Case Study: Present Group achieves 30–34% operational cost savings and improved ERP performance with Amazon Web Services

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Present Group, a Perth-based engineering services firm founded in 1998 that supports commissioning and operations for major projects, faced rising costs and administrative overhead maintaining an on‑premises data center. Its business-critical Epicor ERP and month‑end reporting suffered from capacity constraints, and an initial cloud provider couldn’t deliver the elasticity needed to prevent stalled reports and slow collaboration tools.

Working with AWS and partners (ITOC Australia and Amcom), Present Group completed a lift‑and‑shift migration to AWS in three months using Direct Connect, EC2 instances across Availability Zones, S3 backups and automated snapshots, and CloudWatch monitoring. The move delivered immediate gains—30% lower operational expenditure on on‑demand AWS and a further 34% savings using 12‑month reserved instances—plus improved ERP performance, eliminated SharePoint slowdowns, faster employee onboarding, higher availability, and a roadmap to re‑architect for even greater resilience and elasticity.

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Cobus Bothma

Enterprise Systems Manager