Challenge
A non-profit, global leader in the education industry needed to create a comprehensive cloud transformation program to:
- Modernize IT architecture and applications
- Transform IT operations by significantly reducing the resources and cost required
- Enable innovation in an increasingly competitive and complex marketplace
Solution
Provided targeted solutions to address gaps in the client’s capabilities, which included:
- Developing a cloud roadmap and strategy
- Implementing and managing initial DevOps function
- Enabling adoption of cloud technology at all levels of the organization in the areas of data, process, and capabilities
- Helping execute against the strategy and roadmap
- Aligning cloud efforts with company’s strategic goals and business objectives
- Establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and communicating them across departments
- Preparing training and change management materials to educate and prepare client personnel for cloud migration
Outcome
Moving critical IT operations and processes to the cloud gave the firm:
- Ability to strengthen its competitive positioning and set a strong foundation for ongoing business transformation
- A rationalized data ecosystem with established quality standards to improve the data producer/consumer relationship
- Increased IT operational efficiency
- Clearer links between technology and data investments and broader business objectives and company needs
- Higher project ROI based on strong end-user adoption
Published April 8, 2021