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ALL OF THE COMPANY SOFTWARE WAS REPLACED; THIS INCLUDED COMPLETE
REBUILDS AND UPGRADES OF OUR MICROSOFT ENVIRONMENT, THE ACTIVE
DIRECTORY FOREST WAS REBUILT WITH NEW SECURITY AND GROUP POLICIES,
EXCHANGE DAG CLUSTER SETUP, SQL SERVER CLUSTER SETUP AND ERP
MIGRATION. VIRTUALISATION OF OUR SERVERS WITH VMWARE, VIRTUALISATION
OF APPLICATIONS AND DESKTOPS WITH CITRIX, REBUILDS OF OUR DESKTOPS
AND LAPTOPS AND UPDATING OF SOFTWARE ON THE CLIENT MACHINES
as well as Office 365 also took place.
This gives the benefit of real time,
accurate information on individual
group companies and the group as
a whole. Departments and Divisions
can utilise the Microsoft Dynamics
AX to control costs, monitor projects
and business to help increase
profitability, improve collaboration
and productivity, and increase
opportunities within the group.
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Training programmes company-wide
to upskill staff were run.
Sharepoint was setup to keep full
document records for projects
enabling the business to trace issues
and resolve problems in the future if
they arise. Security was enhanced and
improved as the new environment was
designed with security as its core from
the beginning. Office 365 enabled
greater collaboration within the
group and as this was cloud based,
deployment was be done at speed.
Other initiatives currently include a
SAP R/4 HANA rollout for some of our
group companies.
What would you say is
particularly innovative about
this project(s)?
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