Confront what’s holding you back: unleash business agility by finding a low-risk path to modernisation

With the pace of innovation at an all-time high, there’s never been so much pressure on companies to keep up.

While sticking with what you know was once the less risky choice, today the opposite is usually true. Enterprises are discovering that it’s innovate or fall behind. Yet so many companies are finding their agility stifled by manual, siloed infrastructure management that’s impossible to scale or streamline.

The painful truth is that today, any investments in your IT infrastructure need to show rapid returns. Companies are being pushed to find new savings and new revenue streams, so the pressure is on to unlock greater simplicity and performance from IT in one fell swoop.

Taking stock

You cannot click your fingers and start innovating. You need DevOps tools that enable governance, predictability, and safety while still powering fast delivery before you can embrace AI at scale.  This is easier said than done, however, as legacy tool sprawl and processes layered over many years pose a significant obstacle to modernisation. Moreover, in the rush to move to cloud(s), companies can end up with complicated, fragmented hybrid environments.

That explains why new entrants to the marketplace such as cloud-native challenger banks can move so much faster than the established behemoths, achieving in a month what their larger, slower competitors struggle to do in years. Without the constraints of complex technology environments holding them back, these born-in-cloud challengers are rewriting the rules in multiple industries. Don’t you want to join them?

Seizing control

Work with SCC to simplify the complex and take back the reins of your IT infrastructure. We’ll help you combine solutions from HashiCorp, an IBM Company, Ansible, and IBM Cloudability with our expertise to overhaul infrastructure and software lifecycle management at your enterprise, delivering transformative gains from day zero of every new application until its retired.

We will spearhead a modern deployment approach, where infrastructure, secrets management, and application configuration are automated end to end. Specifically, we’ll use Terraform to move you from manual, environment‑specific infrastructure management to repeatable, scalable, and auditable Infrastructure as Code (IaC). With HashiCorp Vault, we will enable secure provision of identity, secrets, and certificates, while configuring and hardening the web service with Ansible.

Emerge with a faster, safer, and more repeatable way to deploy applications that is easier to audit and to scale with a team. Take advantage of our industry-specific knowledge to ensure that you tick all the boxes around compliance, prioritising where you need to, and eliminating only what’s redundant.

What’s stopping you ?

If you feel the cost of change is daunting, you’re not alone. But as discussed earlier, investing in agility is becoming less a nice-to-have and more a price-of-admission in many industries. And by addressing the risk inherent in the legacy parts of your infrastructure sooner rather than later, you can avoid reaching the point of no return and start enjoying the benefits of modernised systems earlier.

Another common concern is how change will be received by your organisation. But focus on the positives: automating simple, repeatable tasks can actually free up time for your colleagues to focus on higher‑value work.

And some of the biggest legacy infrastructure vendors may even force your hand. We’re already seeing technology giants adopt extremely aggressive commercial models, deprioritising all but their largest customers. Freeing yourself from relying on vendors like these can help you cut down on uncertainty and avoid nasty price hikes.

Taking the plunge

Our experience with modernisation projects tells us that we can achieve a substantial long-term payoff for you. For instance, we helped a UK public sector broadcaster unlock savings of c.£100,000 in six months, through negotiated cost reductions, CPI and RPI mitigation, term optimisation and the avoidance of unnecessary renewal uplifts. For a UK public sector department, we saved c.£300,000 in a year by optimising user licensing, consolidating overlapping licences, and actively managing Azure consumption. We helped a large data and reporting PLC modernise its environment and achieved a 27% cost reduction through a new commercial arrangement.

Work with us to streamline your infrastructure and software while boosting your capabilities and cost-efficiency. You’ll gain the ability to deploy at scale, allowing you to capitalise on new opportunities and move faster than the competition.

Best of all, you’ll have peace of mind. You won’t have to worry about systems breaking or expensive renewals coming your way. Team up with SCC to turn technology from a cost centre into a real enabler, so your business can truly soar.