Leading Ground Handling Company in KSA (Public Sector)

Service Portfolio

• IT Business Consultancy
• DC Transformation and Consolidation
• Application Landscape Transformation

Strategy/Initiative

The customer engaged AVIANET for the following services:

• Complete IT Infrastructure Assessment
• DC Transformation and Future DC Roadmap
• Business Continuity and DR Roadmap
• Network Security Assessments
• Complete Technology Assessment and Upgrade Roadmap

Business Problem

The customer manages all international and domestic airports and flights across 20+ airport facilities in the country and uses a large number of applications and services to support their business. The key challenges were:

• Application Consolidation: How to consolidate their existing application landscape into a stronger and more consolidated DC environment.
• Business Continuity and DR: Absence of a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategy.
• System Upgrades: Need to overhaul and upgrade old systems to completely new platforms.
• Data Center Facility: Lack of a single DC facility to consolidate all applications and services.
• Network Security: Missing network security policies, pose a huge risk for internal and external data theft threats.

AVIANET Solution

AVIANET’s Consultancy and Security Engagement included an in-depth and rigorous review of the following:

• Current State Assessment: Comprehensive review of the entire infrastructure, data centre, applications, and services.
• Transition State Analysis and Design: Detailed analysis and design for the future state.
• Business Case: Development of a robust business case.
• Sizing of Hosted Platform: Determination of appropriate platform sizing and Business Continuity Plan.
• Critical Event Management: Transformation and consolidation of the main DC and setup of an advanced DR site.

Business Outcome

The project duration was 12 months, culminating in the delivery of the following artefacts:

• Current State Report: Detailed assessment of the current IT landscape.
• DC Transformation Roadmap: Comprehensive plan for data center transformation and technology upgrade.
• Cloud Readiness Assessment: Evaluation of the organisation’s preparedness for cloud adoption.
• Business Continuity Plan: Development of a Business Continuity Plan and establishment of a new DR site.
• Security Implementations: Strong security measures are implemented across the entire IT infrastructure.

Competition We Beat

• Customer DIY/status quo

Follow-On Engagements

Provided a roadmap for an upgraded DC model and cloud roadmap that can scale to meet the core business demand, allowing the redeployment of IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives.