Knight Frank Cloud Transition Enables Breakthrough Property Services

Objective

The Knight Frank team in Australia sought to reduce its on-premises data centre footprint and create operational efficiencies by moving to the cloud. Aside from increasing resiliency and capacity, it was intended for the new process to pave the way for a smarter use of data and provide the foundation for Knight Frank to offer exciting new services for customers.

Approach

Initially, Knight Frank considered a number of major cloud providers. As they narrowed down the options, Microsoft Azure emerged as the platform that would best suit their needs. Knight Frank had an existing relationship with Data^#3, built over the course of many successful projects. Knowing that Data^#3 is Microsoft’s largest Australian business partner, and an Azure Expert MSP, meant Knight Frank was confident in their abilities to deliver the solution.

IT Outcome

• Azure workload migration from data centre to cloud
• Enabled Azure BI and Analytics
• Skill share with the Knight Frank team
• Improved performance, visibility, and agility

Business Outcome

• Able to introduce new services for customers
• Better insights from data
• Support needs managed locally

“We accelerated in our team, and cloud was a critical part of that. We became a more agile organisation that could pivot as quickly as our clients needed us to.”
Darren Warner, Head of IT, Knight Frank Australia

Read full article Customer Story: Knight Frank Australia – Data#3 (data3.com)