{"id":496969,"date":"2022-07-13T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/success-story\/dbs-the-danish-railways\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:03:25","slug":"dbs-the-danish-railways","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/me\/success-story\/dbs-the-danish-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"The largest danish transportation provider boosts its agility thanks to Microsoft Cloud technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/dsb-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13520\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"align wp-block-acf-snapshot\">\n\n\t\n\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The snapshot<\/h3><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8d39b2df wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"snapshot\"><div class=\"number\"><span>1<\/span><\/div><p>Modernizing DSB\u2019s IT environment to quickly identify the client\u2019s system risks and technical debt, and the related solutionsrn<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"snapshot\"><div class=\"number\"><span>2<\/span><\/div><p>Creating a Cloud Center of excellence to Improve customer experiencesrn<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"snapshot\"><div class=\"number\"><span>3<\/span><\/div><p>Providing risk assessment and economic evaluation to ensure DBS\u2019 Apps and servers are ready to migrate through Microsoft Azure<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-challenge\"><strong>The challenge<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DSB, the danish railways company, was challenged by IT operations changes with long term transitions and migration projects. As a result, DSB wanted to reduce operations risks and minimize further vendor lock-in by moving and consolidating the IT estate to cloud-based infrastructure and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a business perspective, DSB wanted to strengthen the ability to build agile customer-centric front apps, utilizing existing backend data, using native Azure platform capabilities, and enabling cloud access in a secure and controlled manner to a wider group of business IT developer teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-solution\"><strong>The solution<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a mission of such magnitude and complexity, Devoteam advised DSB on four separate and levelled solutions to cover their needs in full. Together with the capable resources at DSB, our dedicated team outlined an approach consisting of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Migration and modernization: processing a broad spectrum of planning and operations testing activities related to closing or migrating systems to the cloud under the Gartner 5R Model.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud Center of Excellence: based on the business case and best practice, defining cloud landing zone policies, network and security controls<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Application Migration: leaving DSB with a more streamlined application and server platform ready to be operated thanks to Microsoft Azure technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud platform support and operations: implementing solutions that are&nbsp;supported and operated 24\/7&nbsp;from Devoteam\u2019s EU based CoE operations center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-better-change\"><strong>The better change<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Migration of workloads to Azure cloud with minimal down-time&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduction of operating vendor lock-in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Easier, more secure and less costly handovers when changing operations partner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gain of self-service access to cloud services and platforms combined with a governance model&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Streamlining the entire IT environment through best practice recommendations and Gartner 5R methodology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge DSB, the danish railways company, was challenged by IT operations changes with long term transitions and migration projects. 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