Swap to the cloud

The next steps in IT: what’s in it for Finance

Seventies Eighties Nineties Oughties Sixties

Networks

networked

Tens

Mainframe computing with department

specialist

First PC’s. Slow entry into business world

Introduction of Windows

IT Competence

centers

Cloud computing

How did we get here?

Why did we get here?

Are we getting there?

Some mambo jumbo

Your privates

Specific Generic

On Site Iaas Saas

The million dollar question

What is out there?

Let’s order take out

Whodunnit?

"To create, implement and maintain a flexible,

scalable, standardized and supported IT services to

support Endemol Holding, Endemol International

and the small Opco’s around the globe."

The Plan

I love it when a plan comes….

Mama needs a new pair of shoes

Around the world… and back

• Project Scope:

• As-is migration, 7.5 to 10.0, from hosted SQL to Azure.

• Terminal server for access from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Azia

and Africa

• Executed by Swap Support / Finext and Endemol staff

• Start february, end of june go-live with the august close

Are they made for walking?

Changes during the project

• Due to a restructuring less availability of Endemol staff. User Acceptance

Testing still performed by Endemol

• Focus on YouTube and other digital activities

• Some new entities, specifications, and reports

• New Entities with new currencies

Points of attention

• Start with a house cleaning

• Watch required software versions, such as browsers and OS

• Excel 2013 compatible according to SAP, but the user experience is not

optimal yet…

• Performance was lagging on remote desktop environment, still under

investigation

• Use the migration to implement other performance enhancers, such as

sectioning reports

Q&A

Wietse Mol

Swap Support

wietse.mol@swapsupport.nl

Olaf Looije

Swap Support

olaf.looije@swapsupport.nl