Success Story: Cloud Migration for Mimacom Flowable Group

Achieved Results

The successful completion of our 12-month cloud migration project (from mid 2019 until mid 2020) yielded impressive results for Mimacom Flowable Group. This ambitious undertaking involved migration of two data centers, over 170 virtual servers, 16 TB of storage, and over 20 internal services and applications to the cloud.

• We achieved an average hosting cost reduction of approximately 20% per user over the next three years, eliminating the need for significant hardware investments and maintenance costs associated with our local data centers.

• Thanks to the robust automation capabilities of the cloud, our team size remained the same while enabling us to efficiently manage a significantly larger company infrastructure, accommodating 66% more employees and effectively handling a 35% increase in IT requests and incidents.

• By implementing changes to our agreed maintenance windows and leveraging cloud capabilities, we successfully minimized downtime and achieved an impressive 99.9% availability.

• Furthermore, cloud migration has had a profound impact on our security landscape. Complementing best practices in security, Azure (our cloud provider) services are compliant with different security standards (ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, PCI DSS, PCI 3DS, HIPAA, FedRAMP) and simplify the prevention of DDoS attacks and ensuring the availability and integrity of our applications and data.

• The optimized toolchain resulting from our cloud migration has boosted developer productivity by 25%, enabling the delivery of higher quality code and driving continuous innovation, thanks to automating the creation of app environments on demand, GitLab autoscaling of runners, and enabling automatic quality checks to save costs. This accelerated development cycle has led to faster time-to-market, allowing us to seize new opportunities and gain a competitive advantage.

Lessons Learned

• Communication and transparency are key to a successful cloud migration. The project team made sure to document the decisions and keep everyone informed about the progress of the migration. This helped to build trust and support for the project.

• Continuous learning and improvement lead the way. Embracing the mentality of trying, learning, and adjusting to new technologies, modernizing applications to fit the cloud environment, and being prepared with plan Bs in case of technical constraints helped us choose the best option for our organization.

• Using managed services simplifies the cloud migration process. Managed services take care of the underlying infrastructure, allowing you to focus on application development and deployment.

• Automating the migration process as much as possible saves time and reduces errors. We used a variety of automation tools to migrate our applications to the cloud, allowing us to test, fail and restart the process different times.

• Migrating to the cloud can help you reduce your IT costs. By migrating to the cloud, we reduced our IT costs per user by 20%.

Conclusion

The migration to the cloud has proven to be a big success for Mimacom Flowable Group. Our company has reaped the benefits, becoming more innovative, flexible, and secure in the transformation process. Additionally, we have achieved a significant reduction in IT costs, allowing us to allocate resources more efficiently and invest in future growth.

Mimacom Flowable Group's success story serves as a testament to the visible benefits of cloud computing. By sharing our achievements and insights, we aim to inspire and guide other companies on their cloud migration journey.

Contact us today to explore how Mimacom Flowable Group's success story and Application Modernization Framework can be tailored to your unique business needs.