Technoform migrates resources to the Polcom cloud

Branch:Production

Key service:Cloud infrastructure (IaaS)

Technoform is a family-owned company with a global reach, with 14 production sites located around the world. The company extrudes plastic profiles and tubes in Europe, America, Asia and the Pacific. The company has more than 45 factories, employing more than 1,600 people.

The company’s innovative approach contributes to the development of its designs. Its specialised production methods have enabled it to become a leader in the field of thermoplastics, which Technoform has been involved in for more than 50 years.

Challenge

Technoform is a rapidly growing global company with many successful international projects to its credit. Its origins date back to 1969. Over time, the scale of the company’s activities has expanded significantly, and with it the range of solutions offered, the number of employees and the data processed.

The need to continuously increase the capacity of the IT infrastructure was driven by increasing customer expectations.

As a result, the costs of expanding and maintaining its own IT resources became increasingly difficult to estimate. The company also needed a solution that provided high availability and flexibility of the environment. Given the company’s global reach, it was also crucial to ensure that systems were secure at the highest level.

Solution

Technoform began looking for a partner that was able to tailor a solution to the company’s current needs and the changing requirements of manufacturing customers. Analysis of the market and available solutions showed that the answer to the company’s needs would be cloud services The company decided to locate its resources with one of the largest cloud providers for business – the Polcom Data Centre.

Companies in the manufacturing industry cannot afford downtime and the cloud provides high availability and continuity of systems. Cloud computing makes it possible to minimise the risks associated with hardware failures or other technical problems.

What’s more, the cloud allows flexible scaling of resources, which is particularly important in the manufacturing industry, where demand for individual products can vary annually Migrating resources to a cloud environment in the cloud allows computing power, storage space and other resources to be adapted to current needs, which can help to manage production efficiently. Cloud computing also helps to optimise the costs associated with your own IT infrastructure. All IT resources are provided in a service model billed on a monthly subscription basis – this means that charges for cloud services are based on actual resource usage.

Effects

Scalability

The cloud model enables unlimited scalability to match market fluctuations

Cost optimisation

Cloud computing has helped to optimise costs and enable more precise planning of future investments

Flexibility

The cloud allows rapid adaptation to changing business and economic conditions

A global market presence does not mean a one-size-fits-all approach to every project. We understand the variation between specific regions and make every effort to build local values tailored to the needs of the area. We develop dedicated solutions together with our clients, and with our commitment and uncompromising approach to service quality, we can develop projects around the world.

For a company focused on innovation, migration to the cloud is the natural order of things. We chose Polcom as our IT partner because, like us, it offers a project-based approach and business-specific services. This collaboration has enabled us not only to increase flexibility and availability, which is extremely important for a company in our industry, but also to optimise costs. This, in turn, allows us to put the money saved towards other goals – directly related to the development of our company and building competitive advantages.

Tomasz Tarnowski Managing director

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