“ While doing all of that , we have also changed the mindsets of our people to one that welcomes running the operation with DevOps .”
Partner Ecosystem : HCLTech & AWS Clariant would not have been able to undergo its cloud-migration transformation without its partner ecosystem . Collaboration was crucial , however agility was something that applied to the planning process as much as it did to their overall strategy .
Khosravi says that in the beginning they went to their suppliers and providers and outlined their vision for the future . “ And through all the discussions we came to understand that what we envisioned in regards to the automation platform , was something that we could not buy out-ofthe-box from our providers .
“ Over time , we learnt that , if we wanted to go down that path with providers , we had to pay them for the knowledge gained within their environment , and this was something that we refused to do .
“ That was the moment where we made the decision to insource the entire cloudhosting and automation platform , but we still needed a provider who could run and maintain the entire application operation .” For that piece , Clariant started an RFP
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