Candid Partners, now known as Cloud by McKinsey, enables clients to realize their strategic goals by addressing highly complex and technical business issues by delivering end-to-end cloud transformations from initial strategy, business-case development, and road mapping to designing the architecture, migrating applications, and optimizing workloads.

McKinsey acquired Candid in 2021.

Client Impact

Creating the world’s first mainframe modernization on public cloud

We transformed a legacy mainframe into a modern, scalable solution based on a public cloud infrastructure, boosting business agility and reducing operational expenses by 90 percent.

Transforming a payment-processing gateway with multiregional, active-active capabilities

By eliminating legacy technical debt, driving lower operational overhead, and prioritizing more actionable metrics, we increased the capability and security of a business-critical payment processing gateway, achieving a zero-downtime solution.

Redesigning a $20 billion cloud-native platform for CPG client

We created a serverless integration platform based on native AWS as a replacement for the webMethods Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) hub, enabling a $24 million annual gain from eliminating system outages and improved continuity.

Related Practice

Cloud by McKinsey

The cloud is revolutionizing how businesses create value, but only when tech organizations, and the business, understand how to use it and change how they operate.