The customer, Canada’s destination for evidence-based cancer control information, facilitates collaboration across the cancer community and accelerates work that improves the effectiveness and efficiency of cancer control in Canada. As a non-profit organization who receives government funding, the customer is always searching for opportunities to manage their costs without losing functionality.  

Buchanan was already providing the customer with an IT solution consisting of 24/7 service desk for level 1 support, level 2 onsite resources, and ongoing management and monitoring of their infrastructure including network, Windows and Linux servers, backup and disaster recovery planning, implementation and testing, and project consulting services. 

Because the customer had a long-standing partnership with Buchanan Technologies for other IT services, it made sense to turn to Buchanan for support when looking to adopt a cloud solution to help increase business efficiencies and reduce IT-related spend.  

Buchanan now supports their Azure environment, including Microsoft 365 licenses, and has provided project consulting services to help them in adopting technologies such as Azure Virtual Machines, Archival, Azure SQL, Identity Management & Security, Project Online, Power Apps, Power Automate, Flow, and Power BI.  

Through careful and strategic evaluation of consumption volumes, Buchanan was able to remove unnecessary services while scaling other areas to better align with the client’s business goals. The cloud team was also able to identify duplicate licenses, remove those licenses, and consolidate where applicable to gain more value from their spend.

Buchanan’s efforts led to a 45% cost reduction with no loss in functionality.   

Buchanan continuously works with the customer to offer recommendations that optimize spend while improving services that provide an enhanced user experience. We review costs and improvements monthly with our customers and quarterly have a strategic review to ensure that our customers can plan and optimize their cloud spend while leveraging the evolving cloud technologies.