Cloudification of the controlling solution for Slovak Telekom,
T-mobile Czech Republic (Deutsche Telekom)
Delivered services
- Creating and configuring cloud infrastructure
- PaaS Solution
Technologies and platforms
- MS Azure Cloud (Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Cloud Services, Azure Blob Store, Azure SQL)
The Customer - Slovak Telekom, T-mobile Czech Republic
Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile CZ are among the largest multimedia operators on the Slovak and Czech markets. They are part of the multinational Deutsche Telekom Group, the world's leading telecommunications company, providing services to more than 180 million customers in 50 countries around the world. The companies present themselves as technology leaders, offering innovative solutions and the latest technological trends, drawing on international expertise to satisfy even the most demanding customers.
Being innovative and a technological leader requires constant progress, stability and, above all, a provider that operates at the highest professional level in its segment. This was also the reason for the successful and continuous cooperation in the development of digitalisation and IT modernisation.
The Issue
The existing on-premise infrastructure did not meet the requirements defined by the Human Resources Department. The deployment of a new controlling solution for human resources management required independence from the existing infrastructure due to the handling of sensitive employee data. The necessity of the solution also arose from the need for significantly more flexibility in terms of deployment of the solution, management and deployment of applied changes, on a timescale of weeks/months.
The requirements for the solution included:
- accessible only to the HR department,
- easy to use and maintain, for the HR department only,
- minimising the cost of upgrading the technical infrastructure,
- online capability and rapid scalability for application development.
Solution
The ideal solution (which met both the technical and business requirements) was to migrate to MS Azure cloud infrastructure. An innovative project was undertaken to cloudify not only existing solutions but also new ones.
The owner of the used MS Azure services (Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Cloud Services, Azur Blob Store, Azure SQL) became the sole owner of the HR Controlling department without the need for management, maintenance and operational support of IT resources. The PaaS solution offers zero fixed and low operational costs, with no CAL license required. Setup, configuration, migration of the solution, including documentation and training was comprehensively provided by the vendor. The implementation was carried out including security at the object level with the ability to manage access at the organisational structure level.
Results and benefits
The implementation of cloudification mainly results in rapid prototype preparation, migration and subsequent change management. HR Controlling can quickly and efficiently reflect the necessary changes in weeks/months, without the need and impact of IT operations. Of course, seamless online scalability is fully within the HR department's control.
- Higher performance, lower costs, better scalability.
- Owner and access to data only HR Controlling department
- The owner has access to all data (source/processing), all measures and all results.
- Business departments have access only to predefined results/self-service at employee level.
- IT has no access to data.
- HR expertise - key user/solution manager.