Cloud and workplace
A consistent workplace, from day one.
Give people the devices, applications and access they need from day one. Layer8 helps you make setup, account changes and departures consistent, and plans migrations around the work your team needs to keep doing.
The challenge
Growth exposes every shortcut in onboarding.
Different device setups and access lists create avoidable support work and make departures harder to verify. Use an approved starting point, a clear change process and a removal workflow your team can check.
For the workplace and operations leads
Give each employee a consistent, approved starting point.
We connect cloud accounts, standard device settings and application access into a repeatable process for new starters and departures.
Explore the customer story →A good fit when…
Distributed teams and growing organizations that need consistent cloud access, device enrollment and ownership.
- Permissions expand without review as collaboration grows.
- Device enrollment and application access differ by employee.
- Tenant administration depends on undocumented individuals.
What the engagement covers
Tenant and access review
Inventory tenant roles, identities, collaboration services and data locations. Define administration, emergency access and shared responsibility.
Device baseline
Agree enrollment, device health, management and supported application settings. Confirm licensing and pilot compatibility before rollout.
Lifecycle and collaboration
Establish role-based requests, onboarding/offboarding and owner review of sharing/retention requirements.
Migration planning
Scope sources, destinations, data classification, licensing, coexistence, acceptance and rollback. Sensitive or controlled data needs an eligible, approved service boundary.
What you receive
- Tenant/role and application inventory
- Approved device baseline and exception register
- Lifecycle and administration procedures
- Migration/change plan where scoped
- Pilot and access acceptance evidence
How the work moves forward
Inventory
Identify tenants, users, devices and data owners.
Agree
Select the target policies and required licenses.
Pilot
Validate a representative workflow and recovery path.
Roll out
Stage changes and document operating ownership.
How we check the results
- A user receives only approved application access.
- An enrolled device meets the agreed baseline.
- A removed user loses the agreed access.
- An owner can recover records and explain exceptions.
Who does what
Your team provides
- Approve access to your cloud services and identify who manages each application.
- Confirm data classification and retention decisions.
- Purchase or retain required licenses after scope review.
What needs a separate agreement
- Product subscriptions unless explicitly quoted
- Custom development and unscoped migrations
- A presumption that a commercial tenant can handle CUI/ITAR data
- Legal retention or export determinations
Your proposal clearly lists what is included, the service hours, each team’s responsibilities and how we will check the results.
Questions about Cloud and workplace?
Find service answers in our FAQ, or suggest a topic for a future AMA.
Browse Cloud and workplace FAQs →The intended result
Make arrivals, changes and departures predictable.
Keep device setup and application access tied to approved roles. Your team can follow the lifecycle, verify completion and see exceptions that still need a decision.
Bring consistency to your cloud workplace.
Tell us which cloud services and devices you use, what licenses you have and how your data needs to be handled. We will agree a small pilot and a plan for the wider rollout.