Industry: Manufacturing | Services: Cloud, Digital Engineering Services, Digital Operations
Client Overview
Cummins is a global leader in engine and power generation manufacturing, with over 70,000 employees and $7 billion in revenue. To support its growth agenda, Cummins needed a modern, agile IT infrastructure capable of delivering performance at scale.
The Challenge
Legacy Systems Holding Back Performance
In spite of being leaders in their space, Cummins’ growth plans hit a roadblock because of its inflexible, legacy infrastructure.
Struggling to respond to business demand, Cummins’ continued expansion was hindered by the IT overhead and exorbitant costs of managing a data center-based hosting environment.
Their outdated infrastructure also lacked scalability and agility, resulting in a higher lead time to provision, which, in turn, impacted overall quality of service and led to their business expectations not being met.
Sutherland Solution
Holistic Cloud Transformation via Outcome-Based Model
Sutherland designed and executed a full cloud migration strategy that included:
- Transition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Office 365 on Equinix
- High-speed data transfer with Oracle FastConnect
- Comprehensive cloud security suite to meet regulatory requirements
Robust disaster recovery architecture for resiliency
This approach unlocked scalable, high-performance digital infrastructure while modernizing Cummins’ IT backbone.
The Outcome
Digital Agility and Cost Efficiency, Delivered
Cummins’s cloud transformation journey—powered by Sutherland—delivered a compelling combination of digital agility and cost efficiency. The initiative led to a 27% reduction in Total Cost of Ownership, unlocking significant operational savings while enabling a complete migration of all applications to the cloud. As a result, the company experienced dramatically improved IT agility and performance, with faster scalability and responsiveness to evolving business needs. This transformation also strengthened infrastructure alignment with Cummins’s digital business priorities and market leadership goals, positioning the organization for long-term growth and competitive advantage in a dynamic global landscape.
KEY OUTCOMES
Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Of applications migrated to cloud infrastructure
