Case Study: Coast Appliances achieves faster, lower-cost cloud operations with Syntax Enterprise Cloud and Managed Services

Coast Wholesale Appliances Shifts to the Cloud with Syntax Enterprise Cloud and Managed Services

Coast Appliances, a growing wholesale appliances company serving builders, designers, and homeowners across Canada, needed to reduce the high costs and operational strain of maintaining aging in-house IT infrastructure. As the company expanded, it looked for a cloud partner that could support its IBM Power applications, including Syntax Distribution Management iSDM and Cognos, while minimizing disruption to end users.

Syntax provided Syntax Enterprise Cloud for iSDM along with Remote Managed Services to handle the migration and ongoing infrastructure support. The move was described as seamless, and extensive testing helped reduce migration impact. With Syntax, Coast Appliances cut end-of-day processing time by 58%, reduced IT costs and risk, gained on-demand scalability, and redirected resources toward growth-focused initiatives and core business priorities.

Coast Appliances

Wayne Kuzek

Director of Information Technology