Case Study: Luxury Fashion Group achieves $100M IT savings and unified multi‑brand IT with Software AG (Alfabet)

Building The New Era Of Luxury Retail With It Portfolio Management In The Cloud

This multinational luxury fashion group, founded in 1941 and grown through more than $3 billion in acquisitions, faced rapid expansion, intense global competition and mounting cost pressure. Its IT environment was fragmented—managed with manual Access, Visio and PowerPoint processes updated only twice a year—leaving IS and EA teams without the real‑time visibility needed to support aggressive M&A, omni‑channel retail and fast decision making.

In 2014 the company implemented Alfabet as a cloud‑based IT planning and enterprise architecture platform with Software AG consulting, replacing ad hoc tools with a centralized, scalable system. The solution improved collaboration and transparency across brands, aligned IT to business strategy, enabled multi‑brand integration and supported an ambitious $100 million IT cost‑savings plan, while accelerating rollout timelines and meeting Wall Street and M&A expectations.