Speaker: George Watts, Global OI Practice Manager, AWS Professional Services “You suddenly get that ‘a-ha’ moment when you can stop worrying about infrastructure… it has been transformational for us.” Paul Hannan, Chief Technology Officer of SGN. Learn how SGN transformed their IT culture with AWS Managed Services including: - How SGN cut their infrastructure operations costs by 88% and used those savings to drive innovation projects - Why focusing IT on applications, not infrastructure, is the key to creating more value for your organization - Why a lift-and-shift migration strategy is the best way to fund future innovation - How to bridge the skill gap in your organization and empower your people - How ITIL and Dev Ops can work together in the enterprise

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Funding innovation through retirement of
technical debt:
A case study featuring Scotia Gas Networks
George Watts
Practice Manager, Operations Integration

2. Your presenter

3. Two key use cases for cloud adoption

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Scotia Gas Networks (SGN)

5. Meet SGN
• Energy pipeline operator
• 75,000KM network
• 14M customers
• 5,000 employees
• £1B+ annual revenue

6. Meet the SGN CIO
10 years with SGN
20+ years technology leadership
Tata, Capgemini, TUI
Andrew Quail
Chief Information Officer

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Rising expectations

8. “The energy industry is being disrupted…”

9. “And if our industry is being disrupted…”

10. “We needed more speed and agility”

11. “Our IT estate was holding us back”

12. New strategy

13. “We developed a new strategy”
Business strategy, NOT cloud strategy
New operational and governance models
Focused on internal and external customers

14. “Corporate strategy, not technical vanity”
Reduce risk
Drive opportunity
Improve security
Bolster resiliency
Increase innovation
Reduce total expense
Embrace new ways of working
Desired board outcomes

15. “Our strategy relied on all-in cloud migration”
Become informed buyers
Invest in strategic partnerships
Become “lighthouse” customer

16. “AMS was a no-brainer for us”

17. Cloud migration

18. “Think of it as a rebuild rather than a migration”

19. “Our migration was about more than migration”
SGN CCOE team
AWS/AMS team
Partners
First migrate, then refactor
Agile, iterative projects
Modernize ops policies
Scalable Landing Zone
Migration automation
ISV partner solutions

20. 100%
39%
12%
Annualcostsinpercentages
On-prem infrastructure operations Adjusted On-prem infrastructure operations AMS
AWS optimization
AMS optimization
“Operational savings improved our ROI”

21. “Migrate first, then reinvest the savings"
DevOps
Infrastructure, governance,
security, compliance
Design Ops
AppsInfra
Enterprise DevOps
“Well-Architected” apps
New operating model
Training and skills

22. Final thoughts

23. “We learned a lot along the way”

24. “Innovation requires the entire company”

25. “Don’t underestimate
peoples’ resistance
to change”

26. Work backwards from the outcome
Write a press release and FAQ
Let AWS help you
Call to action

27. Letter of the Law vs.
Spirit of the Law
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