Fertility Care Company Expands Partnership with ePlus for Azure Cloud Managed Services
Saves 35% on operating costs in the first year along with the ability to rapidly scale to demand, speed time to value for acquisitions, reduce risk, and achieve cost governance
Business Challenges
The customer sought to reduce operating costs for their product and platform teams while allowing them to scale independently of hiring, training, and retaining headcount.
As the company grew through acquisitions, they wanted to reduce time to secure and onboard environments from M&A activities, thereby decreasing time to value for their investments.
The customer needed to be able to rapidly respond to demand and growth while simultaneously controlling, anticipating, and reporting cloud costs.
The technology teams needed to provide organizational assurance for governance and security standards for their Azure environments.
Why ePlus?
- ePlus has a proven track record with the customer providing them with managed security services as well as their infrastructure purchases.
- ePlus was able to provide immediate value and demonstrate technical leadership by assessing their existing Azure environments and identifying areas for optimization to improve security and reduce costs.
- ePlus was also able to provide a program for assessment of target acquisitions the company would be making to rapidly onboard and remediate issues, lowering risk and costs.
- ePlus Cloud Managed Services was able to provide the customer lower operational costs compared to hiring and retaining staff while providing differentiated capabilities to secure and optimize their environment.
Solution
ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure
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ePlus engaged with the customer to assess their existing Azure environment and provided an analysis for technical alignment to best practices, security recommendations, and cost optimization recommendations.
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ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure was proposed as a way for the customer to optimize their Azure environment while providing alignment to help solve their business challenges and scale their business.
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The solution provides the customer access to Azure experts and ePlus product lines to support:
- Resource Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting
- Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance
- Data Protection and Reporting
- FinOps Analysis and Execution
- Deployment and Configuration Support of Azure Services
- Architecture-as-a-Service
- 24x7x365 Support Desk
Business Outcomes
- The fertility company was able to save 35% on operating costs in the first year while providing the business with technical expertise to scale to demand using a managed services model versus a build yourself strategy.
- ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure was able to speed the time to value for acquisitions by accelerating onboarding for newly acquired Azure environments.
- By leveraging the on-demand capacity of the Azure cloud, the customer is now able to rapidly scale their environment in alignment with demand, aligning costs with services revenue.
- ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure provided a consistently secure environment via continuous validation and best practices governance for the customer, reducing risk and standardizing deployments based on a defined security model.
- ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure delivered FinOps principles of resource allocation, measurement, visualization, and collaboration for service consumption as well as cloud optimization—resulting in overall organizational cost governance and assurance.