Case Study
Driving infrastructure savings in global logistics
Background
Our client, a global logistics company, had expanded rapidly and as a result the technology estate needed harmonising. Bringing the businesses together had created duplication and inefficiencies which was costing them money.
We were able to achieve over £2.7 million worth of savings, significantly more than the cost of our engagement, while improving business performance across the board.
What we did
Starting with a discovery exercise to fully map the estate we were able to identify and prioritise opportunities to improve performance while reducing costs. Critical to the success of this project was our ability to engage stakeholders across the different business units and regions. With their support we were able to develop a delivery plan to remove unnecessary, redundant and obsolete IT systems.
As a direct result of this project, we were able to introduce a stronger governance structure across the vendors. This delivered more accurate consumption billing reports, enabling a more strategic view of the estate based on clear data. Being clearer on the real usage meant we could confidently identify opportunities to save money where systems were either duplicated or unused.
Technology in scope
- Multiple vendors as the business was at an early stage of its outsourcing journey.
- A mixture of on premise/data centres as well as production/development and test environments.
- Citrix
- Windows servers and accounts
- Unix/Linux systems
Results
The immediate tracked savings amounted to $2.7million but were much more than that overall. The project was completed over 12 months with zero business impact to the end users.
The initial scope of work was so successful it was then rolled out across the infrastructure of data, servers and network accounts.
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