Cloud modernisation for manufacturing & FMCG businesses

Build an infrastructure that grows with your business.

Modernise legacy systems, automate delivery, and scale with confidence.

Faster releases
Lower cloud waste
Fewer outages
More capacity for growth

The release-speed gap

Legacy Elite Monthly to
every 6 months Release On demand,
many times a day 1 to 6 months Lead time Under a day A week or more Recovery Under an hour

Source: DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) benchmarks

21+ years in business
120+ full-time engineers
AWS Services Partner
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Multicloud: AWS, Azure, GCP

Most businesses aren't short on ambition. They're held back by infrastructure that wasn't built to keep pace with it.

Here is where that gap usually shows up first, and what it is costing the business in each case.

Releases move slower than the business needs

Every release is still a manual, multi-step process, so new capability reaches customers later than it should.

Engineering time goes into keeping old systems running

The team that should be shipping features spends its week firefighting instead of building what is next.

Cloud spend keeps rising without a clear line to value

Growth in spend should track growth in the business, not run ahead of it.

A launch waits on infrastructure

A new plant, product, or market launch waits on infrastructure, instead of infrastructure being ready for it.

One serious outage could interrupt growth for months

Not just a day. The business needs to know its infrastructure can absorb pressure, not just survive it.

None of this is permanent. It is exactly where the right infrastructure changes the outcome.

The four outcomes modernisation is really about.

Four things change when infrastructure catches up with the business. Here is the gap most companies start from, and the outcome on the other side of it.

Cost control

29%

of cloud spend wasted, industry-wide

From unpredictable cloud bills to spend you can plan around

Flexera's 2026 State of the Cloud report found that 29% of cloud (IaaS and PaaS) spend is wasted industry-wide, the highest level in five years, largely driven by AI workloads. On 1 crore a year of cloud spend, that is roughly 29 lakh a year that better visibility and FinOps can put back into the business. Cost governance is now mainstream practice, not a nice-to-have: 71% of organisations run a Cloud Centre of Excellence and 63% have a dedicated FinOps team.

What changes

Cloud spend that scales in line with the business, with visibility into where every rupee goes.

Source: Flexera, 2026 State of the Cloud Report

Engineering capacity

75% → 25%

engineer time spent paying down tech debt, after restructuring

From maintaining the past to building what is next

McKinsey describes technical debt as a tax on development, and 60% of CIOs say their organisation's technical debt has grown perceptibly over the past three years. One cloud provider's CIO told McKinsey that after restructuring how they managed debt, the share of engineer time spent paying that tax dropped from 75% to 25%, freeing roughly half the team's time for work that actually moves the business forward.

What changes

Engineers spend their week on the roadmap, not on keeping old systems alive.

Source: McKinsey, "Tech debt: Reclaiming tech equity"

Speed to scale

20–40%

of the technology estate can be technical debt

From infrastructure projects to infrastructure that is already ready

McKinsey's research across 220 companies found that technical debt can represent 20 to 40% of a company's entire technology estate, and that 10 to 20% of budget meant for new products often gets diverted to fixing legacy issues instead, with close to a third of CIOs putting that diversion above 20%. At the most affected companies, McKinsey found that nearly half of all IT change spending goes toward applications already planned for retirement, capacity that could otherwise fund growth.

What changes

A new plant, product, or market launch is a business decision, not an infrastructure project.

Source: McKinsey, "Demystifying digital dark matter"

Reliability

57%

of recent significant outages cost more than $100,000

From firefighting to confidence

The Uptime Institute's 2026 Annual Outage Analysis found that 57% of organisations' most recent significant outage cost more than $100,000, and about 1 in 5 cost more than $1 million, both higher than two years earlier as inflation, labour costs, and longer recovery times push the price of an outage up.

What changes

Issues get caught before they become outages, and the business can grow without growing its exposure to risk.

Source: Uptime Institute, 2026 Annual Outage Analysis

Sources: McKinsey ("Tech debt: Reclaiming tech equity" and "Demystifying digital dark matter"), Flexera's 2026 State of the Cloud Report, and the Uptime Institute's 2026 Annual Outage Analysis. These are industry benchmarks used to frame the scale of the opportunity, not a guarantee of savings for any individual business.

