The Adani Group, Monday, announced a multi-year, cloud-first strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to modernize the company’s IT operations for future scale and drive group-wide innovation.
“The inevitability and pace of cloud adoption mandates that every business redefine its business model. This provides new challenges and new opportunities that will not only be transformational but will also require new forms of industry collaboration. said Mr Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group. “We are pleased to work with Google Cloud across its multidimensional offerings to help us build a technology-driven organization which potentially opens up new business areas for us.”
The process of migrating the company’s extensive IT footprint from its existing on-premises data centre and colocation facilities to google cloud has already begun under the first phase of the partnership.
The company will transfer more than 250 business-critical applications such as SAP HANA core and peripheral systems to Google Cloud’s high-speed infrastructure to centralize workflows, streamline operations and enable business users to tap powerful new data capabilities for fast and accurate decision making.
“The Adani Group is paving the way towards a cloud-first future, and we’re thrilled to partner with the company on landmark projects that will support its innovation and future growth. Adani’s SAP migration is one of the fastest we’ve seen at scale and is already delivering significant value across its business. Our continued collaboration will spearhead new digital platforms that will have a transformative impact,” said Mr Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud.
Notably, the Adani Group is the largest and fastest-growing portfolio of diversified businesses in India with interests in Logistics (seaports, airports, logistics, shipping and rail), Resources, Power Generation and Distribution, Renewable Energy, Gas and Infrastructure, Agro (commodities, edible oil, food products, cold storage and grain silos), Real Estate, Public Transport Infrastructure, Consumer Finance and Defence, and other sectors.
