Webinar: Randstad's Move to the Cloud
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Randstad operates in 38 countries, with over 38,000 employees in more than 4,800 offices. Before partnering with TCS, Randstad operated in a ‘local to local’ IT infrastructure model. With the broader HR industry undergoing a significant digital transformation, this legacy structure left the business exposed to potential inefficiencies and security risks. To stay relevant in the fast-changing world of work, Randstad is implementing its ‘Tech and Touch’strategy, which combines the use of smart technologies such as AI and machine learning with a human approach, to source the right talent for the right roles.
As part of this strategy, Randstad engaged with TCS to completely transform its IT infrastructure. This entailed migrating over 925 IT applications from over 50 legacy datacentres across the world to a public cloud – one of the world’s largest such migrations – and putting in place a robust governance structure. Randstad now has a future-proof, cloud-based digital core that fully integrates the company’s global IT operations, leverages centralized global management and monitoring mechanisms, standardizes and automates processes, and features an enhanced security framework including intrusion detection and prevention systems.
With this new core, Randstad can embrace new growth opportunities, unlock and allocate existing resources in more efficient ways, and enhance the overall experience of customers and candidates who interact with Randstad’s digital platforms.
It was interesting to see that Randstad purposely decided for an as-is transition to TCS and to the cloud, and later decided for application consolidation and rationalization. Still, the business case allowed for a global roll-out despite the local and fragmented IT Governance that existed within Randstad. Further benefits can now be achieved by ongoing rationalization of the application portfolio, but these were not taken into account at the time of the decision for TCS.