At a comprehensive overview training session at the end of 2019, we convinced SPIEGEL-Gruppe with our competent and trusting communication. At that time, the group was evaluating the Data Center and Cloud options and was in discussion with various partners. Ultimately, we won the group’s trust with our comprehensive cloud expertise and a tailored migration plan.

We created a plan for the cloud migration that included a detailed analysis of the apps to be migrated. Jira, Jira Service Management and Confluence were to be moved to the cloud.

From the decision to migrate to the completion of the project, about a year elapsed. Before the actual migration started, we conducted several cloud admin training sessions so the SPIEGEL team could optimally prepare for the new cloud environment. Since standardized migration paths were not yet available for all products at the time, we developed a tailored solution that began with an extensive clean-up phase. Because: the cleaner the data, the faster and smoother the migration.

Since September 2022, SPIEGEL-Gruppe has been successfully using the cloud. “I’m now a fan of the cloud,” reports IT Project Manager Thorben Petersen, confirming that his team members share this positive experience. Of course it took some time to get used to the modern design and new features, but the benefits quickly became apparent. The unexpectedly low volume of IT requests from colleagues showed how intuitively the Atlassian Cloud was adopted.

The initial data protection concerns were confidently resolved through our partnership-based collaboration. Thanks to the cloud migration, SPIEGEL-Gruppe can now invest more IT resources in internal processes.