The challenge
An Auckland manufacturing company was running critical systems on servers approaching end of life. Their ERP system, file storage, and production planning tools all lived on hardware that was increasingly unreliable. Every time something failed, it affected production.
Our approach
We designed a migration plan that moved them to Azure infrastructure while maintaining their existing workflows. The key was doing it without disrupting production. We migrated systems in stages, moving non-critical workloads first to prove the approach, then tackling the ERP migration over a planned weekend.
The outcome
The transition went smoothly because we had done the groundwork. Staff came in Monday morning to find everything working as expected, just faster and more reliable. Their IT person, who had been spending most of their time firefighting server issues, could finally focus on improvements rather than keeping old hardware alive. Since migration, they have achieved 99.9% uptime, and production downtime due to IT issues has dropped by 85%.
