Case Study: Grupo SOMA achieves $400K+ SQL savings and boosts productivity with Microsoft Azure

SAM done right is a strategic advantage

Grupo SOMA, Brazil’s largest e‑commerce fashion retailer, needed to scale IT operations to support growth while consolidating SQL Server workloads and moving key services to the cloud. As a large retail organization, they faced the challenge of reducing infrastructure complexity and costs while improving employee productivity and agility.

Working with Microsoft and partner Dell, Grupo SOMA used SAM to design a SQL Server consolidation and migrated services to Azure (including Azure SQL Database and Office 365). The move cut SQL Server costs by over $400,000 USD and delivered measurable gains in productivity, agility, and overall economy.

Grupo SOMA

Sidnei Correia Sellet

CIO