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| Name of project |
Disaster recovery plan and architecture implementation |
| Client |
Large UAE-based petrochemical company |
| Technology partner |
Paladion |
| Project objectives |
The project’s business objective was to prepare the company’s IT unit to implement a strategy that would mitigate the risk and potential impact of serious disasters. |
| Project scope |
- Thoroughly review current IT Infrastructure and systems
- Define business requirements
- Prepare a disaster recovery plan
- Work with Paladion Services to supervise the implementation of the disaster recovery architecture
- Create disaster recovery procedures
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| Client benefits |
- Disaster recovery procedures and infrastructure in place
- DR infrastructure aligned with business needs
- Risk of serious disasters mitigated
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| Name of project |
Centralization of business applications |
| Client |
Private group of trading companies with more than 100 multinational agreements for technical licensing, distribution, servicing or trade representation. |
| Technology partner |
Foundry, HP, Cisco |
| Project objectives |
- Design and implement IT infrastructure to support future technological innovation and expansion
- Centralize ERP access from company headquarters
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| Project scope |
- Turnkey solution encompassing servers, storage, WAN and LAN networking, network security and network management
- WAN connectivity spread across 13 branches, with IT security supported by VPN connectivity for each branch and remote users
- WAN and security components from Cisco Systems
- Foundry Load Balancer for load balancing the application servers to enable committed throughput and high availability
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| Client benefits |
ERP centralized |
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| Name of project |
Enterprise networking and security |
| Client |
Leading private sector trading and industrial conglomerate with widely diversified portfolio, operating around the GCC |
| Technology partner |
Cisco |
| Project objectives |
- Boost efficiency, enhance security, speed up networks
- Centralize services across the enterprise
- Support the complexity associated with changing applications requirements
- Enhance IT system performance
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| Project scope |
IP network, to:
- Maximize network infrastructure investments
- Simplify control and administration
- Facilitate the management of multiple applications
- Meet the need for new network security measures to address existing vulnerabilities
Design incorporated:
- Redundancy and scalability, providing scope for rapid growth, ensuring investment protection
- Security at network as well as perimeter to prevent network and Internet attacks
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| Client benefits |
- Greater network efficiency
- Centralized services
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| Name of project |
Infrastructure project |
| Client |
Aerospace manufacturing and services firm |
| Project objectives |
Build infrastructure to enable the organization to create and deliver innovative aerospace solutions. This involved the creation and implementation of a university management system and infrastructure |
| Project scope |
With HP as technology partner, EES:
- Laid the foundation to run ERP applications
- Laid the infrastructure to run the client’s university management system
- Built the university back-office infrastructure
- Delivered and installed HP Unix servers, blades and storage
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| Client benefits |
- Achieved greater ROI through automatically optimizing server resource utilization
- Unequalled application availability across multiple operating systems
- Increased control of service-level management
- Optimized IT environment
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Al Ruwais infrastructure network |
| Client |
Group of community colleges |
| Technology partner |
HP Invent, Aruba Networks |
| Project objectives |
Resolve major network performance bottlenecks as a result of growing demand |
| Project scope |
Solution based on:
- HP ProCurve technology
- Aruba 6000 mobility controller
- AP61 access points
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| Client benefits |
- Immediate performance gain
- Scalable, future-proof, switch architecture
- High-performance, reliable connectivity
- Ease-of-scalability for future growth
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Quality centre project Load runner project Functional testing project |
| Client |
Government department |
| Technology partner |
HP Invent |
| Project objectives |
Client was overhauling in-house development teams and required quality assurance so that applications were thoroughly tested before release. Client required complete suite of tightly-knit products |
| Project scope |
Solution based on HP Quality Centre:
- Business process testing
- Functional testing requirements
- Load testing prior to release
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| Client benefits |
- All information centralized and reused during application lifecycle
- Manual testing replaced by automated testing, with centralized dashboard for project status display
- Dashboards customizable to user requirements
- Ease of use and integration
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| Name of project |
Server consolidation |
| Client |
Very large bank |
| Technology partner |
HP Invent |
| Project objectives |
Client required improved server utilization. The reasons included:
- Server utilization was not distributed equally
- Maintenance was complicated
- Instant provision and upgrade of additional servers was difficult
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| Project scope |
EES’s solution:
- All critical applications consolidated into single HP Superdrome server, using hard and virtual partitions
- Each production server has corresponding development and test servers with similar environments
- Business continuity solution implemented simultaneously at disaster recovery site by consolidating production servers into single Superdrome server
- Single dashboard for viewing project status
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| Client benefits |
- Leading virtualization for consolidation and scalability
- Balanced high performance along with expansive capacity, flexibility, availability, security, and manageability.
- Improved system and application availability to all business units.
- No need for hardware spending over next two years
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Core banking hardware infrastructure |
| Client |
Newly established bank |
| Technology partner |
HP Invent |
| Project objectives |
Provide end-to-end server hardware infrastructure for core banking, debit card and credit card applications |
| Project scope |
Solution:
- Highly available solutions for critical applications (main & DR site) based on HP Integrity servers RX3600, RX6600; and Proliant servers DL380 G5.
- Complete backup solution including online database; backup systems offered with HP’s Critical Services (highest level of support by HP for business critical servers).
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| Client benefits |
FLEXCUBE product-based architecture allows bank to:
- Run various business lines on single application platform
- Define new products on template
- Utilize common services across all FLEXCUBE modules
- Integrated system allows bank to launch new products faster and more efficiently by eliminating requirements for extensive code modifications to multiple fragmented systems
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LAN/WAN infrastructure project |
| Client |
Technical training institution |
| Technology partner |
HP Invent |
| Project objectives |
Client to achieve performance gain and support growth within tight budget constraints. Flexible, highly available, secure infrastructure, made available over high speed wireless LAN providing tight security, scalability and manageability |
| Project scope |
ProCurve Networking end-to-end HP solution, including servers, switches and software |
| Client benefits |
FLEXCUBE product-based architecture allows bank to:
- Reassurance that network would be standardized on one supplier with strong local presence, backed up support
- ProCurve Network's highly dynamic and secure infrastructure enables client to deliver innovations
- Cost savings on competitive solutions, product lifetime warranty, free software upgrades
- Peace of mind, in particular concerning scalability, security, and availability
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| Name of project |
Project and Portfolio Management |
| Client |
Large trading and holding company in transport, logistics, marine and port services |
| Technology partner |
HP Invent |
| Project objectives |
Client has more than 70 subsidiary companies. Major challenge to monitor each project manually |
| Project scope |
Solution: Using HP PPM, the client addresses its most challenging IT governance problems and maximize returns from its IT portfolio. |
| Client benefits |
FLEXCUBE product-based architecture allows bank to:
- Govern IT by managing strategic projects and operational activities, aggregating operational demand and proposal requests through single user interface;
- Improve efficiency by automatically optimizing selection of projects and operational activities through new portfolio optimization engine, based on user-defined criteria
- Achieve and maintain regulatory compliance across field-level audit trails to track all changes to projects and critical applications
- Achieve unified view across strategic projects and operational activities
- Plan and execute with flexible approach to portfolio management.
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