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How Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil Cuts Cloud Costs by 30%

Author: Camila Modena

This customer story was first published on Beyondsoft Brazil and translated to English.

The Challenge

Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil operate over 190 locations supporting 14,000 employees. By 2022, the company faced a costly problem: their cloud infrastructure was expensive, sluggish, and lacked the controls needed to scale efficiently.

When you’re operating at this scale, speed and reliability aren’t negotiable. We were overspending on cloud services without the governance or agility we needed. Every technology investment has to deliver returns, so we brought in expertise to help us get there.

Reinaldo Faria, CISO & Head of ICT at Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil

The Solution

Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil partnered with us to redesign their cloud infrastructure. The engagement focused on cost transparency, waste elimination, and the implementation of governance and security best practices.

The outcome: cloud expenses dropped 30% on average. The company used those savings to migrate their restaurant websites to Microsoft’s platform, improving site performance and customer experience. The infrastructure became faster and more adaptable, making it easier to add new workloads without ballooning costs.

The Results

By stabilizing the cloud cost curve, we also delivered a more agile and scalable infrastructure, enabling efficient migration of additional workloads to the cloud. A great example was migrating the website to the Microsoft platform, which leveraged the savings generated and improved the digital experience for end customers. Our role was that of an active partner, ensuring every step of this digital journey added value to Outback, Abbraccio, and Aussie’s IT environment while reinforcing customer satisfaction.

Eduardo Mecking, Head of Microsoft Alliance, Beyondsoft Americas

We stabilized our spending and gained the flexibility we didn’t have before. That opened the door to strengthening our digital presence and planning confidently for the future.

Reinaldo Faria, CISO & Head of ICT at Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil

Next Steps

What’s next is generative AI. Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil are now exploring how to apply AI to sales processes and business forecasting, building on the stable foundation they created.

Governance and cost control gave us room to innovate. We’re focused on AI and staying ahead operationally. We’re doing it from a much stronger position than we were three years ago.

Reinaldo Faria, CISO & Head of ICT at Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio, and Aussie Brazil

If your organization needs to resolve rising cloud cost issues our team is ready to share what this approach could look like for you. Get in touch with us.