Case Study

Bordeaux Index

Migration to Azure & Cloud Native Modern Workplace

Bordeaux Index began with the passion of a few wine and spirit lovers looking to change the way a wine merchant operates and redefine how wine is bought and sold across the globe. With five offices across the globe, with an ecommerce and trading platform serving buyers with the Worlds Finest Wines, Bordeaux Index is the one of the world’s leading wine and trade merchants.

The Challenges

Bordeaux Index IT Infrastructure and systems had evolved to keep pace with the company growth, but there was a gap around strategic vision. IT systems were deployed across a mixture of on premise and a multitude of cloud environments. Previous attempts to leverage the cloud had been tried, however merely resulted in deployment of bolt-ons to the current infrastructure that provided limited value.

Corporate devices utilised traditional IT application services and access methods and were struggling to scale.

Basic IT services were becoming unreliable and starting to cause frustration. It was clear that change was required.

"Partnering with Centrality enabled Bordeaux Index to leverage the benefit of a cloud enabled IT Strategy."

Kat Fowler, COO

The Objectives

Bordeaux Index had a desire to adopt a cloud first approach and leverage the power of the Microsoft cloud to ensure Platform Infrastructures could scale and staff could work from anywhere, at any time with access to the data and applications they needed.

"We are always striving for new and better ways of doing what we do because we believe our clients deserve better"

The Solution

Bordeaux Index partnered with Centrality who undertook detailed due diligence exercise following the best practice Microsoft Cloud adoption framework to determine how to migrate the various services to the Microsoft Cloud, whilst ensuring Bordeaux Index took full advantage of their M365 subscription.

Embracing a Cloud-Native design Bordeaux Index took the decision to take advantage of the M365 enterprise application suite, moving identity to Azure Active Directory and the adoption of Endpoint Manager for device management and Autopilot for Deployment. Bordeaux Index chose to deploy Connect by Centrality as a fast track method to migrate to this Cloud Native environment.

Centrality migrated legacy file shares to fully embrace the power of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and provided hands on assistance during the migration to ensure the end user experience was as seamless as possible. Presenting users SharePoint file shares through MS Explorer view and migrating the end user documents to Personal One Drive folders in the Cloud; ensured the users experience was consistent and familiar therefore aiding adoption.

Centrality migrated core business applications to Azure, and then published these using Azure Virtual Desktop, providing the users access to applications with only an internet connection. Increasing accessibility, without compromising security.

Azure Virtual Desktop was configured to auto scale based upon the number of users needing access thus ensuring optimum performance whilst maintaining cost control. Azure Virtual Desktop delivered a superior end user experience, providing the ability to scale quickly to ensure future growth needs could be met.

"Centrality delivered a step change in security"

The Benefits

The transformation program delivered a number of significant benefits and had a positive impact on the organisation:

User can now work securely from any location that has a simple internet connection without the need for VPN’s
Staff productivity has increased given the improved end user experience
Staff have been able to embrace hybrid working leveraging MS Teams, MS Teams Telephony and MS Teams Meeting rooms
The IT infrastructure footprint has reduced by 90%
With Centrality we delivered an overall cost reduction by consolidation suppliers and simplification of the IT Estate

Centrality has built a foundation that enables future scale, increased security and a premium end user experience for our staff.

Bordeaux Index

Migration to Azure & Cloud Native Modern Workplace

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