Summary
Oerlikon is a leading multinational provider of surface technology. The TT PSC team provided the company with a solution that reduced operating costs, standardized processes, and improved their cloud-based infrastructure.
Founded in 1906, the company offers customers and business partners the widest possible range of intelligent, innovative, and efficient surface treatment technologies, in-house manufacturing machines, and additive manufacturing. Oerlikon reached sales of 2.7 billion Swiss francs in 2023 and currently employs more than 12,000 people in 58 countries.
Business challenges
- High operating costs of cloud applications.
- Increased application maintenance costs due to incomplete migrations.
- Inconsistencies in the system and in resource management.
Solution
- Identification of all system components of products and applications.
- Assignment and qualification of results and prioritization of relevance.
- Contextualization of system components.
- Establishment of guidelines for security, access, storage, and processing, as well as backup protocols, applied to the application environment.
- Disabling non-essential system components and services.
- Migration of components to alternative service levels or policy-compliant redundancy levels.
Results
- Reduced operating costs and achieved a return on investment in the shortest possible time.
- Decreased maintenance efforts and improved component maintenance.
- Enhanced system transparency.
- Developed a plan for future application development.
