Case Study: a US-based telecommunications provider achieves lower application costs and faster throughput with HCL cloud modernization

HCL Shifts A Telecom Provider’s Applications To An Agile Platform

The customer, a US-based telecommunications provider, sought to modernize its legacy application landscape and reduce costs by migrating away from Mainframe and Unix systems. Their objectives included achieving operational savings, unlocking business value, and tackling rising capital expenditures. They partnered with HCL to leverage its digital systems integration services for this shift to an agile platform.

HCL's solution involved migrating the client's application portfolio to an internal Cloud and Linux environment, utilizing a factory approach for consistency and addressing expertise shortages in legacy systems. The results were significant, including a 20-25% reduction in annual costs, a doubling of batch throughput, and 25% savings in annual testing. HCL's efforts successfully repositioned the client for cost-effective maintenance and future enhancements, committing to an additional $6.6 million in savings.