Boosting Syngenta the cloud-native way.
We helped Syngenta save half a million euro a month and boost agility in the cloud. Here’s how we did it.
How do you know if you’re working with the right cloud managed services provider?
Ask Syngenta, and they’d probably say the right partner is cloud-native. One that looks after your cloud environment in a reliable way while boosting agility, increasing speed to market, and unearthing major cost savings.
Syngenta is a leading Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company. Helping farmers improve yield, increase profitability and grow more sustainably are key factors underpinning the company’s strategy.
AWS and data play major roles in connecting farmers with their technologies. Syngenta has a strong cloud and IT team, and were used to working with traditional CSIs to manage their environments.
Syngenta started working with Nordcloud in 2020. At first, we came in to help migrate some workloads to AWS. It was an opportunity to sow the seeds of a different, cloud-native approach.
Manual tasks that might’ve taken many hours previously could be completed in 10 minutes or less. Account vending processes that used to take many days were shortened to 5 hours.
There was a clear difference in how lean and nimble this approach was.
So, when the team needed help with automations on AWS, we also got involved with those. The result: manual tasks that might’ve taken many hours previously could be completed in 10 minutes or less. Account vending processes that used to take many days were shortened to 5 hours.
Then the cost savings. Our managed FinOps experts took a microscope to the environment to identify potential savings. They harvested information around rightsizing, utilisation, and resource optimisation, identifying half a million euro a month in cloud savings.
It’s this added value that means some of the biggest and best companies are shifting to cloud-native MSPs to look after their cloud environments.
Cloud natives know how to boost performance while reducing costs. They’ll deliver best practices to drive efficiencies. They make clever improvements that cut licence and capacity costs or reduce technical or security risks.
Cloud natives strengthen security without slowing enterprises down. They know how to implement best-practice AWS governance, take care of security operations, or conduct a Zero-Trust maturity assessment.
The impact of this approach is an agile, secure and reliable cloud team and AWS environment that empowers the entire organisation.
The impact of this approach is an agile, secure and reliable cloud team and AWS environment that empowers the entire organisation.
And why couldn’t Syngenta’s traditional CSIs deliver this?
We have the technical knowhow that bigger SI’s don’t have. We break down the complexity. We have the engineers as well as the consultants. So we’re able to really get in there, under the hood. We do the hard stuff and then share the knowledge, which enterprise architects and CTOs really appreciate.
Ready to see the benefits of cloud-native managed services for your business? Find out more about our AWS MSP approach here.
Harvesting information around rightsizing, utilisation, and resource optimisation, we identified half a million euro a month in cloud savings.
