CLARIANT we knew that , by June 2022 , all of our on-prem data centre contracts would expire , so we needed a fast return on investment ( ROI ) as well .”
Clariant decided to take close to 150 % of the yearly savings they wanted to generate as a one-time project budget , and used that to migrate and accomplish their programme within two years .
“ We understood that , due to the challenges of time constraints , standard project methodologies would not be fit for purpose , meaning all of this needed to be very agile ,” says Khosravi . “ So we required independent teams to delegate responsibility and to fail fast , but also to learn fast , as a principle .”
For Clariant , it was ultimately this agile approach that enabled the success of their programme .
Tech transformation into fully automated provisioning and maintenance Clariant decided that they would not do a lift-and-shift migration . They knew that going from their on-prem environment into the cloud bottom-line would achieve nothing more than a different charging model .
A simple lift-and-shift would have allowed them to enter the pay-per-use model , but it would have also meant that they couldn ' t have achieved cost reductions , efficiency gains , greater speed , significance and quality improvements . “ So what we did with
40 % We have reduced 40 % of our overall server landscape through the consolidation
EXECUTIVE BIO
ALI KHOSRAVI
TITLE : HEAD OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS
INDUSTRY : CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING LOCATION : BASEL , SWITZERLAND
Khosravi started his career as an IT
Engineer in 2003 . Two years later he became the Head of IT Support and Infrastructure at Bridgestone . In 2008 he joined Compass Group as the Head of IT Services for Europe . Both roles were located in Frankfurt , Germany .
Relocating to Basel , Switzerland in 2012 , Khosarvai first joined Clariant as Manager of Global Datacenter Services .
He spent three years at Actelion International as Head of Global Infrastructure and Operations before returning to Clariant in his current position .
As Head of Global Technology Operations , he is responsible for managing international teams and vendors to deliver major IT technology projects .