of those has presented its own unique set of challenges that we inherited , and these facilities are not the best environments for hosting technology . These are steel service centre facilities that don ' t always have the cleanest , most stable environment .”
Madda got to work identifying missioncritical systems and what systems could not afford to have any downtime . Data was shifted into data centres or into cloud facilities .
“ Part of the cloud migration strategy has been around consolidation ,” Madda adds .
“ We identify where there ' s a tonne of fragmentation within our business and where we can try to keep it simple .”
Automation processes play a huge role at UPG Enterprises in several areas . One specific area of focus is on the IT process and data . Since UPG is spread across 14 businesses and 27 locations , the company has a real need for efficient ERPs .
“ One of the things that we ' ve really focused on is the automation of pulling all this data together into a centralised location , where we can aggregate the data and make it visible ,” says Madda .
UPG Enterprises creates a level of visibility for the business that it lacked in the past , even on an individual level . However , through automation , data can now be pulled from each of these systems ,
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