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A worldwide provider in business and financial information engaged Align to lead a data center evaluation, move and migration project with the goal to capture at least $5 million in annual savings. Align worked with the client, supplier and legal teams to evaluate the current technology environment — which consisted of more than 1,000 servers and 350 distinct business applications housed in nearly a dozen data centers and technology rooms.

Following our needs assessment and working closely with business and IT leadership teams, Align developed a program to deliver a scalable, globally available and consistent IT-wide data center infrastructure. Our plan outlined improvements to processes and policies related to IT change, upgrades, troubleshooting and remediation. Enhanced metrics, reporting and analysis on IT spend for hardware, software, utilities and real estate were also provided.

Our proven data center move and migration process offered confidence to stakeholders that business uptime would be maintained. In the first 12 months, our initiatives helped yield savings in excess of $7M and are on target to deliver over $30 million in savings during a five-year term – all while improving technology availability and service support to all business units.