Overview
Precisely, a global data integrity software company, was running a large on-premises estate across a worldwide footprint while navigating a complex multi-year migration to AWS. The company needed to balance ongoing operational costs against the financial commitments required to accelerate the cloud transition. AWS and one of its consulting partners introduced ReluTech to help Precisely lower the cost of running the existing estate and redirect those savings into the migration itself.
Challenges
- Rising OEM support costs on contracts expiring mid-migration
- A steep virtualization licensing renewal increase arriving mid-program
- Short-term capacity needs pressuring a large, costly hardware refresh
- Need for a flexible global support model aligned to phased migration timelines
- A need to align infrastructure spend with existing AWS commitments
The migration had to be funded from the infrastructure Precisely was leaving behind, not from new budget.
Solution
- Elastic Maintenance Across the Global Estate. ReluTech replaced expiring OEM support contracts with a single flexible global support model, scaled to Precisely's phased migration timelines so coverage retired alongside the hardware.
- Virtualization Support Without a Long-Term Renewal. Moving VMware support to ReluTech saved an estimated $1.3M annually against the renewal on the table, and kept Precisely free of a multi-year commitment on an estate it was retiring.
- Asset Buyback on the Migration Schedule. ReluTech built a buyback strategy that executed wave by wave as workloads moved to AWS, converting retired infrastructure into funding for other Precisely initiatives.
- Capital Preserved on Short-Term Capacity. Certified refurbished hardware from ReluTech's own in-house inventory covered short-term capacity gaps mid-migration, removing the need for a large hardware refresh and preserving capital for the cloud program.
- Full Visibility Through the Asset Management Portal. Real-time tracking of assets and contracts simplified the support transition across sites, and billing through the AWS Marketplace applied the spend against Precisely's existing AWS commitment.
Benefits
Support savings and licensing cost avoidance together closed the financial gap, giving Precisely leadership the confidence to commit to the full multi-year migration and the professional services to deliver it. Support stayed flexible through every phase, capital stayed in the cloud program, and retired assets kept funding the next wave.