Oakwood Case Studies
Explore real-world outcomes from clients who partnered with Oakwood to transform their data, cloud, and application ecosystems.
Below is a small sample of some of the recent projects we’ve been engaged on.
We’re constantly updating this section and currently working through some exciting projects from this year. Please check back often.
Recent Work: Clarios Accelerates Innovation with AMD-Powered HPC
See how Clarios slashed HPC workload times by over 85% using the AMD HPC Innovation Lab. What once took 14 hours now runs in just a few — the results speak for themselves.
Enhancing RDMS System with Azure Blob Storage Integration
Oakwood leveraged its extensive Azure Cloud and development expertise to integrate Azure Blob Storage into a world-leading semiconductor company’s RDMS system, enhancing it with several new features and improvements resulting in a more flexible, cost-effective, and performant system.
Revolutionizing Construction Insights with Centralized Data
A leading construction firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO, embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its data infrastructure and improve decision-making capabilities. The firm faced numerous challenges due to fragmented and inconsistent data scattered across multiple systems and applications.
Transforming Automotive Service Equipment with IoT Integration
In the fast-changing automotive service industry, connectivity and data insights are crucial for competitiveness. Our client, a St. Louis-based leader in automotive service equipment, recognized the need to evolve their traditional products to meet rising customer expectations for real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and remote management.
Seamless Data Center Migration
A major Texas-based data center needed a partner to migrate two on-premises domains and two Microsoft tenants into a single, unified domain. The goal was to streamline collaboration and communication by integrating tools like Teams, email, and OneDrive into a seamless experience.
Transforming EDA in Manufacturing
Applied Materials, known for its leadership in materials engineering, encountered significant challenges with its Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environment.
Revolutionizing Logistics
Discover how SN Partners, a John Deere dealer group, streamlined equipment delivery operations with AI-enabled automation using Microsoft Azure, reducing errors, improving efficiency, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
Microsoft Sentinel Deployment
Just a few months after implementation the AI tools within Sentinel had alerted the client to a suspicious key logger that had been deployed on one of their newly built workstations. This activity was actually missed by other installed endpoint protection utilities.
Managed SQL Services
Oakwood worked with Mississippi Lime to baseline their current environment and develop a strategic plan to help them monitor and support their current environment consisting of over 45 servers.
Exchange to 365 for Healthcare
The Oakwood Team leaned on their proven methodology in order to move their client’s mail to the cloud. This methodology allows Oakwood to communicate cost and duration more accurately to their client and properly address and mitigate known risks along the way.
Airwatch to Intune Migration for Healthcare Organization
One of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States looked to Oakwood’s Cloud Team to assist in moving nearly 33,000 users utilizing 15,000 devices from AirWatch to Intune to enable IT to better manage employee access to corporate data and applications.
Azure Active Directory (AD) & Exchange Migration
The merger of two companies into a single corporate entity created challenges for the internal IT Team when it came to managing its users across various platforms. They faced a challenging user permission and content migration project in moving content, mail, and user data from Google to M365.
High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Azure – Whitepaper
The Oakwood Team worked on an incredibly unique project involving a leader in elite genetics and biotechnology serving farmers around the globe. The data they provide to livestock owners is critical in helping them breed better quality animals while finding efficiencies in the production process.
Data Security with Microsoft Purview
Learn how Oakwood enhanced data security in Microsoft 365 by implementing an advanced data classification system with Microsoft Purview. This system accurately identified and encrypted sensitive information.
Power BI for Manufacturing Industry
Executive and operational need for more robust, up-to-date, timely and actionable reporting, both daily operational reports, financial reporting as well as historical, rolling month over month, quarter over quarter and annual reporting needs.
Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS)
Oakwood’s Data & Analytics Team was brought in to fill a temporary skill gap and operational need for an experienced data architect / engineer and report writer to continue to drive some of the organization’s key data and analytics initiatives.
Custom App Dev in Hospitality
Drury Hotels needed to make a meaningful change to the way users engage. They needed a responsive website solution designed to allow increased flexibility for mobile users to make and modify reservations, engaged through high-touch means with improved application flow.
Power BI Reporting for Steel Manufacturer
Oakwood’s client was experiencing significant pain around sales reporting. Most of the reporting was being done in Excel and was very manual and inefficient, They came to Oakwood for help reporting against a complex, on premises JD Edwards environment that had been highly customized.
APIs, Web Applications & Device Sourcing
Premium Retail Services (PRS) came to Oakwood to assist in overcoming technology challenges by providing product and technical architecture guidance. We aided PRS in developing the next generation of their employee, operations, and asset tracking applications to leverage field devices.
JD Edwards Azure Migration
On-premises JD Edwards servers were both cumbersome to manage and nearing obsolescence. Internal client stakeholders would have to communicate the benefits of maintenance and scalability to help offset initial cost increases in moving to Azure.
Power BI Reports
After the completion of a very successful Proof of Value engagement, Oakwood was engaged to assist with the complete redesign, data modeling and development of what was previously over 1000 individual reports across 4 of their manufacturing clients.
IoT in Manufacturing
This $2B manufacturing company was in the process of transitioning from a commodity player to a leader in the innovation space. They have been granted an opportunity to reshape the way they view their products & the needs of their customers. To capitalize on these needs – a cost effective, technical business innovation was required.
SharePoint 2007 Online Migration
After numerous hard drive failures due to aging server equipment. Oakwood partnered with St. Louis based idX to plan and migrate a SharePoint 2007 on-premises environment to SharePoint Online.
IoT & Analytics in Manufacturing
A nearly century old manufacturing company builds, sells, and supports a broad number of mechanically precise grinding machines to the defense and transportation industries. Their individual machines each has the ability to capture a host of metrics regarding their operations, but were not able to analyze or report data.
Windows Server 2008 to Azure
Oakwood’s client, a large Fortune 500 public utility provider serving Missouri and Kansas, sought out an experienced Gold Certified Microsoft Partner who possessed both a capable team and a proven process to migrate fifty (50) 2008 Windows Servers to Azure as end of support for this product was nearing.
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