Specifications include, but are not limited to: The vision of NDE is to rearchitect applications to leverage the Microsoft Azure PaaS capabilities as much as possible. There are projects underway to streamline the data flow from ADVISER ODS to a Longitudinal Data System (LDS) and then to the Data Warehouse and finally to DataMart, Dashboards and Reports. The streamlining of data flow provides NDE with near real-time student, staff, school financial and operations data from LEAs and enables them to be successful in NDE’s mission. To align with the future state vision, the ADVISER system components and databases, the databases, and systems that it integrates with will be hosted entirely on Microsoft Azure. The ADVISER system is interconnected with databases that are on NDE on-premise and it is not practical to wait for all those systems and databases to be migrated to Azure. Also, there are components of ADVISER system that may require a rewrite or rearchitect for the cloud to leverage many of the features of Azure PaaS capabilities, which could be time consuming. To meet the primary goals of this project, a hybrid approach is recommended where components that can be migrated to Azure PaaS with minimal effort should be targeted for migration to Azure PaaS offerings; and components that cannot be migrated to Azure PaaS should be lift and shifted to Azure IaaS offerings. Later, NDE IT can establish separate projects and work on their own schedule to rearchitect the components that were migrated to IaaS to leverage PaaS capabilities.