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Tegrant Corporation Separates from Parent Company, Focuses on Business Growth, and Accelerates Speed to Market. Leveraging Worknet's consulting expertise and fully-managed IT infrastructure, Tegrant is poised to meet its growth objectives. |
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“We specialize in plastics and packaging. Worrying about our IT infrastructure takes away focus from our business operations. We reviewed other providers, but Worknet offered the flexibility and technical skills we needed, along with a reliable data center infrastructure. Most importantly, they shared our sense of urgency to help us get where we needed to go.” |
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| -Ed Short, Director of Business Process Development & Information Technology |
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| THE CHALLENGE | Establish a separate computing environment within a short time frame, provide a new computing environment capable of expanding to meet future growth objectives, and minimize risk of business disruption during transitional process |
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| THE SOLUTION | Engage Worknet to design, build, and manage a new, highly reliable, scalable computing environment while adhering to aggressive transition deadlines |
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| THE STORY | Tegrant Corporation is the premier manufacturer of a variety of highly engineered packaging solutions and energy efficient building products. Composed of three strategic business units, Tegrant operates over thirty manufacturing, design, and testing facilities across North America. A corporate buyout created the need for Tegrant to separate from its former parent company’s systems and establish its own computing environment within a short time frame.
Engineering a network of this magnitude, migrating mission-critical applications and existing data, and minimizing the risk of business interruption presented a formidable task for Tegrant’s limited IT staff. Also, given the capital, skill, and elapsed time required, Tegrant decided that IT hosting was not its core competency and quickly ruled out the possibility of building and managing its own data center. As a result, Tegrant’s management decided to engage a professional IT services firm with networking and data center operations expertise to design, host, and manage the new computing environment.
A Solid Platform for Business Growth with Significant Savings
Using Worknet’s technical expertise and flexible approach, a rapid transition plan was formulated to install their Wide Area Network (WAN) and migrate mission-critical applications including email, followed by a standard corporate-wide ERP system. While speed was of great importance, a flawless and seamless migration to a new computing environment were paramount. Tegrant required an infrastructure that would allow them to remotely manage their thirty locations, and add additional locations.
Utilizing Worknet’s reliable data center infrastructure to manage and monitor the new computing environment, Tegrant saved the time and capital required to build out its own data center. In addition, Tegrant has significantly lowered their IT costs each month, and they are experiencing a higher level of service.
Accelerating Speed to Market
In the highly competitive industry, it’s all about staying ahead of the competition. There is not only domestic competition but competition from overseas as well, and speed to market is critical. Tegrant's packaging units build many packaging prototypes per year and the ability to change packaging very rapidly is critical.
“We have a limited budget to spend on IT, and we need our IT spending to focus on business development and the creation of tools, which build real value for our business and increase our competitiveness in the marketplace. The faster we get packaging to our customers, the faster our customer’s products go on the store shelves,” said Ed Short, Director of Business Process Development & Information Technology. |
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