Industry: Manufacturing
Company Overview:
One of the largest paint manufacturing enterprises in North America, the company is a globally recognized name in the production and distribution of premium paints, serving retailers and distributors across continents. For over a century, its commitment to innovation, color excellence, and technological advancement has set benchmarks across the paint industry. Guided by strong leadership and a culture of continuous improvement, the enterprise continues to expand its global presence while upholding its legacy of quality and trust.
Business Scenario:
Before modernization, the enterprise operated through independent solutions with limited interoperability:
-Systems were manually accessible and siloed.
-Each application served a specific function without integration.
-There was no intercommunication between platforms.
-Multiple enterprise systems created redundancy and inefficiency.
The absence of a unified platform hindered real-time collaboration, slowed data processing, and introduced operational complexity.
Scope of the Project:
The modernization program involved:
-Code consolidation and migration of on-premises applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud.
-Implementation of Azure DevOps for end-to-end lifecycle management.
-Establishing centralized governance of storage, compute, and deployment processes.
-Reducing maintenance costs and improving scalability through automation and continuous integration.
Challenges:
During the initial assessment, several inefficiencies were identified in the legacy setup:
-Retailers were required to push all transactions to an FTP server, which were later fetched by SAP HANA for storage and processing. This made the process slow and resource-intensive.
-The supplier outreach platform faced redundancies due to on-premises infrastructure limitations, resulting in longer recovery times.
-Employee management, including tracking working hours and departmental headcount, was largely manual and error-prone.
Solution Approach:
The modernization journey focused on building an integrated, automated, and cloud-native ecosystem. Key interventions included:
-Development of an integrated platform connecting multiple enterprise systems.
-Automation of communication between previously isolated solutions.
-Adoption of Azure Boards for employee management and productivity tracking.
-Version control implementation through Azure Repos for streamlined development.
-Establishment of sophisticated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring continuous delivery and improved deployment efficiency.
Outcomes:
The migration to Azure delivered measurable enterprise benefits:
-50% faster delivery of new updates and features to the market.
-Downtime risk reduced to 0.1%, significantly improving service reliability.
-Error-prone processes eliminated, ensuring system accuracy and resilience.
-Lower infrastructure costs due to reduced server handling charges.
-Improved operational efficiency across development and IT operations.
Key Benefits:
-Robust version control across all applications.
-Optimized employee productivity through Azure Boards.
-Reduced manual intervention and overheads.
-Developer-friendly documentation and collaboration environment.
-Centralized monitoring and governance of applications.
-High availability and elastic scalability through Azure services.
– Enhanced CI/CD pipelines for faster, reliable deployments.
-Automated orchestration and scheduling, ensuring consistent operations.
Project Highlights:
Celebal Technologies conducted an extensive technical assessment of the on-premises ecosystem and executed a seamless modernization strategy on Microsoft Azure. The transition minimized costs while enhancing system agility, security, and scalability.
By deploying Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, and CI/CD automation, Celebal enabled a more streamlined, advanced, and intelligent version of the enterprise’s application suite, ensuring greater collaboration between development and operations teams. The collaboration between the client 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.
