Case Study: a leading office products manufacturing company achieves datacenter consolidation and 33% infrastructure savings with DataNovation

Leading Office Products Manufacturing Company - Customer Case Study

A leading office products manufacturing company faced a significant challenge following a merger and acquisitions. They needed to consolidate IT assets and decommission legacy ERP applications like Movex and Basware to reduce costs, but required seamless access to historical data without maintaining the old hardware. They sought a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solution to meet these goals and engaged DataNovation for a data platform that could handle multiple database schemas and accelerate decommissioning.

DataNovation implemented its solution to make the data from the legacy systems accessible independent of the original host. The results were delivered within 16 weeks, allowing the company to successfully shut down an entire datacenter. This rationalization effort led to an estimated 33% reduction in infrastructure costs, saving £40k annually on the first project alone. DataNovation provided the out-of-the-box flexibility the client needed to view each database uniquely and link document scans for easy reference.