ASK Chemicals enables Cloud-First

In view of the challenges of digitalization, there is hardly any way around the cloud. ASK Chemicals recognized this and, with the help of Arvato Systems, migrated its entire IT infrastructure to the cloud in ten months: a cloud-first approach.

In total, 78 systems at ASK Chemicals were part of the project scope of the major cloud migration. Arvato Systems simply transferred 56 systems via lift and shift, 15 were replaced with new solutions or re-designs during the migration, and seven systems ultimately remained where they were. After the 2020 migration had just begun, the Corona pandemic broke out. ASK Chemicals' home office requirement could only be met with appropriate concepts, bandwidth and cloud technology.

Thanks to good planning, it was just a matter of accelerating the cloud migration. Office 365, for example, was rolled out within just twelve weeks - for the more than 20 companies of ASK Chemicals, in all 20 countries. The use of Microsoft Teams, which was not originally planned, proved to be a great advantage for (international) collaboration under the pandemic conditions. All in all, Arvato Systems successfully migrated 158 servers, 21 SQL databases and 15 SAP systems alone from ASK Chemicals to the cloud within ten months.