PLUS is the cooperative house for independent supermarket entrepreneurs in the Netherlands with sustainable business operations as a common goal. It is the supermarket formula with which PLUS Holding B.V. manifests itself in the market. With around 270 stores throughout the country, PLUS is known to almost everyone.
PLUS has taken on an enormous digital transformation challenge in recent years. One of the crucial foundations for PLUS's digital strategy was getting more out of cloud-native technology. A major desire was to integrate the Public Cloud, thoroughly but pragmatically, into the complex landscape of the food retail value chains.
Digital Survival Company has been asked to create a cloud strategy and roadmap for PLUS in the discovery phase. Based on the workshop approach completed together, this resulted in a multi-cloud strategy and a clear cloud roadmap. A financial business case has also been set up for the cloud transformation. Subsequently, based on our cloud foundation framework, a conscious choice was made based on the functional requirements to accommodate one part of the landscape in Azure and the other part in AWS.
This multi-cloud approach resulted in two landing zones, after which we started migrating workloads based on our proven infrastructure-as-code approach. After completing the workload migrations, we took over the 24/7 management of all workloads in Azure and AWS. To this day, this is running like a charm and the rest of the cloud transformation is planned in the coming periods.
Results at a glance
- A pragmatic cloud strategy that fits in with PLUS's business and IT.
- A financial business case for the cloud transformation.
- A cloud roadmap based on the 6R model.
- Two designed and configured cloud landing zones: Azure and AWS.
- Migration of batches of workloads to the relevant landing zones.
- Managed Services (DevOps) from our multidisciplinary Cloud Platform team.