In recent years, this aging infrastructure has become a growing operational bottleneck. TaylorMade’s IT leadership saw the need to finally modernize this integration stack. “We were going through upgrades that didn’t necessarily deliver great functionality for the cost,” says Rossen Petkov, Senior Manager of Application Technologies for Global IT. “Some of our legacy systems also required physical servers in our data center, which we couldn’t deploy to the cloud. These limitations were holding us back from where we needed to go as a business.”
The challenges extended beyond technical constraints. TaylorMade’s global business was evolving rapidly, with new demands for data warehouses in international markets, various order intake channels including e-commerce and wholesale, mobile applications for sales teams and specialized systems for departments ranging from legal to R&D. Each new business initiative required additional integration points, making their legacy middleware environment increasingly difficult (and costly) to manage and maintain.
“With our data landscape growing more complex each quarter, we decided to take a step back,” says Petkov. “Instead of investing in outdated systems, we looked at how we can be proactive. Our new strategy was to consolidate and modernize our toolset with the best-in-class on the market.”