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Case: Leveraging local and global IT services through a hybrid cloud setup.
ANDRITZ is an international technology group providing plants, systems, equipment, and services for various industries. The company is one of the technology and global market leaders in the hydropower business, the pulp and paper industry, the metal working and steel industries, and in solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial segments as well as for animal feed and biomass pelleting.
The listed Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria. With almost 170 years of experience, approximately 29,600 employees, and more than 280 locations in over 40 countries worldwide.
Andritz has decades of experience designing and building feed and biomass plants; including engineering, installation, start-up, and commissioning, as well as aftermarket parts and service. This experience has resulted in hundreds of successful feed and biomass plants all over the world.
The ANDRITZ Feed and Biofuel division headquartered in Esbjerg, Denmark, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of technology and services for the animal feed, aqua feed, pet food, and biofuel industries.
They offer an extensive line of equipment for the production of high-quality feed and biomass products. They pair their equipment with state of the art automation solutions to ensure full process traceability.
For the last decade ANDRITZ Feed & Biofuel’s IT department has undergone a transition from traditional IT on-premise, to operational management of global IT services and intensive support for local business units.
The IT department in Denmark supports several of the group locations worldwide and hence, many different end-user requirements. As local coordination and planning processes have grown significantly, ANDRITZ Feed & Biofuel’s local offices face high demands for shorter implementation cycles of global IT services. Factors such as agility and flexibility are critical, as the employees in the local IT department have made a transition from experts within their specific areas of IT, to support for business units, and project managers for all local aspects within a global IT services setup.
With access to 2.000+ applications in a global landscape and more than 100TB of data storage, predictability, performance and compliance are key elements, no matter whether the user has VDI access or operates on a fat client. The cloud must deliver a secure high-performance setup for all users and cover the many different business requirements and needs.
IT system specialist Mogens Andersen explains: “We researched the market for an agile high-performance cloud platform, providing the predictability and flexibility needed today. We wanted to leave platform architecture, maintenance, upgrades, patching, scaling, monitoring and documentation to a specialized company within high-performance cloud computing. Our focus needed a shift from non-stop operations mode, to being local site specialists efficiently implementing new global IT services.”
As such, a new focus for the IT department, and a breakdown of requirements within the different levels of the organization has evolved.
As manufacturer of production plants, a new platform must secure the best possible footprint in the Fourth Industrial Revolution:
Establishment of local procedures, securing ANDRITZ strategies the best possible way:
“In the search for a solution which could meet our ambitions and handle our challenges, we quickly came across Lean-On’s high-performance cloud as an ideal platform for a hybrid setup,” Mogens Andersen explains.
“The addition of a private cloud at Lean-On, has meant a true extension of our own on-premise private cloud/datacenter. Now we provide a platform that can leverage workflows, supporting the corporate strategies and procedures.”
The hybrid cloud solution with Lean-On operates within 6 key areas at ANDRITZ:
“The performance and predictability of our hybrid cloud setup with Lean-On, have enabled a successful transition from traditional on-premise IT into an agile cloud distribution of global cloud services. The scalability and readiness we now have at hand for future business demands are truly remarkable. To be able to manage IT in a complex division with a turnover last year of 1,5 bn. DKK, with our lean and high-performance IT setup, brings huge value to our organization. It provides business agility within our highly competitive market space.”
When asked about the future plans Mogens Andersen elaborates: “ANDRITZ Feed & Biofuel works closely with Lean-On. They have developed a significant understanding of our business and organization, which I truly believe adds to the operational excellence that we have today. Keeping our cloud-first strategy in mind, I need a business partner who can understand our business and support it, without loosing focus of governance and agility.
As Lean-On constantly adds new cloud computing services to their platform, support of all our users’ needs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution can continue to improve.”
