By Insight Editor / 15 Feb 2024 / Topics: Data analytics Azure Cloud
Facts at a glance
Client industry:
Retail/convenience
Challenge:
Address multiple technology initiatives in tandem — from app enhancements to IoT and edge, cloud, ransomware readiness and more.
Solution:
Multiple workstreams delivered at scale to meet key priorities and drive outcomes across the business.
Insight provided:
- Consulting Services
- Managed Services
- Ransomware
- Data protection
- Data platforms & analytics
- Cloud platforms (design, implementation, migration)
- Application modernization (rationalization, strategic recommendations)
- IoT & edge
Outcomes:
- Improved cybersecurity posture with modern data protection
- Business intelligence for better decision-making with edge devices
- Greater agility and scalability with strategic cloud migration
- Enhancements of critical applications — fewer crashes, stronger security, and better performance that can scale
To transform security camera footage into valuable business data, the client leaned on Insight’s expertise across hardware, software and services. By designing the optimal configuration to support AI and ML workloads, our client now has a solution that can scale.
Today, the business is making better decisions about product placement, store layouts and staffing, and can do so without sending workers into each store to manually monitor. Individual solution components can be upgraded without needing to redesign the solution, with extra capacity to support future growth.
The client has used this project as a springboard into supporting the customer journey more effectively — heading toward use cases such as assisted self-checkout and more.
Insight actively engages with key client stakeholders across various lines of business. The collaboration extends from the data center and IT operations to innovation projects, M&A activities, and application development groups.
The client had been grappling with a fragmented data protection landscape, using five– to six processes across legacy platforms. To build a cohesive strategy, the organization leaned on Insight starting with a comprehensive assessment.
The evaluation gave our client an agnostic view of all available data protection technologies. After narrowing down options based on the client’s strategic goals, Insight guided the organization through successful Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and streamlined the protection policy. This not only modernized on-premises data protection — it also laid the foundation for a seamless transition to the cloud.
All in all, Insight helped the client with:
Prompted by the need to shift a data warehouse to the cloud after losing on-prem support, the client now partners with Insight for cloud landing zone design, implementation, onboarding and more.
To build the foundation for a hybrid cloud end state supporting hundreds of apps, Insight is helping the client with full app inventory and rationalization. This includes strategic recommendations across the seven R’s (retire, replace, rehost, refactor, rearchitect, re-envision).
As part of its cloud journey, the client is enhancing UX for a critical customer-facing app. Migrating to a cloud-based Azure platform is preventing crashes, increasing security, and improving scalability and performance.
As the organization moves to the cloud, Insight’s teams ensure consistency in security, networking, governance and naming conventions. Today, the business is avoiding the most common pitfalls of cloud modernization projects: underestimating complexity, overlooking security and compliance, and much more.
Additionally, the client leverages reusable DevOps code to improve performance and uptime while driving cost savings. The business is also gaining a leg up with cloud managed services. Better scalability, increased agility, improved security and access to deep expertise will position our client to keep up with changing market demand.
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