Background
A leading North America financial services company had a requirement to implement a transformation programme to turn their midrange physical solution into an on-demand, software defined solution.
Challenges
Wavestone had to manage the programme to migrate 1000 servers, provision for 4000 virtual servers and establish a migration factory. Wavestone’s Migration Acceleration Platform, mX was central to planning and tracking the programme to mitigate risk and maximise success.
Answers and key factors for success
- Over 4,000 virtual servers provisioned in the target environment in just 8 months, above the customer’s target run rate.
- Over 1,000 servers migrated to the target environment, again above the target run rate
- A single ‘factory’ process for our customer to follow enterprise-wide, which maximises success and promotes a collaborative culture.
- A central migration tool to not only plan migrations but also track progress.
- Utilisation of the single process to not just migrate suitable applications, but also to provision additional environments for applications outside of those targeted for migration.
Benefits
- A single version of the truth provided a baseline for migration analysis and design
- Produced an integrated end-to-end migration workflow
- Planned and co-ordinated the migration across 6 areas of the business
- Led knowledge-sharing sessions between the lines of business to share best practice
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“From the perspective of the reporting, they provide premier service in requirements development, process management and – most importantly – understanding our objectives and the environment within which we work”
Programme Manager, Financial Services Company
