Industry: Manufacturing
One of the largest paint manufacturing companies in North America is an American-based paint retailing company that deals with supplying paints to various retailers and shopkeepers across the globe. Color, technology, innovation, and leadership define one of the largest paint manufacturing companies in North America. For more than a century, succeeding in these areas has motivated all who work there and continues to inspire and direct their growth today.
Business Scenario
Manually accessible only.
Each solution is independent and provides some specific functionality.
Have multiple enterprise solutions.
No intercommunication between the systems.
Scope
BMC undertook a program spanning code consolidation and migration of on-premises applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud. The company wants to streamline service delivery, improve the governance of storage and compute resources, and accelerate customer onboarding across regions. The company wants to modernize their applications and organization by using Azure DevOps to reduce their maintenance and management costs.
Challenges
In the ‘As-is’ phase, retailers pushed all transactions to the FTP server to be fetched by SAP HANA for the storage and processing data, which is slow.
BMC noticed some gaps and redundancies in their supplier outreach platform, mostly connected with their on-premises infrastructure and recovery time.
BMC faced the issue of the management of employees i.e., working hours and the number of employees in any department.
Solutions
Integrated platform for multiple systems.
Automated communication between systems.
Use of DevOps tool, Azure Boards to manage employees.
Version Controlling is enabled using Azure Repos.
Enabling sophisticated CI/CD pipelines on the application using Azure DevOps.
Outcomes
Delivery of new updates to the market is 50% faster.
Risk of downtime has decreased to 0.1%.
There are less error-prone systems.
The handling charges for servers are much low.
Increase in efficiency.
Benefits
Version controlling of application.
Using Boards to manage productive hours of employees.
Reduced manual overhead.
Developer-friendly documentation.
Easy monitoring.
High availability.
Enhanced CI/CD pipelines.
Elastic scalability, managed upgrades and availability.
Central management, orchestration, scheduling, & monitoring.
Project Highlights
Celebal Technologies assessed the technicalities and issues related to on-going on-premises applications of BMC and worked smartly to modernize the application using Azure DevOps with the minimum possible costing.
Celebal also enhanced the development and operations processes by enabling sophisticated CI/CD pipelines on the application, leading to a more systematic and advanced version of the BMC application with various innovative modifications.
The collaboration between BMC, the largest paint manufacturing company in North America, and Celebal Technologies exemplifies the transformative potential of cloud migration for business-critical applications. The successful migration of their on-premises application to Azure improved performance, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
