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Delivering rapid return on investment with agile, available analytics services in the cloud
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Chemicals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
Following a corporate divestiture, one of Tech Mahindra’s clients – a specialty chemical company with several thousand employees and production facilities on four continents – needed to separate all of its IT systems from its former parent’s infrastructure as quickly as possible. The client’s previous IBM Cognos Business Intelligence environment had been installed on-premise at the former parent company’s data center. However, Tech Mahindra realized that moving to a cloud deployment could have significant advantages. The challenge was to deploy a new analytics environment as quickly as possible.
About The Customer
Tech Mahindra is a USD3.8 billion company with more than 103,600 professionals across 90 countries. They provide technology services, platforms, products, and solutions to over 750 global clients, including several Fortune 500 companies. One of their clients is a specialty chemical company with several thousand employees and production facilities on four continents. This client was facing a challenge following a corporate divestiture, where they needed to separate all of their IT systems from their former parent's infrastructure as quickly as possible.
The Solution
Tech Mahindra advised the client to take advantage of the full software-as-a-service offering of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud. They were able to provision the new cloud environment in just four hours. The cloud-based Cognos application runs on virtual servers in a single-tenant SoftLayer environment that provides backup and recovery, load-balancing, and ISO 27001-compliant security features at the physical, network, and application level. Tech Mahindra then integrated the solution with the client’s on-premise data warehouse and single-sign-on system – and was able to start delivering the first reports and analyses to the client’s users within just five days.
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