Case study · Recycling & industrial
A recycling business relaunching after the bankruptcy of a predecessor company rebuilt on a cloud-managed IT and ERP foundation instead of another server room — a roughly $80,000 go-live that removed over $300,000 in annual IT cost.
The predecessor company ran a fully on-premises environment: aging servers, legacy applications and physical network gear maintained by four full-time IT staff at roughly $75,000 each plus benefits, insurance and workers' compensation. Infrastructure was not the cause of the bankruptcy, but the fixed overhead and the inability to adapt quickly removed financial flexibility exactly when the business needed it most.
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A single Business Central environment was configured with company dimensions so each operational site runs independently while processes stay standardized and reporting stays consolidated. Adding a location became a configuration exercise rather than a new implementation.
The full go-live — cloud identity, remote monitoring, cloud-managed networking, endpoint and email security, plus the Business Central implementation — landed at roughly $80,000 as a one-time project investment.
Against over $300,000 per year in eliminated IT salaries, benefits, insurance and infrastructure maintenance, the project paid for itself in under four months and every month after that is structural savings rather than a recovered cost.
Modernization here was not a technical upgrade, it was a cost-structure decision. The customer is not named because they have not approved being referenced; the cost and savings figures are theirs, from their own review of project spend, eliminated headcount and infrastructure spend.
Common questions
In this project the complete go-live — cloud identity, remote monitoring and management, cloud-managed networking, endpoint and email security, and a multi-entity Business Central implementation — came to roughly $80,000 one time. Scope, user count, number of sites and how much data cleanup is required move that number in either direction.
Here it was under four months: a roughly $80,000 one-time go-live against over $300,000 in annual IT salary, benefit, insurance and infrastructure cost that no longer had to be carried. Payback is fastest when internal IT headcount or aging on-premises hardware is being replaced outright.
It depends on the architecture. When identity, endpoints, networking and ERP are all cloud-managed and monitored remotely, the day-to-day work no longer requires someone on site. Environments still holding legacy on-premises applications usually need a hybrid model instead.
No, but a clean slate is faster. With an existing environment we inventory dependencies first and migrate in waves, which takes longer but avoids breaking line-of-business applications.
We review your network, security posture, cloud tenant and recovery plan, then hand you a plain-language report of what we found and what it means for the business.
