Cloud Migration: The Wallace Group's Journey to Efficiency and Cost Savings

The Wallace Group, a recognized geosystem expert in the Pacific Northwest, faced a significant challenge when their servers crashed in fall 2020. The crash highlighted the need for a more reliable and efficient system to manage their projects, create invoices, and process payroll. The company was also grappling with the challenge of effectively supporting their distributed workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their on-premises solution was not fully equipped to support their teams when they had to close their offices temporarily. The company was also burdened with the cost of maintaining in-house hardware, including the purchase of a new server every five years and the cost of outsourcing frequent and expensive system updates to their external IT vendor to keep their systems secure and up-to-date.

The Wallace Group is a recognized geosystem expert in the Pacific Northwest. They provide practical, applied earth and environmental science solutions to clients in the transportation, water, energy, commercial, industrial, institutional, and governmental markets. The multidisciplinary consulting services company of 17 provides services throughout the project life cycle from initial environmental studies to project plans/specifications and International Building Code (IBC) inspection and testing during construction. Their recent project highlights include a variety of engineering and construction services at the Bend Science Station at OSU-Cascades Campus; Cloudchaser Chair Lift at Mt. Bachelor; Caldera High School; Facebook’s Prineville Data Center Campus; High Desert Proving Grounds for Daimler Trucks North America, LLC; Huntington Lodge at Pronghorn Resort; Intensive Care Unit and Patient Tower for St. Charles Health System, Inc.; and Opal Springs Fish Passage in the Crooked River Canyon.