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The Wilhelmsen group operates the largest maritime network on the planet, with over 2,200 locations worldwide. In order to accelerate its pace of innovation, while reducing both IT cost management and carbon emissions, Wallenius Wilhelmsen decided to move its full IT landscape into the Cloud. With 9,500 employees across 70 countries, 130 cargo vessels, 120 processing centers for cars and heavy equipment, 15 trade routes on six continents, this IT landscape supports some critical IT processes.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Teams selected Sopra Steria to drive this massive transformation project. The agreement covers a comprehensive range of services including IT Transformation, IT and Cloud Operations, Service Desk and Security.
The transformation aims to leverage Cloud Technologies, culture and innovative services, such as sensor technology, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and automation technology to develop new strategic workloads to accelerate Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s business expansion.
Accelerating innovative expansion across the world
In the digital age, reducing IT costs while increasing efficiency and effectiveness whilst adapting security against new cyber risks, are fundamental objectives for any enterprise evolving in a global market.
To achieve these critical objectives, Wallenius Wilhelmsen selected Sopra Steria as their chosen strategic partner, due to our expertise in Digital Platform Services Consulting and Managed Services. This collaboration started with an optimised migration of its 120 critical business workloads into the Cloud (Microsoft Azure and temporary Oracle Cloud). Sopra Steria worked alongside our client to define a six-month transformation plan. This started in 2020 and included a customised cloud evolution strategy for each application which applied a lift and shift and extend approach and development of the required business cases. Specific attention was also focused on the improvement of the existing landing zones with cutting-edge governance, observability and automation practices and tools.
From developing the strategy, Sopra Steria's teams progressed to the global delivery and management of the entire IT system, including application operations. Implementation included the delivery of a multimodal delivery governance model, covering the areas of on-premise IT, Cloud Services and Global Service Desk. More than 3,000 end users are now supported in O365, with all users supported by a 24/7 single point of contact. This step provided a unified vision and quality of service, with the right services provided to each workload and end users.
In order to secure its business activities, Wallenius Wilhelmsen has also delegated its risk management and data security to Sopra Steria. This encompasses the design, implementation and continuous management of security services to meet Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s needs in terms of ensuring compliance and optimal cybersecurity to mitigate risk and ensure business continuity.
“We want to be ahead of the wave of disruption. Therefore, we are deliberately using modern technology to gain a business advantage”. Totto Befring, Infrastructure Services Manager at Wallenius Wilhelmsen.
Benefits
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- Business technologies and cloud transition risk control.
| - Increased pace of innovation for supporting Industry 4.0, including IoT, 5G and autonomation.
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- Better insight into its cloud costs leading to cost reductions of 40%.
| - A global delivery model supporting International Development Plans all around the globe.
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- A better scale-up capacity aligned with business.
| - Environmental benefits due to reduced emissions from data center aligned with a zero-emissions company objective.
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- Cybersecurity in the digital era.
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