Case Studies
Fortune 500 Companies- Infrastructure Management Services Remote Service Desk, Remote Management/Monitoring, Centralize Application Deployment and Patch Implementation.
Tech Field helps leading Fortune 500 Companies major set up a systems management server, and centralize IT infrastructure management and application maintenance and support.
The Client One of the largest fortune 500 organizations in USA, the client’s 5,000 agents and 52,000 employees.
The Challenge
The client’s business, spread across several geographically regions, grew at a tremendous pace. As the business grew, the client accumulated a huge IT infrastructure including a large user base of over 80,000 desktops, an equally large agent network, and more than 2,00 applications running on as many servers. Managing these applications and installing patches on the workstations and servers proved to be a humongous task for the client’s internal IT team. Installing the Operating System image and the application to load Workstations/Servers was another challenge both in terms of resource requirements and cost. In fact, software installation, support, and maintenance accounted for a major chunk of its IT infrastructure maintenance cost.
Tech Field implemented centralized system for asset management, patch management, anti virus management, SMS (Systems Management Server) server. This all implemented in central location without choking the network bandwidth, and provide both onsite as well offshore maintenance and support.
The Solution
Tech Field experience in Managing IT Infrastructure for fortune 500 companies. Tech Field collaborated with the client’s existing IT team and providing uninterrupted and ongoing support to the client’s IT infrastructure. The scope of the engagement included providing second level Domain Controller Management, Server/Network Management, Patch Management, Anti virus Management, SMS support, monitoring SMS server performance, and event alerts, troubleshooting SMS site server incidents, managing and troubleshooting the software distribution process and the load process, and resolving issues raised by business partners via help desk tickets.
Tech Field adopted ITIL practices for Service Management and put in place a centralized L1/L2 support unit to handle reactive and proactive incident management as well as service calls. Tech Field leveraged its expertise to not only install applications and implement patches for various client projects but also monitor and support the same.
The highly trained and experienced team from Tech Field worked with the client’s IT infrastructure management to support the IT Infrastructure Management. We are running remote service desk and monitoring from Tech Field NOCs.
The Benefits
Tech Field’s solution helped the client automate the process of installation and patch application. This eliminated the need to visit individual workstations to perform management functions such as desktop hardware and software inventory and asset management, software distribution and updates, and patch management. As a result the client was able to optimize its existing resources and reduce labor costs considerably.