Equinox IT won the 'Azure Innovate Award' at the Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards in 2020 for the work performed during this engagement - read more
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Equinox IT won the 'Azure Innovate Award' at the Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards in 2020 for the work performed during this engagement - read more
Download this case study as a PDF document.
Founded by Jules Fulton and Bob Hogan in 1933, Fulton Hogan has grown to become an engineering powerhouse with 8,000 plus people across New Zealand, Australia and South Pacific. The family owned business delivers infrastructure projects, products and services across roading, rail, ports, airports, water, energy, construction and more.
Fulton Hogan process vast volumes of data across numerous engineering and physical infrastructure projects. They were developing a new Enterprise Data Warehouse in Azure to provide essential information for critical and urgent infrastructure service projects across two large cities. Any delays were directly impacting on city businesses and residents; fast delivery was required.
The Fulton Hogan team, while experienced in data warehousing, were relatively new to cloud, DevOps and automation. Manual provisioning and deployment was proving too slow for these projects. They had started to use Azure DevOps but were not fully realising its potential.
Fulton Hogan's Enterprise Data Warehouse team needed new ways of working and automated approaches for their build, deploy and test activities to enable rapid delivery of value to projects.
The Fulton Hogan team had deep Enterprise Data Warehouse expertise and looked to Microsoft Gold Partner Equinox IT to provide specialist skills for optimising their cloud strategy and product delivery approaches.
With Equinox IT's help, Fulton Hogan:
"Azure DevOps is a complex system. We realised the Equinox IT approach worked when we decided to stand up a new environment. We made the few code changes, 'pushed the button', and a whole new environment was deployed. Just like that. Then we tore the environment down and stood it up again, just for fun!"
~ Mark Ogilvie, EDW Architect, Fulton Hogan
Fulton Hogan realised substantial improvements from the changes made, positioning them for continued infrastructure industry leadership. Outcomes included:
The team has become fully self-sufficient, independently managing build, deployment and cloud activities.
Microsoft Gold Partner Equinox IT helped Fulton Hogan deliver these outcomes using its Kickstart Cloud and Cloud Foundations services. Equinox IT won the 'Azure Innovate Award' at the Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards in 2020 for the work performed during this engagement.
"Equinox IT's breadth and depth of skills was great to have on our project team. And the individuals were a pleasure to work with. Releases and deployments are now trivial, I can't imagine going back to the old way of working. Overall, I would recommend Equinox IT to anybody."
Mark Ogilvie EDW Architect Fulton Hogan
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