Case Studies

E-Commerce-Rebranding (Web 3.0) Deployed: Significantly Increases Web Sales and Conversions and Improves Branding/Company Identity

Sonos is a fast growing company that makes wireless high fidelity home music systems and sells them in stores, to channel providers, and direct through their global Web site. Sonos sought to increase its global presence and revenues through rebranding of its products and a complete redesign of the Web site, as well as a renovation of the infrastructure supporting the site.

The Challenges

IPI brings Mobile Device Management to Public Cloud

The Challenge

When the new CIO took over at Prophet LLC, he intuitively knew he had significant issues with his infrastructure and operations.  He turned to IPI to help him identify those issues and build a road map on how to alleviate them.

Factor TG Eliminates Bottlenecks and Cuts IT Operating Costs 50% by Migrating to Cloud

Infrastructure as a Service Model Meets Intense On-Demand Needs and Mitigates Risk from Multiple Points of Failure. “Building out the capacity we needed with conventional data centers would have cost at least three times what we’re now spending, and still wouldn’t give us the flexibility to scale up on demand.” Susan Weber, VP of Technology

Cloud Computing: IT Operating Costs Cut 50% for advertising analytics company.

Mobile Devices Connectivity to Enterprise Network Applications Enabled

Mobility: Connectivity from professionals' iPads and iPhones to company's network applications made possible in record time. "This was a huge win for IT and our business community to gain secure access to their applications from their iPads." Senior Director of IT

Mobility: Connectivity from professionals' iPads and iPhones to company's network applications made possible in record time.

Aggressive Growth Achieved and Revenue Opportunities Realized from Strategic Assessment and IT Roadmap

IPI recommended the development of a detailed and strategic roadmap to create an easier transition for incorporating acquisitions into their existing IT infrastructure and IPI provided the roadmap to do this, which was successfully implemented by the client.

Systems Integration: Healthcare products provider achieves aggressive growth as well as recognize revenue opportunities that previously were in jeopardy.

Denial of Service Attack Leads to Security Solution: Implementing Access Control

IPI project management worked with Lam IT management to obtain user buy-in and orchestrate a smooth solution to deployment. Since solution implementation, Lam has experienced no denials of service or unplanned downtime due to malicious or inadvertent intrusions.

Background

  • Lam Research (founding member of CapOne Source Alliance) is recognized as a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
  • Historically, Lam’s “trusted” network permitted access to a variety of users including, Lam employees, business partners, and guests.

Bill Audit Enables Lam Research to Realize Huge Savings and Credits

Results: Developed claims and secured refunds and credits in the amount of $3,437,544. Achieved savings of $6,486,949 over a one year period from the bill audit. The total savings above include approximately a 50% per month cost savings for cell phones and 65% per month cost savings for pagers. Received a total credit of $100,000 on cell phones and pagers.

Background

  • Lam Research is recognized as a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment to the worldwide semiconductor industry, whose corporate offices are located in Fremont, CA.
  • When we started working with Lam in 1999, they lacked an in-house inventory database to reconcile against the provider’s invoice billing.

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan Developed and Tested for a $10 Billion Corporation

The biggest victory was that an actual disaster occurred and the Disaster Recovery site on the East Coast was deployed successfully. Because of the amount of planning that was done and the work completed in collaboration with the client, the client’s business operations did not suffer an extended period of interruption and the disaster did not significantly impact their revenues (which could have been significant for a $10 billion company).

Background

An industry leader in IT distributions and business process outsourcing (BPO) services was experiencing tremendous growth, growing from a $4 billion corporation to a $10 billion corporation in a seven-year period.

A new contract from a large international partner required our client to have a Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in place for their Data Centers, which were located in eastern Canada, the East Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leading Software Provider Realizes Millions from Audit

■The total savings, refunds, and credits represented a 35% reduction in expenses as a result of our efforts. ■The client now has an accurate inventory of all telecom expenses and processes to metter manage the billing.

Background

  • A leading provider of financial software and Web-based services for consumers, small businesses and accounting professionals has grown exponentially over the last few years as a result of increased sales of existing products and through mergers and acquisitions.
  • While the client was reviewing some of their bills on an on-going basis, most of the telecom services bills were being processed for payment by their Accounts Payables department without approval or rate verification processes. This made it difficult to forecast a telecom budget for many if the client’s IT organizations and left them vulnerable to billing over-charges and paying for services which are not at contract rates or no longer needed.

Network Assessment and Engineering Implementation Increased Security, Availability and Reliability Globally

The IPI team, at the conclusion of the assessment, provided a roadmap to implement all of the recommendations that IPI made. The delivery of the recommendations was led by the outsourced IPI Enterprise Architect.

Background

A leading provider in the US and 100 other countries of healthcare products depended upon its global network for its processes from booking to shipping orders, but was experiencing many interruptions with accessing enterprise applications, which were causing them to lose revenues.