Success Story:
Intelligent Planning Effects the Bottom Line
Problem:
For a company who’s every dollar of revenue depends upon their ability to process applications, a system failure is serious business. In desperate need of a central system upgrade, the top player in Application Selection Services and Tenant Screening was facing daily outages and hardware failures with their peak season right around the corner. To make matters worse, demand was predicted not only to seasonally spike, but never drop back down due to better than expected results from a national marketing campaign.
Action:
Andrew realized that immediate optimizations were needed to squeeze one last season out of the existing systems. Then new hardware, updated software, a better network design and a comprehensive data warehousing plan would need to be designed, tested and put in place in less than 8 months.
Result:
The daily outages were stopped and the first peak season was weathered without incident. Andrew’s efforts in designing and managing the implementation of a sweeping critical system migration from the legacy systems to a superior computing platform resulted in a 600% increase in capacity without a single minute of downtime. He saved the firm in excess of $200,000 over outside proposals presented by several large consulting firms, and almost doubled the overall capacity offered by their solutions. Ensuring that each new infrastructure component had a clear position in the next generation product rollout that was scheduled for the following year further maximized ROI by capitalizing the entire expenditure over a greater period of time.
