Success Story

Increasing Efficiency with the Cloud for Tainui Group Holdings

Dynamo6 worked with Tainui Group Holdings (TGH) on a multi-year technology transformation, migrating them to Microsoft 365 and AWS. This has reduced operational costs and enabled its people to be more connected, secure, and agile.

Services

  • Cloud Services
  • Digital Consultancy

Deliverables

  • Strategy & Technology Roadmap
  • Assessments & Reviews
  • Microsoft 365 Modern Work
  • AWS Platform Engineering
  • Cloud Platform Adoption

As the commercial arm of Waikato-Tainui, Tainui Group Holdings (TGH) manages an extensive and diverse investment portfolio. However, their technology was not keeping pace. Operating with separate IT systems across four offices and three server domains, IT management was time-consuming and inefficient. Staff struggled to find information quickly, and document duplication was common.

Recognising the need for change, TGH sought a modern technology partner who could provide a strategic path forward, moving beyond traditional on-premise solutions to embrace the flexibility and security of the public cloud.

Our approach

  • 01

    A Strategic Foundation: The ICT Infrastructure Review

    Our partnership began with a comprehensive ICT Infrastructure Review. We performed a detailed review of TGH's systems, conducted stakeholder interviews to understand their challenges, and delivered a 'future state' architecture design. This initial strategic work provided a clear and robust roadmap for their entire cloud transformation, ensuring every engineering decision was fit for purpose.

  • 02

    Delivering a Resilient and Secure AWS Platform

    With the roadmap established, our engineers executed a full migration of TGH's core infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). On-premise servers were decommissioned, and their workloads were moved to EC2 instances strategically spread across multiple availability zones to ensure high availability and resilience. We also enhanced their business continuity planning by configuring AWS Workspaces as a cost-effective "standby" remote access solution, and designed a secure, externalised logging solution.

  • 03

    Enabling a Modern Workplace with Microsoft 365

    To tackle the productivity challenges, our team engineered the migration to Microsoft 365. This involved moving the entire organisation to Exchange Online and establishing a modern workplace foundation using SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. We designed and implemented a new governance structure and architecture for their document management, providing a centralised, secure, and easily accessible platform for all company files and data. This directly addressed the long-standing issues of document duplication and inefficiency, enabling staff to collaborate more effectively.

The results

The multi-year cloud transformation has provided TGH with a secure, flexible, and cost-effective technology platform that supports their strategic goals.

  • Significantly Reduced IT Costs & Increased Flexibility: Moving to a cloud-based, consumption model has removed significant capital expenditure and provided greater clarity and control over IT usage and costs.

  • Enterprise-Grade Security and Business Continuity: Running on global cloud platforms provides robust security by design, while the AWS Workspaces solution delivers a cost-effective and rapidly deployable disaster recovery capability.

  • Seamless Collaboration and Centralised Information: The successful deployment of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Teams has eliminated information silos and enabled staff to collaborate effectively, whether in the office or remotely.

  • A Trusted Engineering and Strategy Partner: From the initial audit to ongoing optimisation, Dynamo6 has become a trusted partner, providing the strategic thinking and technical expertise to help TGH innovate and thrive.

  • The Dynamo6 engineers are great. They think quickly and ask the right questions. When I go to them with an idea, they challenge my thinking so each step we implement is fit for purpose. At Dynamo6 they’ve been transparent – about costs and everything else. I trust them.

    Running our entire infrastructure on global cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365 ensures we have global standards in IT security built-in by design. Getting Dynamo6 onboard has been a huge cost saving upfront, with better returns for the future.

    Helaman Tangiora

    Head of Digital Transformation

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