Fletcher Building partners with TCS and Google Cloud to drive growth through data and digital innovation

21 Mar 2022 , 04:17 PM

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Google Cloud has announced that they have partnered with Fletcher Building to build a flexible, Google cloud-based enterprise platform to support long-term growth and innovation.

With operations in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific, Fletcher Building has more than 25 different businesses across manufacturing, distribution, retail, home building, and major infrastructure projects.

With numerous different ERP systems, a myriad of business processes, and the growing need for a comprehensive view of its customers, Fletcher Building launched the Digital@Fletchers program to drive technology-led change and growth in the business.

Fletcher Building is partnering with Google Cloud and TCS to implement enterprise-grade, cloud capability to run its mission-critical enterprise workloads to enable greater uptime and flexibility, develop its customer data strategy to create an end-to-end understanding of customer needs and behaviours, and to respond quickly to market changes and opportunities.

TCS will use its multi-horizon cloud transformation framework and extensive cloud experience to help Fletcher Building build a new future-ready digital core using Google Cloud. This foundation will simplify the infrastructure landscape, reduce technology debt, host mission-critical workloads, provide a unified view of its customers and enable future innovation.

“We see digital as a key driver of transformation, growth and innovation at Fletcher Building,” said Daniel Beecham, Chief Information Officer, Fletcher Building. “As we continue to ramp up our ecommerce, digitisation, automation and data analytics functions, we need a stable and secure technology platform that can cater to our needs today–and support us into the future. Google Cloud's powerful data and analytics capabilities and its co-innovation agenda with SAP, combined with TCS’ domain industry knowledge and cloud engineering expertise, made it the logical choice to underpin Digital@Fletchers.”

“Building for the future starts with having the right digital foundations,” said Alister Dias, Vice President Google Cloud, Australia and New Zealand. “By partnering with Google Cloud and TCS, Fletcher Building is now able to modernise its mission critical systems for greater scalability and availability, build its data capabilities and deepen connections with customers — all on the industry’s cleanest cloud.”

“TCS is pleased to partner with Fletcher Building and Google Cloud to create a new digital core that will enable better customer experience through data-driven insights and analytics and support future growth. Our deep industry knowledge, technology expertise and extensive portfolio of accelerators will enable Fletcher Building to harness the full power of cloud to reimagine all aspects of their business,” said Ganesa Subramanian Vaikuntam, Business Unit Head, Retail, Travel, Transportation and Hospitality, TCS ANZ.

TCS ended at Rs3,625.25 apiece down by Rs49.95 or 1.36% on the BSE.