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A nationwide magazine wholesaler, part of a large UK retail chain

Retail/distribution

This magazine wholesaler had relationships with many suppliers and customers but believed it was not making best use of the important data it was collecting. The current technology was mainframe based and expensive to maintain with costly contract renewals in the medium term

The business wanted to reduce ongoing IT costs and move to a PC based infrastructure

Put in place a new scalable architecture capable of growing with the business but also preserving current investments in the mainframe system

Demonstrate to the business by use of a prototype that the technology works

Creation of a comprehensive strategy understandable by the business executives so that investment funds could be released

Lead development team during construction of prototype system for internal demonstrations to win further funding

Cost savings of £150,00 in year one alone, rising to £1m over 5 years.