Selex ES Streamlines Applications by Moving SAP to the Cloud
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Success Story: Selex ES Selex ES streamlines applications by moving SAP to the cloud Client name: SELEX ES U.K. HQ Location: Basildon, U.K. Industry: Aerospace & Defense Electronics Employees: 17,000 Success Story: Selex ES Challenge: Quick consolidation • Allow operations across the U.K. and Italy to operate as a single Selex ES was formed in 2013 when its parent company, Italian aerospace and company security firm Finmeccanica, combined three separate operations — SELEX Elsag, SELEX Galileo and SELEX Sistemi Integrati — into a single organization. The • Consolidate multiple IT resulting company is an international leader in defense and cybersecurity systems, infrastructures with operations in both the U.K. and Italy. The first challenge for Selex ES was to Solution: consolidate operations and run them as a single company. • Migrate to private cloud services Selex ES management also needed to move quickly and efficiently. Its mandate included reducing overhead, consolidating the product range and expanding into • Consolidate to a single instance new geographies, especially Brazil and India. Given Selex ES’ 17,000 employees, long of SAP enterprise-systems list of technologically advanced products and revenue in excess of €3.2 billion, that platform and migrate it to the would be no small undertaking. cloud Results: The IT challenges facing Selex ES’ leaders were no less daunting. These challenges • Reduced overhead costs included integrating multiple data and communications networks to support the new, international workforce; creating a single, integrated operating environment to • Faster speed to market help Selex ES take advantage of synergies across the three merged businesses; and • New infrastructure in place for establishing a systems platform that would combine low costs with both flexibility the future and speed. What’s more, these tasks had to be accomplished in just 6 months. Long-term partnership For support on this massive project, Selex ES turned to DXC Technology. Selex ES management knew DXC could be relied upon and trusted, as former Selex ES businesses in the U.K. had relied on DXC since 2000 for help desk, desktop support, data center operations, network management and other services. “We share very openly,” says Dave Gibbons, Selex ES’ VP of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) operations in the U.K., “and CSC (now DXC) provides significant strategic support for us.” DXC’s solution featured a private cloud infrastructure that would empower Selex ES to consolidate its core enterprise systems into a single SAP instance. The private cloud, as proposed by DXC, enabled a cost-effective environment where resources could be ramped up and down according to the phase of the program, replaced the existing SAP production infrastructure, and also enabled Selex ES to stand up other computing and storage resources as needed, including a fleet of midrange servers. At the heart of the solution was the preconfigured VCE Vblock platform that meant the facility would be up and running with the entire migration complete in a challenging timeframe of just 6 months. “We knew we needed to move quickly, and we needed it to be right,” Gibbons says. “CSC (now DXC) brought a very robust methodology that would enable us to move rapidly and with great confidence that we would achieve the timescales needed to support the business.” Private cloud solution The project moved ahead as planned. DXC implemented a private cloud for Selex ES and migrated to its single instance of SAP. Perhaps even more importantly, DXC 2 Success Story: Selex ES “We operate as one team. also created an integrated infrastructure for Selex ES that can be used to act on new That’s true whether it’s a Selex initiatives quickly and cost-efficiently. “Cloud is now a key part of our strategy,” ES employee or a CSC (now Gibbons says. “We see it as very important. Cloud enables us to be more agile and to DXC) employee; we’re all part implement new facilities very quickly.” of the ICT team delivering into the business.” For example, Gibbons says, Selex ES will soon use its private cloud as an infrastructure for consolidating more traditional systems, including midrange Dave Gibbons, VP, Information servers, thereby lowering the company’s expenses while raising its efficiencies. “In and Communications Technology (ICT) U.K. Operations, Selex ES a marketplace that’s moving quickly, we need to be agile with the standup of new facilities,” he says. “The cloud environment is perfect for that.” Lower costs are one early and important benefit from Selex ES’ new private cloud. The company operates in highly competitive markets, meaning it needs to offer its customers value for money, with products at the lowest prices possible. One way to do that and still earn a profit is by lowering internal operating expenses, which is exactly what Selex ES private cloud has achieved. “The private cloud environment is very flexible,” Gibbons says. “So we can ramp up and ramp down our various resources quickly — and control our costs”. Operating as a single team Key to the entire project has been an extremely close working relationship between DXC and Selex ES. “We operate as one team,” Gibbons says. “That’s true whether it’s a Selex ES employee or a CSC (now DXC) employee; we’re all part of the ICT team delivering into the business.” He adds that DXC’s deep experience in both the public sector and the defense industry has also proven invaluable, “After 14 years of working together, we have built a synergistic relationship, rather than a commercial supplier arrangement, and that’s been very important to us.” Gibbons says, “CSC (now DXC) is heavily embedded in the defense markets in their own operations, so they’re able to bring us strategic direction and value-creating business insights, as well as world-class IT expertise and resources.” About DXC DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping Learn more about private clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public cloud options at sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner alliance combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is www.dxc.technology/ recognized among the best corporate citizens globally. For more information, visit www.dxc.technology. cloud. © 2017 DXC Technology Company. All rights reserved. DXC_CSC-258.March 2017.