Teejay modernized its infrastructure, cutting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and shifting to an Opex financial model for optimized cash flow. Disaster Recovery (DR) costs are now negligible, allowing seamless failover and AI integration.

However, with its legacy on-premises architecture reaching end of life, the business decided to modernize its application environment, including a move to SAP HANA.

To realize the new system's full potential, Teejay needed to overcome infrastructure limitations, including the extensive cost and resources needed to add new storage, server, and networking capacity to support growth. "These challenges were too much for a manufacturing business that does not specialize in IT," says Suraj Perera, CIO Teejay Group. "We need to focus our team on delivering fabric solutions rather than spending time fixing infrastructure."

To solve the problem, Teejay considered an updated on-premises infrastructure but identified a cloud solution as the best fit for its needs. The business conducted a comprehensive market evaluation based on providers' SAP relationship, cost flexibility, security, resilience, access to proven AI and data technologies, and support for microservices architectures. Ultimately, it identified Google Cloud as the superior option. "Google Cloud met all our requirements cost-effectively and had a close relationship with SAP," says Suraj Perera, CIO Teejay Group.

The firewall configuration combined with Google AI for Security also provides powerful protection against what Suraj Perera, CIO Teejay Group, describes as a "fast evolving threat landscape." "With Google Cloud, we can trust that this is taken care of, rather than having to invest in security tools and ensure upgrades are completed," he explains.

Meanwhile, transitioning from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud enables Teejay to execute plans to expand into Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond, without locating data center equipment and IT personnel in each market. This enables the business to control IT headcount and infrastructure expenditure in its expansion phase, while managing its cloud environment from a central console to minimize demands on IT team members.

Not only is Teejay managing potential growth cost-effectively, but infrastructure optimization and the use of shared Virtual Private Cloud have reduced the organization's infrastructure costs by 30%. That's because, in simple terms, the business has moved away from buying its own computer equipment upfront, based on peak workload expectations, and now rents it as a pay-as-you-go service instead.

Considerable productivity benefits complement these financial outcomes, with the organization's IT team able to focus on projects that deliver business value rather than infrastructure maintenance. The function is already examining how to use AI and data to better leverage its human expertise in areas such as colour mixing and fabric texture, and reduce waste across various processes.

"With SAP on Google Cloud, we are well positioned to execute our plans to grow into new markets," concludes Suraj Perera, CIO Teejay Group. "The biggest benefit is the comfort we have knowing that a business of the caliber of Google Cloud is looking after back-end infrastructure, such as storage and networking, while we focus on becoming the preferred fabric provider for brands worldwide."

Source : Google Cloud

Teejay is a fabric manufacturer specializing in weft-knitted fabric. Headquartered in Sri Lanka, the company provides customized fabric solutions, from yarn and fiber R&D to dyeing and printing services, to apparel brands worldwide.

Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Sri Lanka
Products: Google Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud