Modern Workplace Implementation

Challenge

A leading multinational company tasked GDC Services with transitioning infrastructure from 100+ local data centers and connected endpoints to a global Azure platform while enhancing end user productivity, bringing cloud technology experience and ensuring agility to regional end users’ needs.

Solution

GDC Services designed and deployed a tailored Microsoft implementation of Modern Workplace concept, meeting legal data residency requirements and ensuring a seamless transition:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Delivered a reliable Azure-based business platform in 3 months, enabling cloud benefits without business disruption.
• Workplace Services: Supported 800,000 daily authentications and 5,200 app integrations via Microsoft Identity Manager.
• Device Migration: Transitioned 45,000 devices to Windows 10.
• Active Directory: Migrated 285 domain controllers, centralizing user management.

Results

• Centralized Collaboration: Enabled cohesive global teamwork with access to shared resources anytime, anywhere.
• Enhanced User Satisfaction: Supported 57,000 users with improved productivity via Microsoft 365 features across cloud and on-premise components.
• Cost Efficiency: Cost reduction in hardware requirements, removing the high cost of hardware and introducing a consumption model where the customer simply pays for the resources as it consumes them
• Agility and Scalability: Delivered flexible IT responses through the ability to scale up the capacity brought by cloud, drawing on the remote support teams.
• Automatic software updates: We designed the Azure platform to be Evergreen, enabling the customer to be on the latest platform without the need to refresh the program again.