Building a repeatable approach to adopting transformational services
With a change in its mission, the team from Maureen Data Systems worked to identify all of the potential blockers standing in the way of Riverside’s transformation.
The team from Maureen Data Systems conducted an initial assessment over the course of three days. From that assessment, the team was able to identify the five primary blockers that stood in the way of the customer’s transformation while also identifying any downstream applications that depended on the systems identified as blockers.
“The blockers we identified with Riverside were similar to those we had seen in other organizations looking to move to the cloud—they were running on-premises Active Directory, had on-premises servers, and were reliant on applications that depended on those on-premises systems,” said Michael Fiorito, Executive VP of Maureen Data Systems.
From there, the team identified and contrasted the total cost per year associated with the customer’s on-premises systems and highlighted the possible savings the customer would experience. Following this initial envisioning phase, implementation began in earnest.
Achieving true organizational flexibility in the cloud
After spending three days envisioning Riverside’s new environment, the team at Maureen Data Systems was able to complete the rest of the project over a four-month period—an impressive feat, given the thousands of users affected.
“We moved the customer to an online file system using SharePoint and OneDrive while working to ensure user adoption. In parallel, we set up the infrastructure needed to roll out Windows 10, configured security politics for Enterprise Mobility Services (EMS), and defined application-level access for users,” said Michael Trachtenberg, CTO of Maureen Data Systems.
Riverside is now fully migrated to its new cloud environment and is experiencing firsthand the operational flexibility afforded by cloud services. What’s more, Riverside has been able to apply the learnings from its own transformation to the organizations with which it partners.
“Riverside invests in companies and allows them to operate independently, while offering guidance on HR, operations, finance, and now technology. Throughout the engagement, we approached Riverside’s transformation with a methodological approach that was designed to scale to these downstream businesses. Now, Riverside can reproduce this model themselves and enable these partner organizations with modern technologies and a true cloud-first mentality.”
As a result of this successful partnership, the team from Maureen Data Systems has been invited to speak regarding digital transformation at Riverside’s annual conference. Using the learnings from the engagement, Maureen Data Systems has developed a repeatable approach that has already been implemented to tremendous success among the firm’s other customers.