Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 16 | Page 72

INDUSTRY WATCH 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. 72 INTELLIGENTCIO 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)? I believe the innovative aspects of www.intelligentcio.com