The Careys Group

Data and email system moved entirely to a private Cloud and Office 365 based solution with 0% disruption to the business.

The Careys Group

Data and email system moved entirely to a private Cloud and Office 365 based solution with 0% disruption to the business.

About The Careys Group

The Carey Group, established in 1969, is a leading multidisciplined construction and resource recovery group, operating across the UK and Ireland. Careys deliver innovative, safe and sustainable solutions to the most complex challenges.

They are unique within the construction industry as they have in-house specialist capabilities in asbestos, demolition, civil engineering, dry lining, house building and resource recovery. Their combined service capabilities means they can deliver consolidated programmes with reduced project costs, consistency and effective management of construction risks.

Solution

To fulfil The Carey Group's requirements, Exponential-e was tasked to move their data across to a platform that used a combination of our private, secure Cloud platform and Microsoft Office 365. We were able complete the project in just 3 months with zero downtime during the transition period.

Our team of Professional services managers completed the transition from start to finish, ensuring that everything went smoothly and impressing the Carey Group with their high levels of support and competence.

The fact that Exponential-e already supplied their 100GigE low latency WAN solution to Careys meant that they had the confidence in us to design and implement a robust technical solution that was aligned to their IT strategies.

Our solution was underpinned by our resilient Network - ensuring Carey's had the best base to launch their Cloud & email platform.

By using an outsourced model managed by Exponential-e, Carey's made cost efficiencies as they eliminated the time internal IT staff traditionally spent managing their email systems.

The change from a capital expenditure to operating expenditure model has allowed Carey's to directly apportion a predictable monthly cost to the service.

Equally with the scalability of the solution, the cost of operations has decreased and the overall system is far more cost effective.

One of the primary benefits of the implementation of this solution is that it is cost effective and fits with the company's OPEX model.

The company has seen a reduction in the time their IT department needs to spend in managing their email system. Through the combination of our ongoing support and the use of Office 365, their email system will be fully managed and any patches or updates applied.
Inbox storage capacity increased across the company.
Transfer of user data and system implementation, was completed without any system downtime or disruption to the business, and took only 3 months.
The storage capacity of their email system was increased through use of this new solution, which was a benefit for all employees within the company.

Challenges

Faced with ageing internal email infrastructure that they were unable to fully manage and support, the Carey Group looked to find a solution that would allow them to move their data to a private Cloud platform whilst also utilising Microsoft Office 365. By outsourcing this service to Exponential-e they were able to ensure that they had a secure and resilient solution that was scalable and fully met their business needs.

The Carey Group's primary challenge was how to move their email data for their 1000+ users across to the new platform whilst ensuring the implementation was completed swiftly and smoothly to avoid business disruption, yet maintaining data integrity.

With their existing WAN provided by Exponential-e they looked to us to provide the professional services to make both a successful data transition and also ensure ongoing support for the day to-day management of the solution.

Solution benefits

Implementation of Office 365 and a secure, private Cloud solution throughout the company.
Scalable solution that is fully managed externally, allowing the IT department to focus their efforts elsewhere.
Inbox storage capacity increased across the company.
Integration with SharePoint and further Microsoft products now a possibility.
The CAPEX / OPEX benefits of a Cloud solution make operations cheaper.
0% downtime for the business during implementation allowed Carey's to continue operating without disruption.
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Exponential-e offered us a complete WAN solution that was technically superior to anything else we looked at, backed up by plain speaking people who have made the transition from a complicated in-house solution far easier than we ever envisaged.”

Matt Coniam - Head of ICT, Carey Group PLC