About This Architecture

Council IT Application Landscape maps a complex multi-tenant estate spanning SaaS, on-premises, and third-party hosted systems across finance, housing, planning, and environmental services. Data flows between Azure-integrated identity management via Active Directory, on-premises infrastructure including VMware and Cisco security appliances, and external providers like Civica, NEC, Idox, and DWP systems. This architecture demonstrates hybrid cloud governance, critical for councils managing legacy systems alongside modern cloud services while maintaining security and compliance. Fork this diagram on Diagrams.so to customize for your own local authority IT strategy, add Azure service integrations, or export as .drawio for stakeholder presentations.

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How should a local council architect an IT application landscape integrating legacy on-premises systems, SaaS vendors, and cloud services?

This diagram shows a complete council IT estate with on-premises VMware and Cisco infrastructure, Azure Active Directory for identity, and integrated SaaS applications from Civica, NEC, Idox, and DWP. It demonstrates hybrid governance patterns where legacy systems coexist with modern cloud services while maintaining security boundaries and compliance requirements.