IT Automation at Hivenet

How Hivenet automated and secured their IT operations - saving money and countless hours of manual work around governing licences, identities and user access.

"Our starting point with Corma was cost control and tool governance. We're expending it to the onboarding automation which was a gamechanger for our existing manual processes."

Corma Client Thorsten from Mrge <3

Christophe Torride, Chief of Staff

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Challenge

For the international & distributes team, IT Governance took a lot of time and was a challenge to keep cost, compliance and employee experience in check.

Solution

Providing a central solution for all software licences, users and accesses to discover Shadow IT, track software expenses and automate on- & off-boardings.
Corma client Hivenet logo

Hivenet is a company that offers a secure and sustainable distributed cloud platform. They provide services for storing files and contributing resources to a community-driven cloud, as well as using distributed GPU cloud for AI and HPC tasks. Their mission is to give users control over their data while promoting a more sustainable digital world.

Industry
Cloud provider
Employees
90
Number of SaaS tool
60+
Founded
2022

The Challenges

Challenging On & Offboardings

For the growing team, manual provisioning and de-provisioning took a lot of time. With the willingness to be a great employeer a stellar employee experience should also be achieved on the IT level.

Fight Shadow IT

As a tech company, people love trying new tools. But in the cloud industry security and compliance are non-negotiable and the usage of unauthorised apps needs to be monitored to spot risky tools.

Monitor Software Usage

Hivenet's international and distributed team is using plenty of software tools. As they became increasingly numerous so that it is becoming difficult to monitor and manage usage to consolidate the software stack.

The results

Outcome 1: Automation

Over 40 automated on-/off-boardings

Outcome 2: Security

Discovery of over 87 Shadow IT tools & risk assessment

Outcome 3: Efficiency

Consolidation of software stack by cutting over 150 unused licences saving thousand of Euros.

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