The company is realizing significant benefits with AWS that weren’t possible on its on-premises infrastructure. “Speed, cost, and performance were issues with our previous infrastructure, but by using AWS we’re lowering time to market, saving money, and running systems on demand," Jankovic says. "Plus, we’re able to provide support to our customers quickly and cost-effectively with the reassurance that the environment we’re using is highly reliable and secure.”

Speed of system deployment is one of the most significant advantages for the firm. Jankovic continues, “With AWS, deploying new systems and implementing change requests are now much easier. For example, it used to take us between two and three weeks to deploy a new SAP system, but now it takes just five days. And this is getting faster as we use the platform more and more.”

Cost savings have followed, and will continue to accumulate as the impact of the AWS infrastructure is felt organization-wide. “Our processes are simplified with AWS, which is giving us big savings on IT maintenance," says Jankovic. "In addition, our infrastructure costs are massively reduced. We estimate that together these two factors will save us nearly $500,000 over the next five years.”

An additional benefit is that it’s now easy to allocate costs to the owners of the infrastructure. “It’s less of a management burden to control and report on infrastructure costs, which is also saving time for our staff,” says Jankovic.

With most new systems, training IT staff is a significant time and cost factor, but this wasn’t the case with AWS. Jankovic says, “Our IT professionals could apply existing skills to operate and maintain our AWS infrastructure. They found the platform extremely user-friendly and easy to operate. After just one month, all of our IT staff were completely comfortable using AWS.”

Satisfaction with the AWS system is high companywide. Jankovic concludes, “We haven’t had a single complaint or issue raised regarding our new system. This speaks volumes.”