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Strategic Blue, a cloud financial services company, was facing a challenge in helping its customers understand and optimize their cloud services consumption. With the rapid growth of the hyperscale market and the continuous introduction of new products and enhanced features, cloud buyers found it increasingly difficult to understand the most appropriate services for their business. This was especially challenging as they now required specialized skills to maintain and manage the systems and also to understand the best ways to financially optimize the services being consumed. Strategic Blue, while having a strong understanding of the financial aspects of cloud consumption, needed a partner that could provide technical expertise at scale.

INDYCAR, a premier motorsport entity, was seeking ways to enhance the fan experience beyond the traditional means. The organization wanted to leverage technology to provide real-time race data, media-rich features, and immersive experiences to its growing fan base. The challenge was to develop a fully functional mobile application that could handle the vast amount of data generated during races, provide real-time updates, and engage fans in a meaningful way. The app needed to be ready for worldwide downloads before the start of the 2019 race season. Furthermore, the app had to be scalable, capable of supporting over 100,000 concurrent users, and offer enhanced features such as real-time telemetry, live leader board, and track map. The development timeline was tight, with only six months to the first race of the season.

As part of a divestiture agreement with Trinity Industries, Arcosa, a leading provider of infrastructure-related products and solutions, was faced with the challenge of separating its key applications and data while deploying a new infrastructure within a tight deadline. The separation process was critical to avoid strategic distractions, talent departures, and potential changes in shareholder reaction. The divestiture agreement required Arcosa to separate its data, finances, and operational information systems from Trinity with minimal business disruption during the transition. Arcosa entered into a Transition Service Agreement (TSA) with Trinity, stipulating payment to Trinity for ongoing IT services until Arcosa could prove full independence. The task was headed by Arcosa’s CIO, Bob Rosen, who had to stand up all the underlying infrastructure from scratch, a daunting challenge given the aggressive timeframe and ongoing TSA fees.

Konica Minolta, a global provider of multi-function printers, was faced with the challenge of ensuring the security of its network-connected devices. With the rise of cyber threats, the company recognized that device security was a significant concern for its customers, influencing up to 50% of their purchasing decisions. Despite conducting rigorous internal cybersecurity tests to meet PCI, HIPAA, FERPA, and GDPR regulations, Konica Minolta sought to further reassure its customers by investing in an extra layer of threat protection. The company aimed to identify any potential vulnerabilities in its new bizhub i-Series multifunction printers, thereby preventing hackers from exploiting these devices and causing data theft, business disruption, and financial turmoil.

A leading manufacturing and industrial machinery company, known for developing innovative equipment and machinery for electrical power generation, was seeking to modernize its data architecture to meet evolving business needs and deliver advanced data-driven solutions. The company's existing data platform was based on an on-premises Oracle data warehouse and Informatica ETL environment, which was not able to deliver data products at the speed, scale, and sustainability required by the business. The goal was to transform the data infrastructure to the Snowflake Data Cloud, Matillion ELT and the Qlik Replicate Data Integration Platform—all hosted on AWS. The modernized architecture would deliver an extensible technology stack that unites data sources, management and analytics tools for greater agility, scale and sustainability.