◈ Testimonials
What organisations say
after working with
Mentari Consult.
These are accounts from organisations that have completed one or more of our advisory engagements. They describe their situation, what they commissioned, and what they found useful about it.
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Organisations advised
4.8
Average satisfaction score
14+
Years combined experience
100%
Engagements with written output
◈ Client Feedback
Accounts from organisations we have worked with.
Ng Kah Heng
IT Director · Manufacturing, Penang
We had been told for two years by different vendors that we were "ready to move to cloud". When we commissioned the Cloud Readiness Conversation, the output showed six workloads with unresolved dependencies that would have caused real problems mid-migration. It was not comfortable reading, but it was accurate, and it saved us from a costly assumption.
April 2025 · Cloud Readiness Conversation
Rohani Abdul Majid
COO · Professional Services, KL
The Multi-Cloud Architecture Advisory gave our board something they could actually evaluate. Three distinct options, each with a cost model in ringgit, a sovereignty note, and a plain assessment of the operational implications. We chose Option B. The reasoning was there to read, and the board accepted it without needing further explanation from the IT team. That alone was worth the fee.
March 2025 · Multi-Cloud Architecture Advisory
Tan Wei Liang
Platform Lead · Financial Services, Penang
We had tried to sequence the migration ourselves twice and both times the plan fell apart when finance and security disagreed about the sequencing. The Migration Path Workshop brought everyone into the same room for three days. By the end of day two, we had a calendar that finance and security had both signed off on. That had not happened in eighteen months of email chains.
April 2025 · Migration Path Workshop
Faridah Mustapha
Head of IT · Education Sector, Penang
The readiness assessment was straightforward and clearly written — I shared the executive summary directly with our VC and he had no questions about what we were proposing. The one thing I would note is that the scope is genuinely scoped: it covers what it says it covers, and if you need something beyond that, you discuss it separately. That is actually what we prefer, but worth knowing in advance.
May 2025 · Cloud Readiness Conversation
Ahmad Hafizi Ramli
CTO · Retail Group, KL
We appreciated that they genuinely do not have a preferred provider. We had been through two advisory exercises before this one where the "neutral assessment" ended up recommending the same vendor that had sponsored the advisor's conference speaking slot. With Mentari Consult, the three architecture options were presented with equal weight, and the recommendation was argued from our stated criteria. It felt like honest counsel.
February 2025 · Multi-Cloud Architecture Advisory
Loh Yuen Mun
Programme Manager · Logistics, Johor
The Migration Path Workshop was the first time our security team and our platform team had spent three consecutive days working on the same problem together. The facilitators managed the dynamics well — they kept the sessions focused without being heavy-handed about it. The migration calendar we produced has held up through three months of actual planning work, which I think is a reasonable measure of how grounded it was.
January 2025 · Migration Path Workshop
◈ Case Studies
Longer accounts from selected engagements.
Case Study 01 · Financial Services · Penang
From a frozen decision to a sequenced plan in three months.
The Situation
A regional financial services firm had been considering a cloud migration for fourteen months. Three internal proposals had been rejected by the board — primarily because security, finance and the platform team had reached different conclusions independently and could not present a unified position.
The Engagement
Mentari Consult completed a Multi-Cloud Architecture Advisory, followed by a Migration Path Workshop. The architecture advisory produced a written options paper the board could examine. The workshop produced a sequenced calendar that the three internal teams had contributed to and agreed with.
The Outcome
The board approved the cloud direction in a single meeting — the first such meeting to end with a decision in fourteen months. The migration calendar was approved with minor adjustments. Phase one began six weeks after the workshop concluded.
"The two engagements together cost us less than one month of the internal time we had already spent on this. That is not how I expected it to work out."
— Head of IT, Financial Services, Penang
Case Study 02 · Manufacturing · Penang
A readiness assessment that stopped a premature migration.
The Situation
A Penang-based manufacturer with significant legacy ERP infrastructure had agreed in principle to move to a cloud environment within twelve months, following a vendor presentation that described the migration as straightforward.
The Engagement
The Cloud Readiness Conversation identified eight workloads with unresolved dependencies to on-premise systems, three regulatory obligations that had not been considered in the vendor's proposal, and a team capability gap that would have required external support to address.
The Outcome
The twelve-month migration timeline was revised to twenty-four months, and a preparatory phase was added. The revised plan was commissioned only after the dependencies were resolved. The manufacturer estimated the original timeline would have resulted in at least two costly mid-migration pauses.
"The vendor had described the same system as 'migration-ready'. Mentari's assessment showed us specifically why it was not. That is a different kind of advisory."
— IT Director, Manufacturing, Penang
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