improve our release cycle?
Manual deployments are a major source of frustration and risk for IT teams. Our Managed Azure DevOps service is built to solve this. In the Sustain stage, we establish and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines. We handle the technical and operational burden of your release process, ensuring your deployments are fast, repeatable, and reliable, allowing your development team to focus on building new features, not managing infrastructure.
Get started with our Application Management service today.