Case Study: Bromsgrove District Council

Challenge

• As part of central government’s local authority modernisation agenda, Bromsgrove District Council required a radical upgrade its ICT infrastructure
• Requirement - a solid foundation for future business transformation

Solution

• Complete review of existing infrastructure
• Replacement and consolidation of ageing servers
• New Cisco network to support the installation of IP telephony system
• Capacity for wireless networking
• State-of-the-art disaster recovery and business continuity procedures

Benefits

• Bromsgrove DC can now demonstrate exceptionally high levels of security and resilience across all systems.
• Use of the wireless network and unified communications provides business agility
• The Council have since been able to undertake the adoption of Prince2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments), the de facto standard for project management used extensively in the public sector.
• Bromsgrove DC are now in an excellent position to move on to the next stage of electronic service delivery
• Scope for future innovation

Partners

Cisco and Microsoft

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