| Active Directory
Replication & Data Collaboration & VPN |
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| The Client |
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| International Environmental
Services Company |
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| The Need |
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| The Client provides an
array of high quality environmental monitoring,
analysis and technical consultancy
services to customers globally. The Company employs
over 400 people from a network of branch facilities
headquartered in the US. |
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| A number of the Client’s
offices served a undersized user base and had
limited user requirements for
sharing and accessing customer and product data.
As part of the Windows 2003 migration project
strategy, new requirements were identified and
a business and technical approach and strategy
developed to enhance the system capabilities
at these local offices. |
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| The Challenge |
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| The Client’s critical
business challenge were to provide all field
locations the capability to replicate the
Microsoft Active Directory, provide data access
to and from other client sites, replicate Lotus
Notes databases and allow specific users web access.
Information Security was also a key requirement
for each Company site given their connection to the Internet,
and also to the data being transmitted across
it. |
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| The Solution |
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| The Star Knowledge Technical
Team helped the Client implement and deploy the
business applications within the Windows 2003 Migration Project in
order to minimize disruption at each location. |
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| Key project activities included : |
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Business
broadband ADSL installation and configuration
at designated satellite offices and head
office. |
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Dial-on-demand routing solution to allow
Active Directory and Lotus Notes replication. |
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Routing to and
from corporate WAN in order to allow
sharing of data. |
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Secure firewall
implementation at each Internet boundary. |
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Secure and controllable
method of granting Internet access to
satellite site users. |
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| Benefits |
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| The key benefits realized as a result of the successful project include : |
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Improved
productivity at each of the client’s
field locations. |
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Improved morale of employees as they
increased their responsibility and
potential for advancement. |
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Improved information
security for the enterprise and individual
branches. |
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