Preparing for the technological needs of the future with AWS

“Our goals are not just about delivering stable IT operations to our customers, but helping them with digital transformation and increasing their competitiveness in the market,” says Fredrik Ohlsen, CEO of Basefarm.

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He points out that most industries and companies, whether these are airlines, car dealers or hospitals, will have to undertake a digitalization journey in the near future. Even for companies that are in a strong market position today, there is no guarantee that they will survive future competition if they do not have a good digital business strategy designed for a new generation of customers.

“So we say: Let’s get ahead. Let’s help our customers in the cloud journey with our key expertise and services that facilitate sustainability, innovation and cost-effective development,” says Fredrik.

As a certified AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), Basefarm is demonstrating that it is gearing up to meet the technological needs of the future, and that they are already ready to deliver.

“We have invested tremendous time and resources so that we, as Norway’s first AWS MSP, will be able to deliver incredible expertise to both existing and new customers,” says Fredrik.

The new certification testifies that Basefarm not only possesses unique expertise in cloud infrastructure and application migration, but also expertise and services that underpin next-generation applications and microservices. It can proactively contribute to value creation through monitoring, automation and business-critical IT operations for its customers.

Fredrik points out that this places Basefarm among a selected few: when customers inevitably need help, a help that even AWS is unable to offer, then Basefarm comes onto the field.

“It is a crucial stamp of quality that we have both broad and deep expertise in place: that we have the ability to both advise and implement the technology, but also to operate it, in other words we can underpin a complete cloud journey – from innovation to full-scale production. This means that when someone is interested in public cloud technology and is looking into AWS, it’s clear that AWS will point to the list of partners who have this certification,” says Fredrik, and continues:

“And the fact that they, one of the world’s most recognized companies, consider us a significant value-adding partner, is something we are proud of.

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Traditional IT operations meets the customers of the future

Fredrik further explains that because AWS invests heavily in development and innovation every year, it ensures that Basefarm, and its customers, have access to a huge range of new technology; new tools and features that are constantly evolving.

“That’s what’s so amazing!” There are many features and tools that can be accessed using cloud solutions. At the same time, this places enormous demands on companies like us and our employees to keep up to date with everything that is released, so that we can guide customers in the right direction.

For many companies, the question is no longer whether to move workloads and applications to the cloud, but when. The fact that the industry is in continuous and rapid development and that different forms of technology and services are constantly being used is a challenge for many.

“No customer can keep track of all this; that’s our niche,” says Fredrik, explaining that Basefarm has put the entire organization behind the cloud journey, so that they can leverage the full scope the technology has to offer customers at any time.

The certification proves that Basefarm can support an entire life cycle for the next generation digital business. This is how they now cater for a new generation of customers who have larger and completely new requirements for their suppliers.