MIGROS-GENOSSENSCHAFTS-BUND
“OUR CLOUD-FIRST APPROACH IS AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE FOR A TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN MIGROS ”
MARTIN BASCHNAGEL CTO AND GROUP CHIEF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT AT MIGROS
“ In order to stay ahead of the increasing customer expectations , we need to constantly optimise our IT landscape . This optimisation is only possible with full transparency of the architecture in place ” says Baschnagel .
A significant tech driver for Migros is cloud technology . “ Our cloud-first approach is a very important principle for Migros . Thereby it is important that we take a holistic view of the digital transformation and of the ‘ journey to the cloud ’ and take the opportunity to not only modernise the IT landscape but also to simplify it , consolidate it and decommission legacy systems , where possible ,” continues Baschnagel .
Based on that approach Migros has defined a Cloud Operating Model to optimise and evolve more than 2,700 group applications .
“ We have already been able to successfully transform over 550 applications into the cloud and benefit from the cloud advantages such as access to innovation , improved security , optimised elasticity , new resilience concepts and finally cost flexibility ,” says Baschnagel . “ Cloud is one of our biggest drivers .”
“ To predict the future is very hard . The only thing we really know for sure is that
42 August 2022