Technology Magazine January 2023 | Page 222

CLARIANT
all of our applications – including all the business-critical applications and the 27 SAP landscapes – was to redesign , refactor and enter into infrastructure as a code .
“ The benefit of automation was very much key to our programme ' s success and enabled huge gains for our organisation .”

“ PRIOR TO OUR TRANSFORMATION , WE MAY HAVE NEEDED DAYS OR WEEKS IN ORDER TO DEPLOY SERVICES ; NOW , THANKS TO OUR AUTOMATION SYSTEMS , WE CAN DO THAT WITHIN HOURS OR MINUTES ”

ALI KHOSRAVI HEAD OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS , CLARIANT
Transforming the global network of 200 + sites in 50 + countries into first internet-only network The transformation of Clariant ’ s network was a prerequisite for the cloud automation and migration project because the chemical company needed much more bandwidth across each of their sites , in all of the countries their operations are based , “ because every site from that moment on would access the business-critical applications and SAP directly from that site ”. “ So , for us , increasing our bandwidth was critical – but , with the technology we had at the time , this would be extremely cost intensive .
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