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Global industrial technology manufacturer

Cutting down a legacy platform sprawl

Platform and cost · Alteryx, SQL Server, Access

$1.1M+Saved through rationalisation
$267KAnnually, from legacy modernisation alone
1,500Manual hours a month removed
Attribution came before removal. Consumption stops being abstract the moment it carries an owner's name, and what nothing depends on was checked rather than assumed.

The situation

A collection of tools that had accumulated rather than been designed. Overlapping tools, business critical logic living in Access and Alteryx, and a cost line nobody could attribute to an owner.

What I did

  • Attributed cost to owners first, which is almost always the highest return move, because consumption stops being abstract.
  • Retired what nothing depended on, after checking what nothing depended on rather than assuming.
  • Modernised the legacy layer that quietly ran the business, and automated the manual workflows around it.

What it produced

$267KAnnually, from legacy modernisation alone
1,500Manual hours a month removed

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