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Levi Strauss & Co. Story Collection

Accelerating retail operations, creativity, and engagement

With an AI-powered operating model, Levi Strauss & Co. modernizes retail
operations, connects data, and accelerates creative and customer experiences.
Overview

Levi Strauss & Co. builds an AI-enabled business for modern retail

Levi Strauss & Co. is evolving into a Frontier Firm by modernizing the digital backbone of its 175-year-old heritage brand.

From apps and data to infrastructure and operations, Levi’s is building a connected foundation for AI that helps teams move faster, respond to changing consumer needs, and scales intelligence across the enterprise.
REIMAGINED RETAIL

Built to move faster

Levi Strauss & Co. is migrating and modernizing to strengthen the apps, data, and infrastructure behind its global retail business, while creating the connected foundation for AI.
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Modernization with measurable impact

“The move to Azure has been a huge unlock for our business.”
Saravana Ramaratnam, VP, Global ERP & Enterprise Platforms, Levi Strauss & Co.
6 months
Migration timeline reduced from nine months
2-3 hours
Saved per server migration
2x
Improvement in database latency
60% 
Improvement in IOPS
“It was becoming too expensive to own and operate our own datacenters. We’re going to see significant yearly savings by migrating out of our datacenters and into Azure.”
Shawn Harris, Senior Director for Enterprise Platform Services, Levi Strauss & Co.
"Levi's is really a growth story, and as we rewire how we work,
the right technology underpins everything we plan to do for this next chapter of growth."
Jason Gowans, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Levi Strauss & Co.
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Azure Migrate

Orchestrate migration and modernization with full-lifecycle agentic support.

Azure Arc

Manage resources across datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments.

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Modernize SQL apps with a fully managed cloud database service.

Azure Kubernetes Service

Deploy and manage containerized apps at scale with managed Kubernetes.

GitHub Copilot 

Use AI pair programming to write code faster and with less effort. 

Microsoft Fabric

Unite data and services in an AI-powered analytics platform.
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