Industry:
Local Government
Solution:
Azure Strategy & Migration
Client Situation
Mitchell Shire Council (MSC) is strategically located just 40km north of Melbourne, and is one of Victoria’s fastest growing outer metropolitan municipalities. Aligning to this growth, MSC had a requirement to review its existing IT infrastructure, with priority focus on a Cloud first adoption, leveraging Microsoft Azure. A Cloud strategy and roadmap was required so that MSC can justify the business case to move their environment to Microsoft Azure, and the steps to do so.
Our Contribution
Mitchell Shire Council engaged Xello as a preferred Microsoft Azure Gold partner that has the expertise and experience to understand their existing environment in order build a roadmap and business case justification for their adoption of Microsoft Azure. The decision to hire Xello services was based on MSC’s strong interest on achieving an outcome that allowed them to future-proof IT operations.
Using an internally developed methodology and intellectual property (IP), including known discovery techniques alongside workshops to gather the most relevant information pertaining to the discovery efforts, Xello were able to complete the discovery components while MSC continued to operate its core business.
Based on the efforts, Xello was able to build a vision for MSC, including;
- Cost Model Analysis: Cost analysis of existing services and infrastructure and a 3-year Total Cost Analysis (TCO).
- Cloud Architecture: An extensive plan covering IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/DRaaS to outline the cloud’s different capabilities, and how MSC can take advantage of these.
- Strategic Roadmap: A plan outlining a cloud roadmap in three stages: now, next, and horizon, aligned to MSC’s goals.
30%
MSC gained a detailed 3-year Total Cost Analysis (TCO) on the estimated transition to the cloud, with calculated cost savings of 30% over a 3 year-period on Microsoft Azure.
Client Benefit
The roadmap was able to demonstrate a huge benefit to MSC. Based on the key outcome and findings, Xello were easily able to provide MSC a clear 30% calculated cost savings across a 3-year Total Cost Analysis (TCO) by adopting Microsoft Azure. In addition to this, as the Council is growing in size, this will future-proof their strategy and enable them to scale as the growth is realised.
Kamran Changezi
Project Manager
