Disneyland Paris Gains Innovation and Long-Term Support from Multiyear Migration Project | ENTERTAINMENT

Disneyland Paris needed a partner that could help keep their IBM estate running optimally for extended periods and offer advice on both ground-level and strategic aspects of the ongoing migration. Every project required individualized support and guidance. With 35 IBM® software products ultimately needing to be managed, maintained, or migrated, leadership also understood the importance of a comprehensive strategy capable of accounting for complexities that arise within the ecosystem.

Crossing paths with Origina was a touch of perfect timing that will prove to pay out dividends for at least the next half-decade as Disneyland Paris rolls out and implements its new plans. The first step in our expansive maintenance project with the resort’s team involved a complete review of every IBM product in the estate. Based on the findings of Origina’s global independent IBM® software experts, we were able to offer a five-year maintenance plan that would allow Disneyland Paris to keep the software they had for as long as they wanted and move to their desired next platform(s) at their leisure. This provides Disney with a safe harbor to evaluate and implement their options without the fear of time pressures. Our team also supplied an ongoing migration and modernization strategy to lessen the inherent pressure of a highly involved 35-product changeover.

Because they trusted our strategy enough to give us keys to the Magic Kingdom, or rather IBM® estate at once, we were able to identify and deliver a total of $3 million in software support savings throughout the IT stack, compared to what the Disneyland Paris team would have paid by sticking with the OEM’s maintenance track.

But the difference in approach is what truly matters for Disneyland Paris’s project. With Origina on hand, the team won’t need to update versions to keep receiving support on the business-critical software it is phasing out. And that means Disneyland Paris will not need to enter (or extend) support agreements that could counteract its ability to move a given piece of the infrastructure when its plan dictates.

Instead, the Disneyland Paris team received active guidance from Origina IBM® experts who are first and foremost interested in helping them identify and follow through on any next steps they require – a necessity for a world-class business with a truly unique offering and one-of-a-kind tech stack.