How Clearscale Uses Platformr to Accelerate Migrations and Deliver More For Customers
When budget and scope are misaligned
Clearscale is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner specializing in cloud-native systems integration, strategic consulting, application development, and managed services. They serve clients ranging from startup to enterprise.
One of Clearscale’s SMB customers was ready to leave their current hosting provider. The motivation was clear: reduce costs, improve security, and modernize operations. They’d already decided AWS was the destination. They wanted Clearscale to get them there and to manage their environment once the migration was complete.
Then the SOW came back over budget. The project stalled.
The classic squeeze: enterprise requirements, startup budget, aggressive timeline
Clearscale was caught between what the customer needed and what they could approve. The customer had real compliance and security requirements. They had a timeline that couldn’t absorb weeks of manual configuration work. And they had a budget that couldn’t absorb the cost of doing it by hand.
Walking away wasn’t an option — not just because of the migration engagement, but because of the managed services relationship waiting on the other side of it. Clearscale needed a way to deliver a secure, compliant AWS foundation faster and at a cost the customer could actually approve.
Platformr turned a stalled deal into a competitive advantage
Rather than attempting to manually configure a secure AWS environment at a price the customer couldn’t afford — or erode margins on their end — Clearscale leveraged Platformr to automate the entire provisioning process.
The result was a fully deployed, secure AWS cloud foundation built to the customer’s security, compliance, and governance requirements and delivered at a fraction of the original cost and timeline. And because the environment was right from day one, the customer was positioned for exactly the kind of smooth managed services transition Clearscale had proposed.
“With Platformr, our customers can move to AWS faster, modernize more efficiently, and transition seamlessly to managed services that support their ongoing cloud journey.”
Jeff Carson, CTO – ClearscaleA faster path to the managed services relationship
SOW costs reduced by 40%
Clearscale could bring the engagement back within budget without cutting corners on the underlying architecture.
Migration timeline cut from weeks to hours
What would have consumed significant DevOps time was automated, getting the customer into AWS and onto managed services faster.
Managed services readiness from day one
The environment was built correctly and compliantly from the start, making the transition to ongoing managed services seamless.
Practice-wide impact
Improved efficiency and margin across Clearscale’s AWS practice.
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