Cloud Services
Business Reimagined: Connecting your Customers, People and Data for Secure Scalable Growth
Cloud-based solutions are imperative for organisations who are looking to reduce costs, remove legacy infrastructure and scale services to meet the demands of workloads in a sustainable way. With cloud-based software, business processes are streamlined by unifying business and customer data, document management and collaborative tools in one platform. For many organisations, cloud drives better insights, supports data-informed decision-making, enables modern collaboration and improves customer services, making organisations more competitive in today’s market.
Many organisations are using technology to improve customer and employee experiences, recognising that their businesses will be left behind if they fail to capitalise on technological innovations and embed them throughout their operations. Cloud is where innovation will happen most quickly. While some organisations are looking to hybrid cloud environments to optimise cost effectiveness and increase flexibility, cloud-based technologies represent the future, enabling more rapid innovation and easier scaling.
As a leading cloud partner, SCC will help you uncover these benefits and foster a culture of innovation, one that drives forward success of your business, underpinned by technology.
Many organisations are looking to modernise their legacy infrastructure to enhance operational efficiency, improve security and meet evolving customer demands. Legacy systems often lack the flexibility and scalability needed to support new technologies and regulatory requirements, making them more vulnerable to cyber threats and operational disruptions.
Modern infrastructure enables businesses to better leverage data analytics, AI and cloud technologies, providing more tailored and efficient services to customers while ensuring compliance with stringent security and regulatory standards.
SCC helps companies invest in scalable cloud platforms to migrate and modernise their infrastructure, setting you up for a successful future in the cloud. Our team of experts will consult with you on the best way forward using our pathfinder engagements to ensure you’re on the right track to success.
It’s no secret that technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate and some organisations are finding it hard to keep up due to a shortage of skills across the industry. In the past, hiring a team of cloud engineers was once enough, today IT teams should bring new skills, insights and ideas to support sustainable business growth underpinned by technology.
Advanced skills are expensive and hard to come by, leading some businesses to look for a cloud partner that can help them achieve their cloud ambitions, without the hefty price tag. Our suite of cloud managed services is underpinned by our proprietary IP and highly trained experts, allowing you to tap into a wide range of cloud skills, supporting your cloud initiatives now and in the future.
Whether you are looking for a partner to manage your environment, so you don’t have to, or you want a more customised managed service across different elements of your cloud environment including observability, cost management, application support, database management and more, we have got you covered.
To get and stay ahead organisations depend on extracting the value from their data to enhance operational efficiencies, improve client services and gain insights that lead to better decision-making and competitive advantage. The effective use of data can transform businesses to provide greater value to their end users while optimising their internal processes.
SCC are experts in helping organisations drive the value from their data utilising cloud-based data, analytics and database solutions. We can help your business leverage data analytics and visualisation solutions so you can track business performance, reduce costs and make faster decisions.
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Lancashire Insurance are a provider of global specialty insurance and reinsurance products operating in Bermuda and London across three delivery platforms: rated company, Lloyd’s and collateralised security. Their focus is on short-tail, specialty (re)insurance risks within four general segments: Property, Energy, Marine and Aviation.
Lancashire Insurance were looking for an IT partner who could support not only their short term objective of new services being enabled in the cloud, but also their long term objective of enabling all of their services in the cloud and modernising their IT infrastructure. Additionally, Lancashire had recently made a number of acquisitions which were operating independent back-office IT systems. To simplify the IT environment for all employees they wanted to consolidate these systems.
Lancashire awarded this opportunity to SCC following a previous successful engagement We displayed the credibility and skills required to deliver the service and the scale to flex in line with their growth. SCC were engaged to design the solution and build a road map for application/service migration.
The expertise and knowledge of SCC’s resource was key to supporting and leading them on their transformation journey. We helped to demonstrate what their future operating model would look like and the support pillars which were required. As part of this we delivered training sessions to the internal IT team to upskill them in line with the environment improvements. Microsoft Azure was chosen as the hosting platform, as they wanted a best of breed cloud provider and were comfortable with SCC’s skill level in Azure deployment and management.
By consolidating the disparate back-office systems onto one cloud platform, SCC has helped to not only reduce the cost associated with maintaining multiple IT environments but also improved the service received by end users. As part of the roadmap architectural work, SCC discovered areas of potential cost savings which were highlighted to the customer, for future consideration.
Following the successful delivery of the new Azure environment, SCC have become a trusted advisor for Lancashire, extending our support service lines to include ServiceNow and SD-Wan to further underpin their essential business operations and support their employees. The new environment has modernised Lancashire Insurance’s business operations, by delivering a scalable platform which can deliver services to support the business’s future growth aspirations. It allows them to become more agile and flexible, quickly bringing new service lines to market in line with their customers’ expectations and needs. It also offers their employees new ways of working, to increase productivity and workforce wellbeing.
