Johannesburg, 10 Sep 2014
Specialist projects and consulting company Advanced Projects and People (APP) has employed its expertise and skills base to migrate a 33 000 user base from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7 for a South African entity. All out-of-warranty desktops and laptops were renewed during the country-wide project.
APP, a level 1 BBEEE contributor, sourced and selected the best possible IT professionals for the project. In addition, in keeping with its mandate to enable transformation and skills growth, the company developed 200 young individuals during the course of this project, providing them with extensive training and knowledge.
The company also delivered on the requirement of "localisation" by ensuring that the teams deployed to complete the migrations are local to the province concerned.
The customer's management team set tight deadlines, requiring the bulk of the desktop estate to be migrated over a period of three months. APP met the project requirements and successfully delivered approximately 25 000 migrations over the stipulated three months - a significant achievement when considering the migrations took place in all nine provinces concurrently. The remainder were completed in the two months that followed.
In line with the National Development Plan, and in support of Enterprise Supplier Development (ESD), the customer's support for the development of smaller companies through its ESD initiative helped to materialise this opportunity. "The key to the success and sustainability of smaller businesses is for industry leaders to follow the same path," says Vinoden Govender, Chief Executive Officer of APP.
"APP has an extensive database of IT professionals that allows the company to scale rapidly for large IT projects, and tailor solutions to meet customer-specific and market requirements. Having worked with some of the biggest companies in South Africa, across multiple industries and verticals, the project was a natural fit for APP," says Govender.
"Our starting point is always to strategically match our intellectual capital to our clients' critical solution requirements, which ensures an immediate return on investment (ROI). The migration project proved the value of this approach, and we were comfortably able to meet the deadline while providing only the highest quality work."
In addition to skilled resources, APP provides specialist ICT project management and consultation, managed services, as well as network cabling, architecture and infrastructure solutions.
"Drawing on our large network of talent, we deploy top tier project managers, professional consultants, technical experts and industry specialists to speedily meet any project's requirements. We ensure a stable project environment with hand-selected team members contributing and functioning as a highly effective panel to address business needs. Our core competency and extensive experience in project management and consultation makes us your number one outsourced partner," Govender concludes.
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