Customers: Sheremetyevo Airport (MASh)
Contractors: Comparex Product: Software Asset Management (SAM)Project date: 2014/12 - 2015/02
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On April 1, 2015 the Comparex company announced completion of project implementation on management of licenses of Oracle at Sheremetyevo Airport.
Project Tasks
For ensuring effective work of the airport, IT technology are integrated into all stages of production processes. Sheremetyevo observes the quality standards and aims at ensuring the maximum comfort of passengers. Therefore special requirements regarding fault tolerance and round-the-clock operation of IT systems are imposed to work of IT infrastructure of the airport at any possible loadings.
One of indicators of smooth operation of IT systems - license purity of the used program assets. Sheremetyevo uses the specialized systems for automation of activity of the company on the basis of technologies of Oracle. One of such systems - the production Synchrony database.
For understanding of current situation and development of strategy of further use of technologies of Oracle, expense optimization on software and technical support without decline in quality of the provided service, the task - to build process of effective management of program IT assets is set for IT department.
Sheremetyevo Airport, 2013
"In the last several years the airport developed in high gear, infrastructure of the airport considerably extended, new IT solutions are implemented, there is a development of the existing systems. Within development of infrastructure of the enterprise requirements to effective management of IT assets increase, the detailed analysis and costs planning on this asset type are necessary, - Igor Nikolaevich Khokhlov, the deputy CEO for information technologies of JSC MASh told. – Monitoring and asset management on a large infrastructure facility is a difficult and complex task and requires not only settings of the automated control and management of IT assets, but also interpretation, correct in terms of difficult rules of licensing of different solution providers, of the obtained information. The methodology of effective use of software based on our real business needs is also necessary".
Project Progress
Project works by assessment, optimization and creation of a management system for program assets of Oracle at Sheremetyevo Airport are executed by consultants of Comparex. Team of experts in the field of rules of licensing of Oracle and knowledge asset management of Comparexrealizovala the project within two months.
Specialists of Comparex carried out inventory and the analysis of the current infrastructure and the available rights to software of Oracle.
"During the project it was impossible to break work of the business and critical systems of the airport. For this purpose we made testing of specialized scripts in infrastructure of the customer and only after approval from IT specialists of Sheremetyevo scripts were started on productive infrastructure", - Mikhail Starikov, the head SAM in Comparex company noted.
Project Results
The implemented project made transparent management of program assets of Oracle, allowed to calculate most precisely the planned costs and to qualitatively increase the level of requests for financing of IT infrastructure, to acquisition of new products, technical support, updates.