Blue Cube Travel, a corporate travel-management company based in the United Kingdom, had been relying on custom-designed analytics tools to deliver value to their customers. But Blue Cube Travel’s legacy technology wasn’t positioning them for a bright future. In response, Northdoor Plc worked closely with the company to migrate their legacy on-premises systems to Microsoft Azure. Northdoor implemented a carefully planned strategy that addressed the travel company’s critical requirements. The work involved migration from local servers, security enhancements, and upgrades of Blue Cube’s servers, networking, and phone system.
Customer challenges
Blue Cube Travel prides itself on combining in-house expertise with the latest travel technologies—including their own custom-designed analytics tool—to ensure outstanding travel programmes for their clients. The company recognised that it needed to future-proof their IT infrastructure, and Blue Cube made the strategic decision to migrate from their traditional on-premises server-based setup to the cloud to achieve this goal. The migration had a wide scope, as it involved more than just moving from office-based servers. It also encompassed replacement of servers, networking, and phones, as well as security enhancements.
Partner solution
For Northdoor and Blue Cube Travel, the migration wasn’t a simple “lift and shift” of on-premises systems to the cloud. The travel leader needed help to carefully plan a strategy for addressing critical requirements related to data privacy, security, resiliency, and business continuity. Blue Cube also needed to be confident that the digital transformation would provide them with data governance capabilities that would enable them to comply with the requirements of a complex regulatory landscape. In addition, considerations around strategic requirements, scale, and costs needed to be factored in. Key stakeholders were involved throughout the design and implementation process, enabling them to understand the impact of any changes to the operations.
Customer benefits
With their successful migration to the Azure cloud, Blue Cube Travel are now in a far better position to compete in the travel services marketplace, thanks to the flexibility, scalability, and reliability of its cloud-based IT operations. Blue Cube can rest assured that the solutions were implemented properly and professionally maintained and monitored throughout the migration. Critically, Blue Cube Travel’s data is now more secure, and the company has implemented additional tools in its cloud solution to further strengthen their security posture.
“Northdoor helped us not only successfully manage our migration to Microsoft Azure, but also reduce our business risk and ensure that we implemented best-practice security policies. Azure gives us a robust and resilient cloud platform that helps us ensure business continuity without the cost and complexity of on-premises infrastructure and ongoing maintenance.”
Kevin Trill, Director of Technology and Transformation, Blue Cube Travel
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