Case Study: John Varvatos achieves a rock star IT transformation with Insight

John Varvatos - Customer Case Study

John Varvatos, a designer menswear brand with 250 employees across 22 retail locations worldwide, faced a major IT rebuild after being separated from VF Corp. New CIO Lee Goldenberg had just seven months and no internal IT staff to replace hundreds of inherited applications, dozens of systems, and the company’s entire technology environment. Insight was brought in to help the company become self-sufficient and modernize its IT foundation.

Insight redesigned the environment with a cloud-first, outsourced model, migrating most infrastructure to Microsoft Office 365, Rackspace, and Insight’s Remote Network Operations Center, while reducing mission-critical applications from 550 to 19 and supporting a BYOD workplace. Insight also built a custom business intelligence platform, Crossroads, on Microsoft Azure and Power BI to unify data from multiple ERP systems. The results were significant: about 90% of IT infrastructure was moved to the cloud within six months, and John Varvatos operated with just six IT staff while gaining better visibility, flexibility, and a “rock star” employee experience.

John Varvatos

Lee Goldenberg

CIO