Managing distant premises with little or no local IT staff, trying to face the uncontrolled and ruinous rate of software and hardware updates, ensuring data security…
These are a few of the tricky responsibilities of many CIOs working in SMB. At the same time, imagine your business sector experiences a strong digital transformation, namely digital broadcast distribution, leading to further reduced OPEX. Adopting Cloud is a solution but also a huge challenge for your current HR and IT organization. Which technologies and services are available and suit your needs? Which scopes should you target? How do you choose between full Cloud and hybrid Cloud and integrate the solutions? How should it be set up? How will operations be impacted and change supported? These are some of the questions this film distributor had, operating 100 sites in France with a heterogeneous IT landscape.
Everience helped its client to choose the right solutions and the right architecture to integrate leading market consultations and proofs of concept.
A hybrid Cloud architecture based on Microsoft solutions was designed to cope with the IT department tactics: outsource the basics and keep specific parts of IT infrastructure. Everience puts Cloud solutions to the test to find their limits in the client use context. After designing the target architecture, including IT security solutions, Everience’s experts set it up: DirSync, Office 365, Share Point Online, Exchange, Yammer, Master Windows 7 and Microsoft Intune. Intune enables the client to support BYOD. Everience continues to assist the client, taking care of service continuity, operating system monitoring, administration and change management. Getting only the resources required is a great benefit for SMB and even for large companies. The flexibility to scale resources up or down in real time and pay only for what you use radically changes the way the IT department supports the business.
The key is how fine-grained the set up of the hybrid cloud architecture is. Choosing the options that suit your intended use and your current context is a job for an expert.
Everience builds a complete methodology based on listening, seeing and understanding client context. Summing up the existing IT landscape in an accurate scale model demands a deep knowledge of the market-leading IT system platforms . The same goes for building a test plan. Modeling is an art. Everience also brings its knowledge to support changes and manage the hybrid Cloud thanks to its NOC (network operation center).
“Maximize our focus on mission-critical needs while reducing IT costs, that’s our job today. Transforming our IT infrastructure towards a Cloud based one was on our journey to business agility”
“Deciding where the Cloud can provide the greatest benefits is the key point where Everience experts help us”
“Once the project is launched, it is not so easy to understand all the possible impacts on operations and on users’ daily use of IT services. Everience helps us get the point of our transformation path”
