Understanding the true cost of cloud through expert and tools-based analysis

A key reason cited by IT executives for moving to cloud is cost efficiencies. Cloud certainly has become ubiquitously linked to “cost saving”, but for some cloud adopters the reality can be very different than the theory. This is where Keytree can help.

Understanding current costs, forecasting the equivalent cloud deployment and managing and optimising the ongoing costs of cloud need to be a fundamental part of any company’s cloud strategy. Without this, the benefits of true pay per use cloud computing can be difficult to achieve. The incredible advances in cloud technologies, underpinned by the huge investments by the hyperscalers, has seen an exponential growth in cloud deployments.

Solution Overview

Key Features

  • Keytree experts and tooling providing comprehensive cloud economic analysis
  • Analyse the current utilisation of workloads running on-premise
  • Forecast the cost of the cloud deployment before moving any workloads
  • Monitor and manage cloud workloads to ensure that they are always fully optimised

Benefits

  • Experts – Keytree have technical experts in SAP and cloud services analyse systems to optimise their efficiency in line with customer requirements
  • AI Powered Tooling – Keytree using AI powered tooling which can analyse vast qualities of data and make intelligent recommendations
  • Immediate Results – Start to see outputs from our analysis immediately, allowing corrective actions to rapidly realise benefits
  • Lifecycle Service – Our service can help at any and all stages of the cloud journey, ensuring cost efficiency is fundament to your strategy

How it works

  • Our experts and tools provide deep insight into your cloud usage
  • We optimise your footprint to a true pay per cost model, wherever you are on the cloud journey
  • We can perform a one-off analysis to inform a business case for cloud, or provide an enduring service that supports your migration to cloud and the ongoing management of those services

“Submitting a funding application meant users had to navigate a range of legacy systems, which was time-consuming and inefficient. The Open Project System, created by Keytree, collates and combines all information in one centralised system, making the application process faster and easier for applicants to navigate. Exactly what we wanted.”

Greater London Authority

The Keytree Solution

In order to ensure that cost saving is part of your cloud deployment, it must be a fundamental part of the cloud strategy from the very first day. Keytree’s Cloud Methodology:

  • Weaves analysis of cloud economics through every step, ensuring that cost savings are a factor in every decision that is made
  • We use a combination of our cloud experts with their knowledge of cloud deployments and best practices for applications and tooling that analyses vast amounts of performance data using AI
  • We look at the true cost of your on-premise infrastructure and applications and forecast the cloud costs before a single workload has been moved
  • Once the solution is deployed, the same tools and experts will be monitoring and optimising to ensure that cost saving is part of the full lifecycle

Case Studies

  • Jaguar Land Rover

    Keytree and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) partnered in 2012 to migrate their SAP CRM and SAP BW systems on to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform. In a matter of days, JLR had their Single View CRM (SV-CRM) environments up and running on a secure and scalable platform, which privately connects to their users and IT systems. Six years later and the solution continues to grow – currently reaching more than 30 countries across the globe, integrating with dozens of systems.

    In 2017, Keytree migrated the SV-CRM systems on to the SAP HANA platform backed by AWS X1 instances – to improve system performance and unlock functions and capabilities that could not be contemplated before.

    Keytree’s delivery methodology and the domain knowledge gleaned through the long-standing and successful partnership with JLR proved essential when rolling out this global solution. Keytree and JLR continue to extract every possible benefit from the AWS Cloud and the next part of the journey is the expansion of SV-CRM into China.

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  • Cadent Gas

    National Grid Gas Distribution, renamed Cadent Gas, is responsible for the gas pipes that supply around 11 million businesses, schools and homes across the UK. To support the rebranding of the newly named organisation, Keytree worked closely with all stakeholders who contributed ideas for the development of the website, running requirements gathering workshops to understand all business needs.

    Follow-up workshops with the same stakeholders defined target audiences, critical tasks and customer journey mapping for each user type. The information gathered was used to create a new set of personas, representing each target audience and by leveraging the content audit work, which was carried out hand-in-hand with the content strategy team, a decision was made as to what content was relevant to each target audience.

    A sketched journey using low fidelity wireframes was then fashioned to gain stakeholder buy-in to the Keytree vision of how the site would be structured. Wireframes were created to represent each key screen, and as both content and navigation were made lean, Keytree also carried out a card-sort exercise to confirm navigation for the new website.

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  • Greater London Authority

    Keytree are renowned specialists in both cloud technology, working jointly with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and agile working – the methodology applied by Keytree to deliver the Open Project System (OPS), a more simplified and efficient way for recognised GLA providers to apply for funds.

    GLA OPS uses AWS ElasticBeanstalk to simplify the deployment and scalability of the application, providing capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling and application health monitoring which is integrated with AWS CloudWatch to provide dashboards and alerting of potential issues. The open-source PostgreSQL database running on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is used to store and manage the application data.

    By using these Platform as a Service (PaaS) components provided by AWS, the Keytree development team have been able to spend less time dealing with the intricacies of environment and server configurations and more time on the business functionality being provided, with the assurance that the underlying security, reliability and scalability of these services are proven and well managed.

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Keytree on Cloud

Keytree is a Cloud Lifecycle Partner, offering customers our tooling and expertise to optimise their cloud deployments wherever they are in their journey. We have been designing, migrating, deploying and supporting our customers on cloud platforms since 2010, with our first production go-live in 2012. We have a deep knowledge of SAP and Cloud Platforms which allows us to deliver innovative solutions that get the best out of SAP and the Cloud. From building the business case, migrating or deploying the workload, through to support and management, Keytree offers a full cloud lifecycle service built around our experts, enterprise class automation, and tooling.

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