The company is a leading supplier of industrial and environmental machinery such as pumps, valves, end face mechanical seals, automation, and services to various industries. They provide products, engineering, and aftermarket services to help customers lower operating costs, improve performance, prolong equipment life and increase productivity. They are committed to creating innovative flow control solutions to benefit the world.
As a leading provider for the global infrastructure markets, The company sees digital transformation contributing to operational efficiency and streamlining processes. They focus on providing better business outcomes for their B2B and B2C customers, from production to product-as-a-service. The company recognizes that IT convergence with Operational Technology can help address many challenges. With a complex IT environment to be maintained and supported, they contacted Definity First to help manage the Microsoft technology already powering their manufacturing.
The optimization of their cloud infrastructure came with some challenges to tackle:
The process started from the premise that qualified personnel was needed to manage all its cloud environments and internal development projects. As a Microsoft Gold Partner Definity First undertook to manage their existing cloud assets. We handled cloud products such as Microsoft’s Azure while providing premier support for incidents with different severity levels and SLAs. Definity First also provided consulting services to manage and develop collaboration solutions in SharePoint Online and Office 365.
It was essential to modernizing the company’s infrastructure to avoid business disruptions. As part of our offering, Definity First provided the core management services the company was looking for: automation, orchestration, configuration management, identity management, backup, and disaster recovery.
A key aspect of this project was to help them to manage their cloud spending by performing deductive and predictive analytics on their past and expected cloud spending.