You've probably already tried to fix this.

Most teams do not ignore the problem. They just have not had a structural fix yet.

Hired more engineers

who ended up pulled into maintenance work too.

Asked the team to prioritise cleanup

but the next release always came first.

Added monitoring tools

but nobody had the time to act on every alert.

Talked about a full rebuild

but a full rebuild is expensive and risky, so it keeps moving to next quarter.

None of this is a lack of effort. What has been missing is a phased path to the outcome, one that does not require replacing everything at once.

What waiting costs your growth plans.

Modernisation does not come with a deadline on a calendar. But every month it is postponed, the current environment keeps consuming the resources that growth needs.

Companies with the most severe technical debt invest about 50% less than average on modernisation, and are 40% more likely to have an IT modernisation project stall or get cancelled than companies with the least debt.

Source: McKinsey

The question is not really whether to modernise. It is whether to build the infrastructure that grows with you now, on your terms, or later, on your infrastructure's terms.

Fewer engineering hours available for the roadmap, because more of them go to maintaining and troubleshooting.
Less budget for new capability, because more of it services technical debt.
Less visibility into cloud spend, and less of it working for the business.
More exposure to outages, failed deployments, and emergency recovery work.
More friction on every new growth initiative, from a new product to a new plant.
More complexity, which makes the eventual modernisation harder and slower the longer it waits.

Industry averages make the point. Your own numbers make the decision.

Use the numbers below as a starting example, then get a real figure with a Modernisation Assessment.

Where capacity is tied up Illustrative example Per year

Engineering time 20 engineers × 5 hours/week on infrastructure firefighting × Rs. 2,000/hour ≈ Rs. 1.04 crore a year

Cloud waste Rs. 1 crore annual cloud spend × 29% industry estimate ≈ Rs. 29 lakh a year

Downtime exposure Rs. 50 lakh daily revenue over 8 operating hours = Rs. 6.25 lakh/hour; a 4-hour outage ≈ Rs. 25 lakh exposed

Innovation budget Rs. 10 crore technology budget × 10–20% diverted to technical debt ≈ Rs. 1–2 crore a year

These figures are illustrative, based on external industry research (McKinsey and Flexera), not a claim about any specific business. A Modernisation Assessment replaces these with your actual numbers.

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Migration on its own does not get you there.

Moving an old application from an on-premise server to a cloud server changes where it runs, not how the business operates it. It can still have the same manual deployments, the same monitoring gaps, and the same security issues it had before. Modernisation changes how a workload is built, released, secured, scaled, and operated, and that is what turns infrastructure into something the business can grow on.

Before

After

Legacy application

Modernised application

Manual infrastructure

Infrastructure as code

Inconsistent environments

Consistent, repeatable environments

Manual deployment

Automated CI/CD

Limited monitoring

Centralised monitoring and observability

Production issue turns into firefighting

Faster detection and recovery

Release gets delayed, business waits

Releases ship faster, business moves

What the gap actually looks like

This is not an abstract difference. DORA's DevOps research benchmarks the gap between teams every year, and it is large. Elite performers release on demand, multiple times a day, with less than a day between a code change and it reaching customers, and they recover from a failed deployment in under an hour. Teams still running on manual, legacy processes typically release once a month to once every six months, need one to six months to get a single change live, and can take a week or more to recover when something breaks.

Source: DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) benchmarks

How Promact gets you there.

A phased approach. You do not need to replace everything at once, and your team stays involved at every step.

Assess

Understand what each workload actually needs, and where the real risk and waste sit.

Modernise the workload

Rehost, refactor, containerise, or re-architect, based on what fits, not a one-size-fits-all rebuild.

Modernise infrastructure and delivery

Build scalable, secure cloud infrastructure with CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.

Modernise operations

Add monitoring, observability, alerting, and disaster recovery, so issues are caught before they become outages.

Modernise economics

Bring in FinOps and ongoing cost optimisation, so savings do not quietly slip back over time.

Start with a clear picture, not a commitment.

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Each level builds toward the next.

