Introduction
PLUS is the cooperative home for independent supermarket entrepreneurs in the Netherlands, united by a shared commitment to sustainable business practices. It is the supermarket brand under which PLUS Holding B.V. operates in the market. With around 270 stores across the country, PLUS is a household name for almost everyone.
About the project
Over the past few years, PLUS has taken on a huge digital transformation challenge. One of the crucial foundations for PLUS's digital strategy was getting more out of cloud native technology. A key ambition was to integrate the Public Cloud, thoroughly yet pragmatically, into the complex landscape of food retail value chains.
Digital Survival Company was asked to create a cloud strategy and roadmap for PLUS during the discovery phase. Through a collaborative workshop approach, this resulted in a multi-cloud strategy and a clear cloud roadmap. A financial business case for the cloud transformation was also developed. Based on our cloud foundation framework, a deliberate choice was then made — driven by the functional requirements — to house one part of the landscape in Azure and the other in AWS.
This multi-cloud approach resulted in two landing zones, after which we began migrating workloads using our proven infrastructure-as-code approach. Once the workload migrations were complete, we took over 24/7 management of all workloads in Azure and AWS. To this day, everything runs smoothly, with the rest of the cloud transformation planned for the coming periods.
- A pragmatic cloud strategy aligned with PLUS's business and IT.
- A financial business case for the cloud transformation.
- A cloud roadmap based on the 6R model.
- Two designed and implemented cloud landing zones: Azure and AWS.
- Migration of workload batches to the respective landing zones.
- Managed Services (DevOps) from our multidisciplinary Cloud Platform team.