The Challenge
Spiraling Costs to Run Outdated On-premise Data Center
Our client is a global leader in drivetrain, mobility, and powertrain solutions for commercial and industrial markets. With a presence in 19 countries, the company is known for its commitment to performance and reliability.
Their legacy IT infrastructure – running from a static on-premise data center – was extremely expensive to maintain and was becoming untenable to support. When their $10.4 million annual data center contract came up for renewal, they urgently needed a more agile, cost-effective cloud-based infrastructure.
But migrating more than 90 applications to the cloud, implementing security, and accessing application support from Oracle, seemed very daunting. They faced a potential migration bill of $7 million, including backdated support costs and reinstatement fee.
They turned to Sutherland for a more cost-effective and manageable way to modernize and manage their application infrastructure.
The Outcome
Improved Efficiencies and Millions in Savings With an Outcome-based Transformation Model
Sutherland’s seamless “as a service” model – where costs are based on consumption and are directly tied to the delivery of measurable business results – was a perfect fit. It shifted costs from CapEx to OpEx, helping avoid the up front payments and migration charges they had been presented with by Oracle.
Adopting our unique Zero Cost Cloud Migration offering, we moved their entire data center footprint, including more than 90 applications, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
We then secured the environment by implementing the full Oracle Cloud Security suite. Since our client’s key enterprise application, Oracle EBS, ran on Solaris OS with application support from Rimini Street, we modernized Oracle EBS on Linux OS.
Following the migration phase, we provided ongoing cloud managed services – ensuring predictable monthly expenses and cost savings while avoiding additional migration charges.
Our outcome-based approach and “as a service” delivery model helped our client close security gaps, optimize critical business operations, and future proof their infrastructure. And it was delivered with zero CapEx and a significant reduction in annual spend, down from $70.4 million to just $4.4 million. That’s digital performance unlocked and measurable results delivered!
Applications migrated from data center to OCI
Savings delivered on OCI migration costs
Oracle support reinstatement cost waived
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