About The Client

A leading US-based apparel retailer with approximately 150 outlets and a strong omnichannel footprint across online and physical stores. It specializes in its own niche brand plus other brands. They had an in-house Data Centre, and Saksoft worked with them to identify areas of IT optimization, develop Cloud plans, and then migrate.

Business Challenge

  • Existing On-Premises Exchange 2010 environment (2 servers) had performance and stability issues

  • Detailed Architecture was not available, Support was not available, OPEX and CAPEX costs were high

  • There was no DR, Moreover Exchange 2010 Environment was supposed to go EOL in 2020

  • Approx. 475 users were hosted with on-premises AD sync, User Mailbox and critical backups were not managed properly

  • Infrastructure and operations on premise were not stabilized, OPEX and CAPEX investments concerns, Absence of concrete IT and Cloud Roadmap

  • Lacked End to End architecture information and documentation about interdependencies between Applications, Infrastructure and Business

  • Indefinite delays in implementing changes, ever increasing CAPEX and OPEX, IT Productivity issues

  • No details available about the Technology stack and how IT can augment the Business

What did we do?

  • Performed a detailed discovery and assessment of IT and Business

  • Proposed O365 Exchange Online solution, Designed the solution to migrate

  • Identified IT Optimization (Applications, Infrastructure and CAPEX/OPEX) areas

  • Hybrid Migration solution was proposed

  • Developed a detailed Roadmap of Cloud Adoption on AWS, Azure & O365 using their advanced services.

  • Business criticality and existing environment stability considered for Hybrid solution

  • Proposed a business case with cost benefits, along with possible technology solutions

  • Proposed AD integration with O365 with Azure AD connect and SSO capability for 475 users

  • IT Cloud Blueprint developed by Saksoft is now used as a baseline architecture document

Business Outcome

  • Successfully delivered the assignment with cost benefits, completely from offshore
  • Migration was completed in 3 weeks as part of the overall project duration of 7 weeks

  • Tangible savings of around 25% were observed. in terms of mailbox consolidation, archival, and costs

  • No impact to their core business which was happening through their stores

  • Agreement reached to optimize the Applications from 20 to 8 and for Infrastructure from 50 plus on-premises to 25 instances on AWS, Azure & O365

  • AWS Advanced Services like S3, RDS, FSx, HA/DR were proposed and designed

  • Phased wise migration strategy and roll out plan was highly appreciated. Phase 1 of O365 rollout already completed

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