Cloud Migration with a FTSE 100 Global Mining Company
Our Client
This global mining company had begun pursuing a cloud-first strategy and had already developed its Azure landing zones when Refractis were brought on board.
Our Role
We managed the overall Programme to exit 11 data centres globally. We planned, scheduled & managed migrations across all regions & Business Units. In addition to managing the programme, Refractis resources project managed a number of the regional DC exits and larger specific system migration projects across EMEA. We worked closely with the clients outsourced cloud management partner. Along the way we also:
Refreshed the cloud business case
Managed delivery of the second generation landing zones
Assisted with the overall introduction of Infrastructure as Code
Migrated two separate instances of SAP S4/HANA
Migrated Oracle Hyperion Financial Management from OCI to Azure
Migrated JD Edwards for a manufacturing subsidiary
Remediated WiFi, DHCP and AD across multiple forests around the world
Improved HA and DR for a number of critical business systems
Developed Artic Tern, our migration management planning, tracking and reporting system.
Results
We successfully completed the programme in Autumn of 2024, completing all application migrations to Azure, and closing out the three largest datacentres, taking the tally to eleven. Gartner congratulated the client, telling them only about 10% of all companies who set out to close their entire datacentre estate do so successfully.
Over the course of the programme we dealt with over 1,300 application environments, including two different production instances of SAP S/4 HANA, a manufacturing subsidiary’s JD Edwards estate, Group Finances’ Hyperion Finance systems, and several Microsoft Dynamics AX environments. The programme achieved its objectives, both financial and organisational, and established full infrastructure as code capabilities which subsequently helped achieve the next set of Business Priorities.
Our Work
This global manufacturing company had begun pursuing a cloud-first strategy and had to adopt its Groups Azure tenant and landing zones. Refractis were brought on board to ensure a safe and smooth migration.
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