| Customers: Autospecial center Contractors: Softline Product: Software Asset Management (SAM)Project date: 2017/06 - 2017/11
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On February 6, 2018 it became known that the Softline company helped autoretailer "Avtospetscentre" to define advantages of transition to cloud computing taking into account the long-term development strategy. According to forecasts of specialists, use of cloud solutions will allow the customer to save a quarter of the IT budget.
The Avtospetscentre group needed to prolong the agreement of Enterprise Agreement taking into account structural changes, plans for hardware upgrade and business challenges. Therefore its management made the decision on start of the SAM project. The IT partner selected Softline which specialists have necessary competences on project implementation of Software Asset Management.
Experts of Softline carried out the overview of program assets in all network "Avtospetscentre" where 1.5 thousand PCs and 200 servers. As the customer has a geographically distributed IT infrastructure, it was recommended to it to consider cloud solutions based on the Azure platform. Them it is possible to administer on a centralized basis, having cut down maintenance expenses of IT and to regulate consumption of cloud capacities depending on rates of business development, saving on acquisition of the equipment. For security and safety of commercial data by transfer to their external users experts of Softline recommended Enterprise Mobility + to Security there is a cloud solution suitable for different platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Windows Phone, Android and iOS. For protection of corporate mail against spam and observance the politician of message exchange, to the customer proposed the solution Exchange Online Protection which works both in the isolated scenario, and in the hybrid environment.
At the overview of a server framework Avtospetscentre the command of Softline drew the attention of the customer to creation of failover clusters for performance improvement of the equipment. Specialists of Softline defined exact quantity of test and production servers. In an effect it will help to plan effectively the IT budget as it is necessary to license only production.
It was recommended to customer to standardize jobs of users, having eliminated version control of office applications. As an alternative Avtospetscentre group the cloud packet of Microsoft Office 365 was provided to local solutions.
 | "We showed to the customer as using SAM to control the current and future expenses on maintenance of IT infrastructure and to receive the maximum return from use of the available software. According to our forecasts, transition to cloud office solutions in five-year perspective will allow to save 25% of the IT budget". |  |
| | "Existence of effective strategy of management of program assets – guarantee of competitiveness in such dynamically changing industry as retail. We defined perspectives of transition to cloud capacities and further we will be able to plan more flexibly IT infrastructure maintenance costs". Mikhail Perov, head of department of user support of Avtospetscentre group | |
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