With more than 300 operations in 33 countries and serving customers in 85 nations, Sonoco faced a pressing global need for standardized, consistent quality of support and agility for its IT environment. Prior to its decision to migrate to hybrid cloud, Sonoco partnered with Ensono for nearly a decade, initially leveraging Ensono’s mainframe management services. When Sonoco began to expand its global presence, it relied on Ensono to build a cloud-first strategy. Cloud data centers provide improved reach, allowing Sonoco to bring acquisitions into the IT fold more quickly, reducing the number of disparate IT solutions. As it continues to execute a global growth strategy, a hybrid cloud environment will provide Sonoco with the flexibility to operate consistently and at scale in Europe, Asia and South America.
Additionally, a hybrid cloud model provides Sonoco with economic value so it can direct costs toward new developments focused on improving customer outcomes, which includes deploying sensors on printing machines to better understand bottlenecks in production, as well as data analytics incorporating IoT-based insights for Sonoco’s clients.
“Ensono has been a vital partner to Sonoco in our long history of mainframe, network and distributed computing management,” said Ben Chan, CIO and vice president of global IT at Sonoco. “Their flexibility in allowing us to transition between platforms and deep Microsoft Azure managed services expertise furthered our confidence that they will take us in the right direction. Optimizing IT costs and increasing investments toward innovations in IoT and production were key drivers behind our transformation to the cloud, and Ensono’s Azure managed public cloud services allows us to focus on strategic business vision while they do the DevOps work to keep us running.”
Ensono will help Sonoco execute its right workload, right platform global strategy, moving a high volume of applications to the Azure public cloud. Systems that cannot be moved to public cloud or need proximity to systems that cannot be moved will be hosted on Ensono Cloud due to its proximity to their legacy hosted systems.
“Ensono has a unique ability to transition with our clients, adapting their IT systems to their current and future needs. I’m honored Sonoco trusted us to continue managing their IT environment, leading its migration from mainframe to hybrid cloud,” said Jeff VonDeylen, CEO at Ensono. “I have no doubt our private cloud environment and Azure expertise, which was furthered by our acquisition of Inframon last year, will be the best solution to keep Sonoco’s systems high performing for years to come.”
For more information about Ensono’s hybrid cloud services, please visit https://www.ensono.com/hybrid-cloud.
About Ensono
For business leaders managing lots of complexity or disrupting the status quo, Ensono delivers complete Hybrid IT services and governance, from cloud to mainframe, tailored to each client’s journey. Whether you’re leveraging the power of the cloud or modernizing legacy technologies, you’ll be on track to operate for today and optimize for tomorrow. Named a Top 15 Sourcing Service Provider by ISG, some of the world’s most successful companies rely on us to help them be great at what they do. Ensono has over 1,000 associates across North America, Europe and India and is ranked 21st in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. Our US offices are headquartered in greater Chicago, our UK offices are headquartered in greater London and our DE offices are headquartered in greater Düsseldorf.
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Ensono provides hybrid IT solutions that address our clients’ current needs while anticipating and engineering solutions for the ever-changing demands of tomorrow.
We’re trusted by some of the world’s most successful companies because we deliver complete hybrid IT solutions and governance customised to each client’s IT journey. We offer infrastructure services that allow you to connect seamlessly:
•to our managed public cloud partners.
•within Ensono Cloud, our own flexible and secure managed infrastructure environment.
•within a mainframe or midrange environment, including the IBM iSeries.
Our business application services ensure that your critical applications, middleware, and database applications are available, high-performing, and secure 24/7.
We support your business outcomes with purpose-driven innovation. Ensono invests millions of pounds each year into innovation research and development, so our thought leaders and senior practitioners are uniquely capable of advising you on the art of the possible.
We deliver every step of the way with security, consulting, and client services that are second to none—including Ensono M.O., a service management platform that allows you to view and control all aspects of your IT estate in real time through a single pane of glass, regardless of location or platform.
Ensono has more than four decades of experience managing business complexity and 15 years of proven cloud innovation, a track record that distinguishes us from our competitors. We have managed hundreds of complex migrations and have designed solutions that address a wide range of challenges that companies are facing today.
Our culture is collaborative and results-driven, which helps our clients typically achieve immediate reductions in their total cost of ownership. We adapt to and work seamlessly within our clients’ culture and value the expertise of their employees. Our accountability when meeting our clients’ challenges keeps them with us for an average of 10 years.
What’s in a name?
The name Ensono is derived from the Zen concept enso, which references ‘strength and creativity’, as well as the Italian expression in sogno, meaning ‘in dreams’. These concepts reflect how our associates constantly look at opportunities from different angles, make unexpected connections, and arrive at unprecedented solutions. It’s how we help CIOs achieve business goals, or ‘dreams’—whether dealing with a changing workforce, moving applications to the cloud with confidence or meeting their strategic objectives.
In January 2016, Acxiom IT rebranded to Ensono, signifying our commitment to innovation in hybrid IT solutions.
In September 2016, Ensono acquired Attenda, expanding our ability to manage complex environments across the globe.
Our purpose
To be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our Clients to do great things.
Our values
Whether providing unprecedented solutions for clients or collaborating with each other to make unexpected connections, our team of experts exhibits these core values across every endeavour:
Honesty – We’re transparent and accountable.
Reliability – We deliver on our promises.
Collaboration – We thrive as a team.
Curiosity – We relentlessly innovate on behalf of our clients.
Passion – We love what we do and share our enthusiasm.
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