Customer overview
Blackline is a global SaaS company with over 1,000 employees that provides software solutions for most of the Fortune 100 companies. They have over $450 million in revenue and are a leader in the financial services industry.
Background
Blackline needed a fast, agile, and scalable cloud solution to meet the growing demand for its software products. Its old data center infrastructure could not keep up with the growth. It also wanted to keep its existing software stack compatible with the cloud.
Challenge
Blackline partnered with CDW’s Google Cloud team to use its hybrid and multicloud capabilities. They wanted to deploy their software across different clouds and regions. But their old deployment models were not cloud-ready and needed major changes to the code and configuration. They needed a partner to help them move and update their software stack to Google Cloud without affecting their business and customers.
Solution & impact
CDW helped Blackline to migrate and modernize their software stack to Google Cloud. They used an automated deployment tool that allowed them to provision and configure their resources on Google Cloud in a fast and reliable way. As a result, they reduced their provisioning time for new capacity from months to hours, saving time and money. They also committed to a multi-year contract with Google Cloud, worth $10M+, to take advantage of the scalability, security, and innovation that Google Cloud offers.
Provisioning time cut from months to hours
