Going beyond technology.
Industry-specific expertise in financial services

Success Story: Financial Services

Overview:

The financial services organisation covered by this case study, hereby referred to as ‘the organisation’, are a London based investment management firm. In 2019, their high level of growth provided the opportunity to separate from their parent company, including their joint IT network. The organisation’s leadership team wanted to improve cybersecurity, employee mobility and productivity. Maintaining regulatory compliance was essential.

Industry

Financial Services

IT users

125+

Services

IT Security, Compliance, Mobility, and increased Productivity

Challenge:

The organisation’s leadership team recognised dependency on the parent company’s IT systems as restrictive to their own growth plans. They understood separating an organisation from a parent entity required specific knowledge and experience, so they appointed ADM Computing’s Professional Services team.

ADM Computing developed a project plan so the organisation could separate their infrastructure from the parent company. Minimising disruption was essential to maintain business continuity and ensure the organisation’s live trading environment remained fully operational. The result gave the organisation its own resilient and improved IT systems.

Phase 1 – Separating away from the parent company’s Microsoft 365 tenancy.
Phase 2 – Making the organisation operational as a completely cloud -based entity.
Phase 3 – Splitting out the two organisations on-premises infrastructure.

Solution:

During Phase 1, ADM Computing’s Professional Services team analysed the file environment. ADM completed test migrations to identify data that was at risk of being corrupted or lost. Having confirmed whether any of the data at risk was essential for business operation, ADM were able to isolate the data and safely migrate it across in controlled stages, ensuring no loss of service during the project.

Phase 2, the organisation moved to a fully cloud-hosted environment. This was achieved by the implementation of the SQL PaaS (platform as a service) instance in Microsoft Azure, and Office-365. This minimised the need for extra hardware whilst enabling employees to be more productive.

Phase 3 was the completion of the organisation’s journey to becoming an independent entity using cloud computing and Microsoft 365. Additional enhancements included a new Local Area Network with Wi-Fi capabilities, allowing independent control over their on-site configuration and improved cybersecurity protection.

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Creative Director

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Matt P.

IT Manager

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Nick C.

Systems Manager

We have used ADM Computing for over 20 years, their professional and supportive service has never faltered – they remain our go to IT Support partner.

John R.

IT Manager

My company have been partnered with ADM for nearly two years and they have provided us with efficient, professional and responsive service throughout. From the Directors to the Account Managers to the Engineers, everyone is personable and gets to know who you and your company are. I would highly recommend using ADM as your IT support partner.

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Practice Manager

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Pete H.

Systems Manager

The ADM Team takes care of their clients and presents solutions to problems that they may not even know are affecting their business.

We have been partnered with ADM for nearly two years now and are very satisfied with the performance of their support team who often go the extra mile, especially when things go wrong!

Keep up the great service and we look forward to growing our business with a partner that we can trust.

Atlas Property

I have been working with ADM Computing for the past 2 years, and I could not be more happier with their professionalist and commitment. They are a truly Partner and an extension of your internal IT Team.

Cilene G.

Head of Information Technology

Even when we have thrown a few curveballs into the mix, ADM Computing have the answers that work.

Paul B.

Commercial Director

I wanted to send a note to let you know that the calm and determined deployment of the tenancy migration to Cloud and security implementation from Andy and Rob has been commendable. To move and secure a live trading environment with multiple inbound data feeds and the volume of data without a critical point of failure is, to a layperson, quite a feat.

Sara M.

Chief of Staff

Where do I begin?

The biggest change has been our connection with the outside world and the improved layers of security that go with that.

What we have today is a world away from 2015. Giving staff and children the ability to access the internet through wifi and hard wire has changed our teaching and learning beyond recognition. To then bring in Office 365 to access material from the cloud has moved this even further forward and it is simply fantastic to see children accessing a piece of work they started on one computer from anywhere they choose.

Sebastian R.

Headteacher/Principal

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Going beyond technology. Industry-specific expertise in financial services

Success Story: Financial Services

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Going beyond technology.
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