Reengineering a Legacy Car-Label System for Cost Visibility & Efficiency
A leading European luxury car manufacturer needed to modernize its Monroney Printing Platform, a legacy car-labeling system used across North America. Their existing monolithic application lacked cloud cost visibility, scalability, and efficient management of shared services across multiple environments.
With the transition to a cloud-based infrastructure, the client required real-time cost breakdowns for different environments and microservices. Additionally, there were no business metrics in place to analyze spending trends and optimize unit economics.
To address these challenges, the client sought a modernized cloud solution with full cost transparency, real-time insights, and optimized resource utilization.
Accelerating Cloud Cost Optimization with A.AVA-ICE
Ascendion reengineered the client’s legacy Monroney Printing Platform, migrating it to a cloud-based, real-time quick print solution built on microservices and DevOps capabilities. The transformation included:
- Cloud-Based Portal Modernization: Migrated the mainframe-based system to a unified cloud platform for scalability and real-time processing.
- Comprehensive Cost Visibility: Integrated A.AVA-ICE FinOps tools to track, analyze, and distribute cloud costs by product, environment, and shared services.
- Organizational Cost Mapping: Implemented an org chart rollup view to allocate cloud costs across different teams and stakeholders.
- Shared Resource Cost Optimization: Enabled real-time cost distribution of shared cloud resources based on actual usage data.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Established business metrics for trend analysis and unit economics, improving forecasting and financial control.
By leveraging cloud-native tools and intelligent cost tracking, Ascendion empowered the client with complete visibility into cloud costs and optimized infrastructure spending.
With enhanced cost visibility, automation, and optimization, Ascendion’s cloud solution transformed the client’s legacy infrastructure into a scalable, cost-efficient, and high-performance system.
Tech Stack: A.AVA-ICE, Kubernetes, PaaS Cloud Databases, API Management
The Results
By implementing Ascendion’s cloud-based cost optimization framework, the client achieved:
- 125%-150% reduction in manual data entry errors
- 100,000+ cars per year to be processed on the modernized platform from 2024
- 400-500% faster cost visibility for stakeholders
- 15-20% projected reduction in Cloud costs