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| Olympus Optical Co.
(UK) Limited |
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Client overview
Olympus Optical Co (UK) Limited was formed in 1975 and is the premier
supplier of cameras, digital cameras, voice recorders, microscopes
and blood analysers. Olympus has been a client of Nixe since 1996.
Nixe have supplied a range of services to
Olympus including network infrastructure design and build, internet
and email services and security and software development.
Networks
Olympus was suffering from a network
unable to cope with the demands of a growing and successful business
and the introduction of cutting edge technology. The network was
both slow and incompatible with the company's plans for expansion.
Olympus used Nixe to plan and implement an upgrade to the enterprise
wide network to ethernet to support 120 users. Nixe also arrange
for the domestic UK branches to be connected to the company's headquarters
in London. As part of this upgrade, Nixe also introduced a standard
operating system across the company and devised a standard build
for all machines within the company.
Internet and email
In 1997 Olympus had a rudimentary connection to the Internet via
modems. This resulted in high cost, slow speed and restricted access
to the Internet for employees and presented a poor external corporate
image to customers and clients.
As a result of the implementation of an updated network, Nixe was
able to connect every employee to the Internet and email, reduce
costs, improve speed and security.
Software development
Building on this new network topology, Nixe were able to develop
new bespoke software to integrate the multiple platforms existing
within Olympus. This was developed in Visual Basic, integrating
the stability of DB2 running on AS/400 with the user friendly interfaces
running on Windows workstations. This demonstrates Nixe's policy
of supplier independence and integrating the best available technologies
to supply the optimum solution to a business problem.
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| Unilever |
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Client overview
Unilever is a global company providing washing powder, shampoo and
toothpaste, teas, ice cream, oils and spreads for consumers all
over the world.
With the approach of the Year 2000, Unilever Argentina required
an audit of their 60 largest customers with regards their preparedness
for the new millennium. Nixe was asked to prepare an audit report
of these customers with recommendations of what they had to achieve
to become Y2K compliant. The report also contained details about
how their customers preparedness would impact Unilever in Argentina.
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| Quickfood |
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Client overview
Quickfood was established in Argentina in 1960. It is the premier
supplier of meat and it's by-products for both the domestic and
international markets.
As a result of a recommendation, Nixe was invited to become the
outsource partner for the Quickfood IT department. This has resulted
in Nixe undertaking the following for Quickfood:
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- administration of application and data servers
- administration of the corporate email services
- software development
- implementation of third party software
- IT support and help desk
- project management
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| Cabelma |
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Client overview
Cabelma is a manufacturer of injection moulded articles for a wide
cross section of industries.
Cabelma wished to outsource their IT department. The contract was
awarded to Nixe. We now provide the following services to Cabelma:
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- development of strategic applications
- network design and implementation
- administration of data and application servers
- installation and maintenance of operating systems including
the implementation of upgrades
- provision of electronic services such as email
- office automation
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| H E Woolley Ltd |
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Client overview
H E Woolley LTD, based in the North East
of England, has supplied and supported its many customers in Fire
Protection products for more than 35 years.
H E Woolley had a number of strategic IT
issues that needed to be addressed. These included the need for
corporate file and print servers, organisation wide email, access
to the Internet and a resilient and reliable disaster recovery plan.
In response, Nixe provided the following:
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- for file and print servers, a Linux based solution was implemented
using Samba
to emulate Microsoft Windows services. Using Linux provides an
affordable and reliable solution that allows future scalability
- for access to the Internet, an 'on demand' connection was developed
with security provided by a packet filter firewall
- across the organisation, an email solution was implemented and
made available to all employees. This was developed using industry
standard technology freeing H E Woolley from being dependent on
a proprietary software supplier
- for disaster recovery, Nixe developed a backup plan using non
proprietary software. In the unlikely event of a problem, H E
Woolley will be able to employ any organisation to provide the
recovery. Nixe aims always to provide supplier and software independent
solutions
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| Eskabe |
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Client overview
In 1950, Eskabe was established in Argentina
with a variety of innovative solutions for home heating, products
that in a short time became the preference of thousands users establishing
Eskabe as a leading brand.
To enable Eskabe to reach its business
goals, a decision was made to outsource the IT department. Nixe
was invited to administer the Eskabe IT department including undertaking
the following:
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- implementation of all systems including accounting and sales
applications
- development and implementation of the order processing systems
- enterprise resource planning
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| Witcel SA |
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Client overview
Witcel SA is a fine papers mill located near Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Founded in 1961, they produce fine, specialty packaging
and security papers with an annual production of 20000 tn.
Nixe provides round the clock specialist
IT support to the Witcel IT department including operating system
and database support, system upgrades and tuning.
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