Solo practitioners
Enterprise-grade infrastructure sized and priced for a practice of one.
Cloud Development and Operations
Cloud systems for work that people trust you with.
Based in Ottawa, Lexalem designs, builds and operates cloud environments for organizations of any size, wherever they work — Microsoft Azure first, and other major clouds where the work calls for it — with data kept in Canada and security built to protect confidential information. Our deepest specialization is Ontario legal professionals: law firms, solo practitioners and licensed paralegals.
Across the whole lifecycle
- DesignAssessment, target design and a costed plan.
- BuildCloud-native applications, automation and integration.
- SecureIdentity, access control and recovery you have tested.
- OperateMonitoring, patching, backup and cost management.
Services
A full cloud practice, built to be the only partner you need.
Nine service areas across the cloud lifecycle. Most engagements begin with a single assessment and grow to cover day-to-day operations.
Design and Migrate
Understand what you run today, decide where it belongs, and move it there without losing a working day.
Build and Automate
Applications, integrations, reporting and accessible interfaces built on managed cloud services.
Cloud-Native Development
Custom applications built to run on managed cloud services from day one.
9 servicesAutomation and Integration
Serverless workflows that take the manual steps out from between systems.
6 servicesData and Reporting
Dashboards and pipelines built on data you already generate.
6 servicesAccessibility and Inclusive Design
WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance work, tested with real assistive technology.
6 services
Secure and Operate
Keep it running, keep it current, and keep it provably secure once it is live.
DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
Environments defined in code and deployed the same way every time.
7 servicesSecurity, Identity and Compliance
Strict access control, Canadian data residency and recovery you have tested.
9 servicesManaged Cloud Operations
Monitoring, patching, backup and cost management once it is live.
7 services
How we work
A clear sequence, agreed before anything moves.
No open-ended discovery, no surprise invoices. You see the plan, the timeline and the scope in writing first.
Assessment
Design and plan
Build or migrate
Operate and improve
Who we serve
Built around legal practice. Available to anyone who needs it done properly.
Growing firms
Consolidate scattered tools into one secure, well-documented environment.
Licensed paralegals
Secure file handling and workflows built around your scope of practice.
In-house legal teams
Legal-specific tooling that still satisfies your organization's IT and security requirements.
Beyond the legal sector
The catalogue is not legal-only. The same design, build and operations work is delivered for organizations that share the same constraints — confidential information, real deadlines and small internal IT.
- Accounting and professional services
- Public sector and NCR contractors
- Healthcare and regulated small business
- Startups and software teams
- Non-profits and associations
Platforms and coverage
Specialized, not limited.
Microsoft Azure first
Azure and Microsoft 365 are where we go deepest. Our design, security and automation work is built around that platform.
AWS and Google Cloud
Delivered where a workload already lives there or a requirement points that way, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Ottawa, the NCR and Ontario
On site where it helps and remote where it does not. Clients in other provinces are welcome and served the same way.
English and French
Delivery, documentation and support in both official languages.
Why Lexalem
A cloud partner that understands what is at stake.
Confidential work runs on trust and on deadlines. The technology underneath it should never be the reason either one slips.
Legal-sector depth
Systems designed around duties of confidentiality, data retention and file handling — not a generic small-business template dressed up for law firms.
The whole lifecycle, one partner
Design, build and day-to-day operations from the same place, so nothing falls into the gap between a consultant and a support desk.
Canadian by default
Keeping your data in Canada is the starting position, not a paid upgrade.
Security built for confidentiality
Access control, logging and tested recovery designed for information that cannot be allowed to leak.
Bilingual and local
Ottawa-based, serving the National Capital Region and Ontario in English and French, and remote elsewhere in Canada.
Questions
The things clients ask us first.
No. The legal sector is our deepest specialization and where most of our work sits, but the same catalogue is available to any organization. Tell us what you run, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
Contact
Tell us what you are running.
A few details let us arrive at the first conversation with something useful. Everything you send is treated as confidential.