Fletcher Building Partners TCS, Google Cloud To Drive Growth
Mumbai, March 21: Tata Consultancy Services on Monday said it has, along with Google Cloud, partnered with Fletcher Building to build a flexible, Google cloud-based enterprise platform to support long-term growth and innovation.
Fletcher Building is partnering with Google Cloud and TCS to implement enterprise-grade, cloud capability to run its mission-critical enterprise workloads to enable greater uptime and flexibility, develop its customer data strategy to create an end-to-end understanding of customer needs and behaviours, and to respond quickly to market changes and opportunities, the company said in a statement issued here.
Under this partnership, TCS will use its multi-horizon cloud transformation framework and extensive cloud experience to help Fletcher Building build a new future-ready digital core using Google Cloud. “This foundation will simplify the infrastructure landscape, reduce technology debt, host mission-critical workloads, provide a unified view of its customers and enable future innovation,” the company said. With operations in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific, Fletcher Building has more than 25 different businesses across manufacturing, distribution, retail, home building, and major infrastructure projects.
“We see digital as a key driver of transformation, growth and innovation at Fletcher Building. As we continue to ramp up our ecommerce, digitisation, automation and data analytics functions, we need a stable and secure technology platform that can cater to our needs today—and support us into the future,” said Daniel Beecham, Chief Information Officer, Fletcher Building. He further said that Google Cloud’s powerful data and analytics capabilities and its co-innovation agenda with SAP, combined with TCS’ domain industry knowledge and cloud engineering expertise, made it the logical choice to underpin Digital@Fletchers.
Commenting on the development, Alister Dias, Vice President Google Cloud, Australia and New Zealand said, “Building for the future starts with having the right digital foundations. By partnering with Google Cloud and TCS, Fletcher Building is now able to modernise its mission critical systems for greater scalability and availability, build its data capabilities and deepen connections with customers – all on the industry’s cleanest cloud.”
Ganesa Subramanian Vaikuntam, Business Unit Head, Retail, Travel, Transportation and Hospitality, TCS ANZ said the deep industry knowledge, technology expertise and extensive portfolio of accelerators will enable Fletcher Building to harness the full power of cloud to reimagine all aspects of their business.
