Agri-food – Design of a Hybrid, Business-Oriented Cloud Architecture

A major seed and agri-food group owned by French farmers sought to modernise its IT architecture to support its digital-transformation strategy. Its existing systems lacked agility and hindered innovation, calling for a cloud-ready, hybrid architecture balancing performance, security and regulatory compliance.

Client context

The client needed a custom cloud architecture aligning technological choices with strategic objectives, reducing time-to-market through DevOps, integrating hybrid cloud solutions for scalability and flexibility, and guaranteeing a high level of security and governance.

Business challenges

• Align technological choices with the group's strategic objectives
• Reduce time-to-market through a DevOps approach
• Integrate hybrid cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) for scalability and flexibility
• Guarantee security, compliance and governance

The T&S solution

T&S deployed a phased, value-driven approach: business immersion to capture strategic challenges, selection of suitable cloud and hybrid solutions, cloud-native architecture design integrating performance, security and compliance, implementation of collaborative DevOps practices (CI/CD, Terraform), and delivery of a Proof of Concept validating the solution before large-scale deployment.

Technologies & expertise

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• CI/CD
• Terraform
• Cloud-native architecture

Results & business value

• A custom architecture aligned with the company's strategic ambitions
• Enhanced agility and reduced time-to-market via DevOps practices
• Seamless, flexible integration of hybrid cloud solutions
• Security and compliance aligned with regulatory standards and governance best practices

Conclusion

The project highlights T&S's multi-platform cloud expertise and its ability to bridge business strategy and technological choices through a phased, secure, POC-validated approach.