Building AI-Ready Infrastructure: How John Holland Group Achieved Operational Excellence with End-To-End Observability

This IDC Perspective discusses the execution details of the Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2024 in the Asia/Pacific region. John Holland Group transformed its IT infrastructure by adopting a cloud-native, AI-ready digital platform with end-to-end observability, enabling seamless operations, enhanced collaboration, and proactive issue resolution. By leveraging scalable and cloud-centric solutions, such as software-defined WAN and LogicMonitor’s unified observability platform, the company reduced monitoring tools by 75% and observability costs by 40%. This is a good example of how enterprises can leverage enterprisewide infrastructure automation and observability to radically overhaul their operational outcomes while benefitting from lower costs."John Holland Group's success demonstrates that AI-ready digital infrastructure is not only a buzzword but also a business imperative that can be meaningfully realized by methodical application and incrementally accretive actions. By investing in scalable, autonomous, cloud-native platforms with full observability, enterprises can unlock the data-driven insights needed to fuel AI innovation and streamline complex operations," says Pushkaraksh Shanbhag, associate research director for infrastructure research, IDC Asia/Pacific.