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Who we are
Valyra was founded by technologists who had spent years watching capable Microsoft products fail in the hands of delivery organizations more interested in expanding scope than landing outcomes. We started with a different model — smaller, more senior, more accountable — and it has stayed that way.
Our origin
In the mid-market, there is a gap in Microsoft consulting. The large systems integrators are expensive, process-heavy, and route their best people to the largest logos. The small shops are nimble but thin on the coverage that a serious Microsoft program actually needs — ALM, infrastructure, licensing, analytics, and the application layer, all at once.
Valyra was designed to close that gap. A practice staffed at senior levels across all six practices, structured to give mid-market clients the same depth of expertise that enterprise clients get from the big integrators — at a price point that reflects that we are not carrying their overhead model.
Our name comes from the concept of a reliable forge — something that produces durable, tested work under pressure. That is the commitment behind the tagline: Enabling Reliable Digital Transformation.
How we operate
Architects and senior consultants run the work — not as supervisors of a junior bench, but as practitioners who are in the design sessions, the sprint reviews, and the cutover calls. The person you met in the sales conversation is on the engagement.
We write detailed scopes, negotiate them honestly, and hold them. When scope needs to change, we say so early, quantify the impact, and make a documented decision together. We do not park issues silently and raise change requests at the worst possible moment.
Every engagement produces documented architecture before significant build begins — even small ones. A written design is the difference between a misunderstanding surfaced at week two versus week eighteen.
If something is done more than once, it should be automated. Deployments, tests, environments, monitoring alerts, license audits — the default is to build once and run repeatedly, not to rely on tribal knowledge and manual checklists.
The measure of a good engagement is how capable your team is when we leave — not how dependent they are on our continued presence. We document, we train, we pair, and we structure handoffs so that independence is the outcome.
No managed complexity, no acronym fog, no steering committee theater. We tell clients what we see, including the things they might not want to hear, in plain language at the right time. We have found this unusual enough to call it a principle.
Our team
We are a deliberately flat, deliberately small practice. Every consultant holds active Microsoft certifications across their practice area and has shipped real programs — not just supported them in a junior role. We do not hire generalists and put them in front of D365 for the first time on your project.
Our team spans Dynamics 365 solution architects, Power Platform engineers, data engineers and analysts, DevOps practitioners, and infrastructure architects. Many hold multiple practice certifications — because the work at Valyra regularly crosses practice lines, and that cross-domain thinking is where the real value sits.
We operate remote-first, with consultants across the US, UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our clients get the seniority they need without geographic constraints — and we show up in-person when the engagement calls for it.
Credentials
Core Finance, Advanced Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Manufacturing — held actively across our D365 practice team.
Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, and Customer Insights — Journeys, covering the full CE suite.
App Maker, Functional Consultant, Developer, and Solution Architect — with PL-900 and PL-300 (Power BI) also active.
Azure Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Database Administrator, and Fabric Analytics Engineer, plus DA-100 for Power BI.
Administrator, Solutions Architect Expert, Security Engineer, and Identity & Access Administrator — plus AZ-140 for Azure Virtual Desktop.
The AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert is held across our engineering practice, along with platform-specific ALM certifications for D365 and Power Platform.
Ecosystem
Valyra operates as an independent practice — which means we recommend the technology that fits your problem, not the technology where we have the best co-sell arrangement. That said, we have deep operational experience with the full Microsoft commercial ecosystem and the technology partners that complement it.
Active participation in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem — with access to partner sandbox environments, technical presales support, and co-sell programs where they benefit our clients.
Documented experience with ISVs commonly layered on D365 — including payroll, EDI, advanced shipping, field service, and industry-specific solutions. We evaluate ISVs on technical architecture, not commercial relationships.
Deep integration experience with ERP, CRM, third-party payroll (ADP, Ceridian), logistics platforms, e-commerce systems, and financial consolidation tools (Planful, Adaptive, OneStream).