FEATURE: LOGISTICS
ECU Worldwide transformation: Background
Founded in 1987, ECU Worldwide is Allcargo Group’ s whollyowned global subsidiary with more than 300 + offices, across 180 countries, with over 2400 direct trade lanes.
As its operations expanded across 180 countries, ECU Worldwide identified opportunities to enhance its legacy infrastructure. The company’ s existing systems, while robust, required additional capacity during peak shipping seasons to maintain optimal service standards and operational efficiency while managing maintenance costs.
To further support its global expansion, ECU Worldwide planned to enhance system integration across regions, strengthen geographic redundancy and unify the management of regulatory compliance. By streamlining processes and improving connectivity between regional offices, the company aimed to drive greater efficiency and operational consistency.
The migration To AWS was executed in two phases, transitioning ECU Worldwide’ s three on-premises data centers( in the US, Europe, and Asia) to AWS. The company’ s workloads were moved to Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute( EC2) on Shared Tenancy, with EC2 on Dedicated Host for BYOL( Bring Your Own License) optimization of Windows and SQL workloads.
The company implemented a combination of AWS solutions for storage requirements, including Amazon Elastic Block Store( Amazon EBS) for Block Storage and FSx ONTAP and Amazon Elastic File System( Amazon EFS) for File Storage. In total, around 530 servers were successfully migrated.
The team implemented comprehensive security and compliance measures across the architecture, with carefully orchestrated transitions minimizing business disruption.
ECU Worldwide prioritized digital transformation to deliver nextgeneration logistics services to its global customer base. Key initiatives included real-time shipment tracking capabilities and seamless self-service options.
As an industry leader, ECU Worldwide sought to leverage emerging technologies such as predictive analytics, IoT-enabled container tracking, automated documentation processing and blockchain-secured transactions to enhance its service portfolio while strengthening its position at the forefront of logistics innovation.
For workforce development, ECU Worldwide implemented extensive training programs and change management initiatives to ensure effective adoption of new technologies.
Leveraged strategic relationships with AWS and Rackspace Technology brought crucial expertise to guide implementation and ensure industry best practices.
Allcargo Group’ s ECU Worldwide streamlinedits business operations across 180 countries through a comprehensive cloud migration of 530 servers.
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