Partnering to solve legacy cloud challenges

The dream of every small-to-medium business is to harness one’s success and turn it into sustainable growth – expanding operations, hiring more workers, and delivering more value to a wider customer base.

But achieving this in the modern enterprise environment requires as much focus on IT strategy as business strategy. Without the right approach to cloud, technology, and cybersecurity, businesses will struggle to scale past a point.

Camp Australia knows this better than most. When the leading provider of Outside School Hours Care in Australia came to the conclusion that its decades-old IT and cloud processes were holding it back from unlocking its full scalability, it partnered with SoftwareOne to migrate to Microsoft Azure and adopt the benefits of a unified cloud environment.

How did SoftwareOne help Camp Australia achieve these goals? And what are the key lessons to be taken away from this successful transformation project?

Today, in association with Hyland, we’re speaking to Justin Itin, Sales Lead at SoftwareOne and Peter Lane, CTO at Camp Australia, to explore Camp Australia’s digital transformation project and how SoftwareOne helped facilitate it.

Highlights

"For any organization, cyber risk is increasingly real and we were seeking to partner in a way where we could confidently strengthen our cybersecurity posture. So we've really gone from a low level of maturity and sought to engage SoftwareOne to onboard new technical tool sets to improve our cyber resilience but then also to manage those tool sets."

"SoftwareOne is Microsoft's largest partner globally. We have incredible skills and capability, not just in Australia but all over the world. Everything from the entire stack of security products to all the modern work, data, AI, cloud, and other sort of services. So we have thousands of certified engineers around the world and we're constantly upskilling and bringing more capability in."

"In our managed cloud service we're seeing, right from the outset, a 10% imporovement in our pay-as-you-go cloud compute cost, which is a really significant financial benefit. Within our security partnership, we now have coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

"By having executive buy-in such as the support we're getting from Pete over at Camp Australia, to be able to have a great strategic vision on how he sees organization moving forward, we now have that vision to work together alongside [Camp Australia]. But also it involves making sure that the change also comes from the bottom-up, that users actually using the tools and systems are aware of the capabilities they have, that they're fully adopting the technology, and it's a more seamless transition process for them."

Footnotes

• Find out more about SoftwareOne
• Find out more about Camp Australia

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