AN ELEVATE & INNOVATE MIGRATION
For this Home Improvement Retailer based in Watford, achieving full digital autonomy during their massive corporate demerger required a strategic overhaul, not just a cloud relocation. KO Technologies delivered an Elevate & Innovate Migration that went beyond lift-and-shift to transform the entire IT estate. We established a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) and implemented an immutable platform using HashiCorp Terraform. This resulted in zero-downtime deployments and cut the time to production by an impressive 75%, securing a future as a standalone, technology-driven retail leader.
Official Partner
The Client
A leading, digitally-led British home improvement retailer. Specializing in everything from building materials and trade supplies to kitchens, bathrooms, and DIY essentials, serves three core customer segments: Local Trade, Design & Installation, and DIY Retail. Operating from over 230 stores, the brand is known for its multi-channel approach, allowing customers to shop seamlessly online for Click & Collect or home delivery.
Name
Home Improvement Retailer
Turnover
£1.5 Billion per annum
Location
Watford, United Kingdom
KO Technologies delivered a modern migration that immediately supercharged our ability to innovate. We’re now moving faster than ever, while significantly reducing operational costs.
CTIO
Challenges
- Corporate Demerger: Executing a massive demerger program to transition into a fully stand-alone business entity.
- Infrastructure Autonomy: Technically separating all application infrastructure from the parent company's hosted data center and building a completely new, independent IT capability.
- Create a secure multi account AWS cloud: Due to the complexity and business units, many AWS accounts are required.
- Platform Modernization: Establishing platform parity first, and then immediately embarking on continuous improvement and a comprehensive DevOps transformation.
- Automation & Code First: Reduce operational overhead and increase automation to supercharge the business.
- Maintain service level uptime when migrating: A challenge to keep business continuity whilst cutover to new AWS infrastructure.
- Introduce better observability solutions: Replace the existing monitoring solutions with unified cloud observability solutions.
- Introduce better observability solutions: Replace the Citrix solution with a serverless AWS equivalent solution.
- Elevate & Innovation: A cloud first approach to introduce serverless and microservice technologies.
Solutions
- AWS Landing Zones
- CCoE Formation
- eCommerce platform
- Microservices platform
- Digital Workplaces
- Next Gen Firewall
- Datadog Observability
- Architecture diagrams
Results
Tools Used
- AWS
- DATADOG
- TERRAFORM
- TERRAGRUNT
- JENKINS
- GITHUB
- GITLAB
- NOMAD
- VAULT
- CONSUL
