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Business context
Customer behaviour was shifting towards delivery and take-out, and the organisation needed to respond faster.
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Exiting regional data centres and moving mission-critical SAP workloads to the cloud.
Read the brief online →3Data-centre regions exited to the cloud
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Transformation challenge
Mission-critical SAP workloads had to move to the cloud, and on-premises data centres in three regions had to be exited.
03
Strategic response
A cloud foundation: regional data centres exited, mission-critical SAP workloads moved, and analytics added for sales and inventory visibility.
- Technology
- Migration of the SAP and non-SAP estate in scope (300 applications, 500 servers) and exit of data centres in three regions.
04
Executive decisions
- Exit legacy regional data centres in favour of a scalable cloud foundation.
05
Devendra’s role
Programme scale describes the transformation. This describes the leadership contribution within it.
- Enterprise Architecture
- Provided enterprise architecture direction and cross-workstream coordination for the cloud migration and data-centre exit.
- Programme Scope
- A US$50M transformation programme covering 300 SAP and non-SAP applications and 500 servers.
06 · Business outcomes
Verified results
- Data-centre regions exited to the cloud
- 3Data-centre regions exited to the cloud
- Mission-critical financial, supply-chain and HR workloads migrated
- SAPMission-critical financial, supply-chain and HR workloads migrated
- Data centres in three regions exited
- Mission-critical SAP workloads moved to the cloud
- Analytics for sales and inventory visibility
- 300 applications and 500 servers in programme scope
Transformation focus
- Cloud migration
- Data-centre exit
- Enterprise architecture
07
Leadership lesson
Growth creates urgency. Leadership determines whether an organisation is prepared to seize it.
08 · Executive takeaway
A transformation begins long before the first system is migrated. It begins when leadership chooses a direction.
Read the brief online →Why this matters
Relevant when you are facing:
- Rapidly changing customer demand
- Fragmented application estates
- Data and reporting that cannot support decisions
- Multi-region data-centre exit
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