The Situation
A manufacturing company with 125 employees and four sites across the United States had a technology environment consisting of a small local area network for file and print sharing. The rest of their technology needs were outsourced to another company. The services provided through the outsourcing arrangement included an enterprise accounting system, an email system, a wide area network that connected their sites and provided Internet access, and the requisite support of these services. Executive management of the manufacturing company decided to bring all their technology resources in-house. Due to the structure of their outsourcing agreement, the new environment had to be operational within three months.

The InnerWest TekPartners Solution
To accomplish this initiative the company engaged InnerWest TekPartners to assist in the selection and implementation of a new enterprise accounting system, to design and build a new local and wide area network, to implement a new email system, and to provide the requisite support infrastructure for the new environment. Within the designated delivery window AND under the manufacturing company's budgeted amount, the following was accomplished:

• Selection and implementation of a MAS 200/SQL accounting system.
  
• Migration of data from their legacy system to a new Microsoft SQL Database.
  
• Design, build, and migration to a new Windows local area network.
  
• Design, build, and migration to new Cisco/ Watchguard VPN wide area network connecting sites and providing internet access.
  
• Design, build, and migration to a new Microsoft Exchange email system.
  
• Coordination of support providers for applications and infrastructure.