Stop stretching on-prem systems past their limits. Move to a cloud foundation that grows with enrollment and usage.
I work with education teams across Detroit who are tired of duct-taping their systems together. If your tech team is burned out, teachers are frustrated with platform limitations, or you're holding your breath every time usage spikes, it might be time to take a deeper look at the foundation.
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Opreto completed the tasks on time. They were highly responsive to reported incidents and were easy to work with. Further, they demonstrated excellent communication through virtual meetings and emails. Opreto was professional and friendly.
Districts, boards, universities, and education providers across Detroit and Southeast Michigan that want a practical path off aging infrastructure and into a cloud architecture that's built to scale.
| Problem | Opreto's Fix |
|---|---|
| Still anchored to on-prem servers and aging apps | Establish a secure cloud foundation build landing zones, identity, networking, backups and migrate priority workloads first |
| Systems were not designed to scale with enrollment and daily usage | Architect for scale from day one. Autoscaling, managed databases, stateless services, performance baselines, and load testing |
| Millions of records, thousands of sections, and last-minute changes push roster integrity past the breaking point | Roster service built for scale. OneRoster intake with validation, idempotent ETL, automated syncs, lifecycle controls, and audit-ready logs that keep logins stable |
| Legacy systems block progress | Modernize what matters. Refactor, replace, or retire; wrap with APIs until replaced to keep momentum |
| Modernization requires a full infrastructure overhaul | Outcomes over assumptions. We'll plan and execute the overhaul in phases with clear cutovers, rollback plans, and measurable milestones |
| Risk-averse culture slows change | De-risk with pilots. Reversible steps, governance and change windows; show progress early to build confidence |
| Costs creep up and are hard to predict | Apply a FinOps Mindset. Budgets, alerts, rightsizing, and usage reviews for predictable spend |
| Data is scattered and slow to use | A cloud first approach. Stand up a cloud data platform with reliable pipelines, quality checks, SLAs, and auditable lineage |
| Compliance is bolted on late. FERPA/GDPR/PDPA requirements become an afterthought | Compliance from the first sketch. Data-flow maps, least-privilege access, retention policies, audit logs baked into infra and code |
Whether you're running multiple campuses, coordinating cross-district delivery, or untangling years of legacy, here's what you likely care about:
In five clear steps, we move you off on-prem, design for scale in the cloud, modernize what stays, and keep risk low the whole way.
Catalog systems, dependencies, and constraints. Align on goals, SLAs, privacy, and success metrics. Produce a clear baseline and candidate pilots.
Choose the landing zone and define identity, networking, security, backups, and compliance from the start. Document patterns the whole team can follow.
Prioritize high-value workloads. Define phased moves with cutovers and rollbacks. Add hybrid bridges for anything that must remain on campus.
Migrate priority workloads. Refactor, replace, or retire legacy pieces. Establish clean data paths, monitoring, and performance baselines so the new stack scales with usage.
Run with change windows, reviews, and clear ownership. Track spend and usage, tune performance, and keep compliance embedded as the system grows.
Whether you have 500 or 50,000 students, coordinate across districts, or inherited a patchwork of systems, here is what matters:
We'll start with a focused technical review that maps your current state and a practical path to the cloud. You get a target architecture, a prioritized migration plan, a risk list, and a 90-day roadmap.
Districts, boards, and universities that want to move off on-prem, design for scale in the cloud, and modernize legacy systems without disrupting school.
Usually not. Our job is to clean up the glue between them and make sure they're stable and observable. You keep what works and swap what doesn't, on your timeline.
Yes. Most teams we support have devs and ops in place, they're just spread too thin or stuck in reactive mode. We add direction, architecture, sequencing, and guardrails so your team can move faster with less risk.
We'll align to your standards. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. The plan reflects what your organization supports.
Yes, Every engagement includes privacy and compliance baked into the architecture. We've worked with FERPA, GDPR, and PDPA environments, we'll build audit trails, access logs, and retention into the systems.
We design clean hybrid bridges so on-site systems work smoothly with your cloud foundation.
Open interfaces, clear data contracts, portable workloads, and infrastructure as code. You can replace parts without rebuilding everything.
We'll start with a two-week Cloud Migration and Legacy Modernization Audit. You will get a target architecture, a prioritized migration plan, a risk register, and a 90-day roadmap.
Alan's passion is building links between anything and the technology that can help them grow and reach the next level. But he has a particular interest in bridging that gap for businesses, and seeks to help absolutely everyone succeed.
He is a highly skilled software developer with over two decades of project achievement in many client-driven fields while also managing to generate a series of his own enterprises. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Wayne State University.
He is intensely self-motivated and enjoys pushing the limits of his abilities, so Alan can often be found skiing in Colorado, bicycling huge distances, or otherwise constantly crushing his last record.