Case Studies
Southern Rural Water outsources disaster recovery
With the threat of a natural disaster impacting its operations, Southern Rural Water (SRW) looked to a fully managed disaster recovery service to minimise risk to its business, and protect the organisation’s ability to operate in the face of several disasters.
[ + ]Medical Research Institute goes for growth with new IP telephony system
The Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (POWMRI) has selected a new IP communications system that will result in significant cost savings and offer a host of unified communications (UC) features for the rapidly expanding Institute.
[ + ]Clever communications aids outback business
“To pay wages and to deal with emails we used to have to drive 500 km to Coober Pedy to sit in a little internet cafe at the Ampol station,” Gayle recalled.
[ + ]Property developer builds security infrastructure
Brookfield Multiplex has standardised on Websense web security software and cloud-based email security services to provide safe and secure internet and email access for its 2000-strong workforce.
[ + ]Luther College implements a UC system
Luther College is a private senior school in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs which prides itself on providing high-quality education to more than 1000 students.
[ + ]First-class system for retailer pays for itself
The solution to these issues was to have their IT support provider Geforce Technologies install the NetAssure managed network service. The mail sanitisation functions of NetAssure proved an effective answer to the spam email issue, immediately freeing up two hours a day of a senior manager’s time.
[ + ]WAN optimisation improves data network traffic
“A lot of our sites are in extremely remote locations where getting access to a suitable WAN connection is either not possible or extremely expensive,” he explains. “It’s simply not practical to add bandwidth to these remote sites, which is why we started looking at WAN optimisation.”
[ + ]Business intelligence boosts ambulance operations
St John Ambulance Australia’s National Business Centre (NBC) has chosen QlikView business intelligence software, which will bring additional operational and financial focus to the management of its business.
[ + ]Network upgrade for charity provides better service
The St Vincent de Paul Society has upgraded its WAN infrastructure to improve support to its members in their service of people in need. The society has used national IP service provider Via IP to upgrade the data network.
[ + ]Cost of creating legal documents reduced
Intelledox’s software-as-a-service system for creating documents has been implemented by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) to automate the creation of low-cost legal contract templates as part of AIIA.biz, a new member portal to provide online business support to members.
[ + ]Gizmo stays in contact
Sydney-based Gizmo, a provider of technical support for a wide range of computer-related technologies, has successfully migrated to a fully fault-tolerant Mitel unified communications solution to support the company’s rapid growth and improve the efficiency of its 10 Australian offices and large field services workforce.
[ + ]Salmat deploys Web 2.0 security protection
Salmat, a communications specialist company that engages consumers through one-to-one communications, has deployed the Websense Web Security Gateway to provide it with real-time security protection from dynamic Web 2.0 threats.
[ + ]Telstra’s wireline transformation
Telstra has transformed its core infrastructure onto a single internet protocol (IP) backbone to carry voice, video and data traffic, improve network efficiency and reduce costs.
[ + ]WAN optimisation cuts satellite costs
Norfolk Island is located in the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It covers just over 34 square kilometres and was settled in 1856 by descendents of the Bounty mutineers who moved there from Pitcairn Island
[ + ]Synergy finds synergy cutting printing costs
Western Australian electricity retailer Synergy was established in 2006 when Western Power was disaggregated into separate electricity generation, electricity transmission and electricity retail organisations. While there is a contestable market for large electricity users, Synergy has an effective monopoly over electricity retail to small and medium enterprises and domestic users in South-West Western Australia.
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