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Avanade helps Treasury Wine Estates Journey to the Cloud Case Study Avanade helps Treasury Wine Estates Journey to the Cloud

Treasury Wine Estates Journeys to Operationally, due to global reach, for the prompt consumption of Office Cloud with Office 365 and Azure On-Premise Email system was 365 services by the organisation to Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is a distributed over TWE two major sites, enable the cost savings associated unique global wine company with a to serve all users globally. Over 3500 with moving to Office 365. leading international portfolio of over mailboxes were migrated from data 80 brands of new world wines. centres located in and Utilising components of Avanade Napa Valley. Migrations were Connected Methods to formulate a From the establishment of Australia’s scheduled when local users were out migration plan and Avanade's assets in the mid 1840s to the 1876 of business hours, this was done to to augment TWE's IT resources, the founding of Beringer Vineyards, a ensure minimal disruption from an plan included the leverage of legacy that includes other end user perspective. TWE also Avanade's Global Delivery Network globally recognised and awarded required the migration to align with during the execution phase of the wines: Wynns Coonawarra Estate, their desktop refresh project to migration project. The consumption of Yellowglen, Lindeman’s, Rosemount Windows 7. Avanade’s managed services resources Estate and . meant the project worked around the This was due to issues experienced clock and during each countries With 11,000 hectares of vineyards, with Windows XP during pilot phases downtime - hence minimising sales of 30 million cases of wine plus allowed TWE to be up to date disruption to everyday business annually, and revenues of about with latest version of Office activity. AU$1.7 billion, TWE employs more productivity suite which ensures all than 3,000 winemakers, viticulturists, capabilities are available to end users Results Realized sales, distribution and support staff subscribing to Office 365. TWE saw immediate benefits of across 16 countries. It is imperative the project: 1) TWE’s migration to that their communications and Avanade’s Solution Exchange Online increased mailbox IT run smoothly to maintain their TWE searched for a global partner size 50 times from previous average customer service promises as well as with a similar footprint and chose mailbox size reducing the need to their operational competitiveness. Avanade to help in preparing their archive and lose valuable time in environment for co-existence with searching for information. 2) They Business Situation Office 365 and to design and reduced their IT operating costs by TWE decided to migrate its On- implement a migration plan to removing on premise email hardware Premise messaging system to Exchange Online. Avanade listened to requirements. Especially beneficial Exchange Online - the email TWEs needs as well as understanding was the notably reduced SAN storage, component of Office 365. their future plans to present the best which resulted in cost savings and will solution for the company in its now be recycled for other services. 3) The engagement was realised due to competitive market. Exchange Online also improved the TWE leadership’s desire for their overall mail system availability and in-house IT team to utilise their TWE selected Avanade for their deep contributes to the competitiveness of expertise in more strategically valued Microsoft expertise. The experience the company. activity. The removal of the displayed by the team in setting up commoditised mail management On-Premise co-existence technologies Meanwhile TWE is prepared to burden from the IT department with Office 365 including Single Sign- activate and optimize other Office 365 thus freed these professionals On, DirSync and Exchange Hybrid technologies which will position the to engage on higher valued Deployment ensured a quick company as a more agile organization projects. turnaround for the customer going for future automation plans. from pilot to production. This allowed Case Study Avanade helps Treasury Wine Estates Journey to the Cloud

Finally, Avanade through Office 365 “Avanade helped TWE migrate has enabled TWE to introduce the messaging and deploy Microsoft most-up-to-date cloud-based Office 365 in a short time frame Microsoft technologies and allow its while reducing risk to our end-users. employees to communicate, Office 365 now enables us to scale collaborate, and innovate with each further globally with great agility to other anytime, anywhere. grow our iconic portfolio of wine brands. Avanade has a deep Since the success of the Office 365 understanding of the technology project, TWE continues to engage platform and brought to our Avanade to help optimize their organisation planning tools and IP Microsoft Platform investments, that helped us scope, prepare and including the implementation drive Release Planning, Scheduling, of the web management system Communication Planning, Change Sitecore, based on Microsoft Azure Enablement and Service Introduction” cloud, designed and built for mobile responsiveness for their website: - Ash Peck, CIO, Treasury Wine Estates www.penfolds.com. The new website has seen an eradication of what was hundreds of damaging and unplanned outages. The stability showcased by the new Azure cloud based implementation positively assists in the modernization and improvement of TWEs relationship and experience with its customer base, both users and clients.

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