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Spiraling Costs to Run Outdated On-premise Data Center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. When their $10.4 million annual data center contract came up for renewal, they decided to explore 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, looked untenable. They were faced with 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 “as a service model” – where costs are based on consumption and are directly tied to the delivery of measurable business – was a perfect fit for our client’s holistic transformation.
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). The migration helped our client bring all their assets together with no upfront capex.
We 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 thinking and ‘as-a-service’ delivery model helped our client close security gaps, modernize, and futureproof their infrastructure: all with zero capex and a significant reduction in annual spend from $70.4 million to $4.4 million.
