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Making transition to new and secure cloud-based infrastructure

Hall Hunter, a leading UK grower of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, is a family business in Berkshire and Surrey that has worked with some of the biggest game-players in the field including Waitrose, M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and the Coop, and marketed through Farm Fresh P.O. Ltd.

Despite operating on 200 acres of land, Hall Hunter was still relying on manual counting and forecasting, which was proving unreliable. Their goal was to move their legacy system to the Cloud to improve system agility and deliver a more sustainable system structure. We harnessed innovative AI-based solutions to speed up field counting, manage soil and temperature controls, and offer accurate yield predictions.

Challenge

  • The client’s legacy on-premises infrastructure created several challenges
  • The client did not have a dedicated team to manage and update the infrastructure
  • Many components were outdated, with poor or lacking documentation
  • The client previously worked with multiple suppliers, resulting in high costs, security issues, network instability, numerous unstructured data lakes outside the organisation
The Deployflow team faced challenges due to a lack of documentation and a reliable information source to guide them. This required a deep dive into all items and components, consuming significant time to fully understand the client’s needs and build a tailored solution. The team also had to analyse frequent user issues to develop a strategy for preventing future problems and improving customer experience.

Working with Deployflow has been transformative for Little Journey. Deployflow's team addressed our critical needs for scalability, efficiency, and security by simplifying our cloud infrastructure management.

Their strategic approach has greatly enhanced our platform’s security, consistency, and overall efficiency, allowing us to better serve our users with a robust and user-friendly solution.

Azim Palmer
CTO at Little Journey
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Managing IT infrastructure and meeting vendor security requirements in a rapidly growing tech startup is not an easy job.

I enjoy working with the Deployflow team and appreciate their adaptiveness and responsiveness - they offer strategic advice and do a good job at balancing the need to put security first whilst also developing and maintaining our services in a way that meets our users’ needs.

Ian Knott
Regulatory and Governance Lead, Little Journey
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    Deployflow has truly excelled in providing HHP with Hybrid support. Their team has effectively supported our 150+ staff, addressing daily technical requests promptly and professionally.

    Their commitment to ensuring our operations run smoothly is commendable. We highly recommend Deployflow for their exceptional managed support services.

    Toni S
    HHP

    Solution

    The Deployflow engineering team helped Hall Hunter successfully migrate to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, an ERP solution trusted by 96% of Fortune 500 companies, allowing them to:
    • Maximise savings with an exceptionally low total cost of ownership
    • Elevate efficiency through advanced AI and automated workflows
    • Eliminate manual data entry and cumbersome app-switching for good
    • Drive revenue growth with accurate cash flow forecasts
    • Enjoy the flexibility to manage your business from anywhere, anytime
    Leveraging our domain expertise, we:
    • Extended hardware lifecycles, enabling flexible upgrades of equipment
    • Provided IT support function to enable stable, managed services for more than two years 
    • Productised a new SaaS offering, potentially helping to roll out software to farms across the globe

    Impact

    Hall Hunter’s updated "must-have list" for their environment included well-organised documentation, enhanced security, cost reduction, greater flexibility, and staying current with the latest technology. By adhering to a detailed migration plan, the Deployflow team successfully completed the migration on time and within budget, enabling Hall Hunter to save approximately 30% on IT costs and reduce support tickets. The client is now experiencing the benefits of their new cloud-based system, including cost savings, clear documentation, easily accessible and organised data, improved security, and increased flexibility. 

    • Completed the migration on time and within budget
    • The migration helped Hall Hunter save approximately 30% on IT costs and reduce support tickets
    • Provided well-organised documentation
    • Enhanced security
    • Greater flexibility
    The numbers supporting the impact we have made together with the client
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    30%

    reduction in IT costs achieved by moving to a cloud-based infrastructure

    150+

    employees now supported with stable services, enhancing daily operations

    2+ years

    of ongoing support, ensuring system stability and continuity
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