Technology in Action Butler Technologies and its move to the cloud John Carney, Chief Financial Officer
Content Butler Technologies and its journey to the cloud About Butler Technologies Our technology challenges Why cloud and why Office 365? Implementation Business benefits
Who are we? Founded in 1997 to provide secure communications, test and measurement systems to telecoms and electronic sectors. Based in Maynooth, Co Kildare and we employ 30 Acquired Transtest in 2005 to provide in-house and on-site equipment repair and calibration
What were our technology challenges? Connectivity and VPN issues for mobile workers Burgeoning email storage requirements Network downtime Windows XP end of life Tight IT budget
What was our IT strategy? Move to the Cloud More resilient and robust and introduces a new level of confidence in our IT Requires less IT administration overhead Allows us to get down to business
How did we get there? MJ Flood Technology consulting team guided our thinking Designed and implemented a migration strategy to cloud-based communications Deployed 30 Office 365 seats including Exchange, SharePoint and SkyDrive Pro now OneDrive
Benefits of the Cloud Safe, secure, reliable email platform Capex versus Opex financing model Streamlined email storage in the cloud Improved collaboration with on site and off site document sharing Less application downtime and fewer IT issues ‘Evergreen’ software with staff always working off the latest version Full features and functionality used by staff thanks to ‘compulsory’ training
My advice to other organisations Partner with an IT services provider that understands your business Don’t neglect staff training
Thank you for listening John Carney, CFO, Butler Technologies john@butlertech.ie
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