Powering Seamless Media Enterprise Separation

Powering seamless media enterprise separation with a future-ready digital core

Secure separation. Seamless continuity. Day-one readiness.

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Overview

A global media and entertainment operations company was separating from its former parent company and needed to establish an independent enterprise technology foundation for its 5,000+ employees. The transition had to bring together SAP, digital workplace and cybersecurity capabilities, enhanced by AI-led innovation, while keeping mission-critical media operations stable, secure and uninterrupted.

HCLTech partnered with the organization as a trusted advisor and transformation partner, supported by strong senior leadership engagement on both sides. This foundation of trust, transparency and shared ambition helped shape a future-ready, innovation-driven technology roadmap for independent operations.

The Challenge

Delivering enterprise separation without slowing the business

The client’s separation created a high-stakes transformation mandate: establish an independent enterprise technology ecosystem while keeping broadcast and media operations running without disruption. Every decision had to balance speed, stability, business continuity and readiness for scalable transformation.

Time-bound carve-out: The new entity had to achieve full independence from shared parent systems within a fixed timeline.
Parallel transformation across domains: SAP, digital workplace and cybersecurity tracks had to be built and stabilized simultaneously.
Complex application landscape: A broad portfolio of systems required integration, harmonization and readiness for day-one operations.
Operational continuity: Broadcast and media services needed to remain uninterrupted throughout the transition.
Rapid global mobilization: Distributed teams (over 100 members) had to ramp up quickly while maintaining governance, quality and delivery discipline.

Powering seamless media enterprise separation with a future-ready digital core

The Solution

Engineering a secure, scalable and go-live-ready digital core

HCLTech delivered an end-to-end carve-out and transformation program anchored in structured governance, precise migration and cross-domain execution. The approach was designed to reduce transition risk, accelerate readiness and give the new organization a resilient technology backbone from the start.

Defined a clear separation blueprint: Established scope, sequencing and ownership across finance, HCM, payroll, procurement, digital workplace and cybersecurity systems to create a controlled transformation path.
Built a secure “golden shell” foundation: Created a scalable target environment designed for day-one business readiness and long-term flexibility.
Executed large-scale data migration using industry best practices: Ensured a seamless data migration for 5,000+ users from the parent to the spinoff company, with accuracy and enhanced user experience.
Integrated and harmonized 80+ enterprise systems: Established a unified technology landscape to support seamless business operations, cross-platform connectivity and long-term scalability.
Strengthened assurance through governance and testing: Applied structured governance, executed over 10,000 test scripts and ensured controlled cutover planning to protect stability at go-live.
Enabled rapid multi-location scaling: Delivered end-to-end transition across SAP, digital workplace and cybersecurity tracks through accelerated ramp-up and coordinated execution to support 5,000+ users across the globe.
Leveraged ecosystem and AI-led delivery strengths: Brought together HCLTech’s SAP, digital workplace and cybersecurity expertise with innovation-led delivery and partner ecosystem support.

The Impact

Enabling confident independence and uninterrupted operations

Delivered proven execution with speed and credibility: Achieved rapid mobilization of 100+ team members who supported complex finance, HCM, procurement and security operations.
Enabled Day-one business readiness: Established a secure and scalable operating platform capable of supporting independent business operations from the outset.
Assured stability through rigorous governance and testing: Strengthened readiness through 10,000+ test script executions, cutover planning and controlled execution.
Improved cybersecurity posture: Demonstrated the ability to scale up robust GRC, vulnerability management and cyber defense teams, ensuring a seamless spinoff.
Positioned the organization for future growth: Created opportunities to expand into BPO and Infrastructure services, enabled through AI-led solutions and strategic ecosystem partnerships with AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI.

The Result

HCLTech enabled the company to establish a secure, scalable and resilient digital foundation, supporting uninterrupted media operations today and creating the agility to accelerate future transformation.