Case Study
Hosting Platform: Adoption Planning and Business Case

Customer Challenge
- Establish adoption pipeline for the next generation compute hosting platform against a very large application estate
- Build multi-year business case aligned to the adoption pipeline
How Citihub Helped
- Defined high level platform adoption model, aligned to key platform releases (Linux & Windows)
- Constructed multi-year business case based on future-state operating model and cost/benefits of new internal cloud platform
- Identified target applications for initial adoption across the global application community
- Worked with early adopters to migrate to the new platform and managed adoption challenges/blockers with the central engineering teams
Results
- Adoption approach defined and agreed across IT stakeholders
- Business case model (incl. assumptions/variables) ratified with head of infrastructure and signed-off with IT finance
- Oversaw initial adoption through to production for first 5 pilot applications (>500 servers)