Case Study: The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral achieves £2.5M in savings and eliminates 24x7 shifts with Axway Automator

Axway Automator Helps Reduce Government Spending

The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, a UK local government managing a £250M budget and roughly 5,000 staff, faced a growingly complex, heterogeneous IT environment (mainframe, UNIX, Windows and 14 OS versions). The council needed multi‑platform automation to run jobs and backups, ensure 24x7 service‑level monitoring and reporting, and eliminate costly around‑the‑clock on‑site staffing.

Wirral implemented Axway Automator as a single multi‑platform scheduler and monitoring/reporting engine. The solution automated jobs and alerts, enabled accurate performance indicators and remote reporting, eliminated 24x7 shifts, delivered ROI within the first year and saved approximately £2.5 million over ten years while remaining stable and adaptable to evolving requirements.

The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

Jeff Ashworth

Head of Scheduling within the Finance Department