From the technical work through to what the business actually feels.

Level What changes

Technical More consistent environments, automated releases, better monitoring, improved scalability, stronger resilience, and better security controls.

Operational Less manual infrastructure work, faster incident detection, fewer release dependencies, less firefighting, and more predictable operations.

Financial Better cloud cost control, less wasted engineering capacity, lower operational inefficiency, and reduced exposure to costly downtime.

Business Faster delivery of new capabilities, greater ability to scale, reduced technology risk, and more capacity for innovation.

Built for manufacturing and FMCG.

Manufacturing

When a plant increases production, the business expects the systems behind it to keep up.

If infrastructure needs manual provisioning and configuration, that expectation runs into a bottleneck right when it matters most. This is already where the industry is heading: Deloitte's 2026 manufacturing outlook found that 80% of manufacturers plan to put 20% or more of their improvement budgets into smart manufacturing, with cloud computing named as one of the foundational technologies behind it. Promact builds infrastructure that is scalable, observable, automated, resilient, and secure, so technology is ready for operational demand instead of catching up to it.

Source: Deloitte, 2026 Manufacturing Industry Outlook

FMCG

Demand moves in seasons. Technology should scale right alongside it.

Supply chain and distribution platforms need to scale with demand, so a launch or a peak period is met with confidence instead of strain. When demand increases, technology should scale right alongside it.

Why Promact.

21+ years in business

An established technology partner with long-term delivery experience.
120+ full-time engineers

More delivery capacity than relying on a small specialist team.
88% employee retention

Continuity of knowledge across your engagement, not a rotating team.
AWS & Microsoft partner

AWS Services Partner and Microsoft Solutions Partner: recognised relationships with two major cloud platforms.
Multicloud capability

Engineering expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Full lifecycle delivery

Strategy, migration, modernisation, DevOps, security, monitoring, and optimisation, under one team.

Named client case studies and quantified before/after results for this service are being verified and will be published here as they are confirmed.

Answering the doubts.

"We already have an internal team." +

Good. Most engagements work alongside your existing team, adding modernisation expertise where it is needed rather than replacing what you already have.

"We cannot disrupt operations." +

Modernisation happens in phases. Critical systems keep running while the infrastructure underneath them is improved, step by step.

"Migration sounds risky." +

That is exactly why we assess first. You get a clear, honest view of risk areas and priorities before committing to change anything.

"Why not do it ourselves?" +

You can, and many teams handle parts of it well. The gap is usually time, and specialised expertise across cloud, DevOps, and security all at once, not intent.

"Will this actually reduce our costs?" +

We will not promise a number upfront. A Modernisation Assessment gives you a realistic, numbers-based view of where the opportunity actually is, based on your environment, not an industry average.

Build the infrastructure that grows with you.

Modernise legacy systems, automate delivery, and scale with confidence.

Start with a clear picture, not a commitment. A Modernisation Assessment shows you where infrastructure is holding growth back, what changes first, and what the path to a scalable, automated, and reliable environment looks like for your business.

No obligation.
No pressure to replace everything at once.
Just a clear path to infrastructure that keeps up with where you are headed.

Build an infrastructure that grows with your business.

Most businesses aren't short on ambition. They're held back by infrastructure that wasn't built to keep pace with it.

Releases move slower than the business needs

Engineering time goes into keeping old systems running

Cloud spend keeps rising without a clear line to value

A launch waits on infrastructure

One serious outage could interrupt growth for months

The four outcomes modernisation is really about.

From unpredictable cloud bills to spend you can plan around

From maintaining the past to building what is next

From infrastructure projects to infrastructure that is already ready

From firefighting to confidence

You've probably already tried to fix this.

What waiting costs your growth plans.

Industry averages make the point. Your own numbers make the decision.

Migration on its own does not get you there.

What the gap actually looks like

How Promact gets you there.

Assess

Modernise the workload

Modernise infrastructure and delivery

Modernise operations

Modernise economics

Each level builds toward the next.

Built for manufacturing and FMCG.

Why Promact.

Answering the doubts.

Build the infrastructure that grows with you.

We are a family of Promactians

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Pune

USA