Situation
Aggregion is the owner of the platform with the same name, which is a set of tools for licensing digital content,access managing to it, protecting copyright. In addition, the solution enables partners to distribute the content of copyright holders, combining it with any goods or services on online and offline sites. The structure of Aggregion includes three territorially distributed offices, employing more than fifty employees. At the end of 2015, the company sold more than 15 million licenses for educational content.
Aggregion is the executor of the joint project of the world producer and distributor of video products with Pearson (one of the largest suppliers of printed and digital educational products). Under the terms of the action, users who purchase books to learn English Pearson, get access to the animated series for six months. Video content is available for download in the free A-Store Reader application. Under the terms of cooperation, Aggregion should to provide convenient and fast access to users' files, and rights holders to the media store, for which the company's specialists decided to lease additional cloud capacities. As an IT partner, Noventiq was selected, with extensive experience in cloud solutions.
Solution
After conducting a comparative analysis of various cloud storage and their evaluation, the customer's preference was given to Microsoft Azure Storage. This product is characterized by high availability, speed and fault tolerance. In addition, since the publisher and the world entertainment industry leader planned the development of joint interactive services, in particular video-streaming, Microsoft's product line was preferable: it completely covered the need for the necessary IT tools. And their integration with Azure Storage shortened the time for the development, implementation and launch of projects.
Noventiq specialists provided the customer with a cloud-based hosting based on Microsoft Azure. Initially, local testing of the solution was conducted with the assistance of Aggregion specialists within the limits of the granted number of licenses for video content. The test assessed the stability of the storage, the availability of certain types of content, the ability to download from different devices and with different parameters. After that, the cloud infrastructure was put into operation.
Results
"We provided the customer with access to the cloud infrastructure, which reduced the cost of storing content, provided security and increased its availability for distributors," -
Dinar Garipov,Noventiq Business Development Manager.
Thanks to the help of Noventiq specialists, we were able to create the cloud infrastructure and to provide users with access to digital content as quickly as possible . Simplified payment management and the ability to store virtually unlimited files allow to use the available IT resources as efficiently as possible. We plan to scale the solution depending on the type and amount of shares in Russia and abroad, and also to attract key rightholders to increase the efficiency of distribution and create new models of mutually beneficial cooperation.
"With IoT, the devices expose the local network, then security counts so that the user is not afraid to connect the machines. Our migration to Windows 10 added value when it came to more efficient graphics and too when talking about security. Furthermore, the 10-year warranty of the system given by Microsoft is the certainty of market longevity".
“The software assets inventory performed by Noventiq specialists has enabled us to determine the number of software licenses actually used, to assess the current license compliance and to get recommendations on optimization of our corporate IT infrastructure. In the future, every business unit will be able to purchase software solutions that meet its unique needs under MPSA. Information on all software purchases in the company will be available from the system administrator’s personal area”.
"We have received an IT infrastructure management tool that allows not only to control the state of IT services, but, in addition quickly makes necessary changes. It is very important for us to provide remote consulting on technical support requests within the shortest terms. Local mobile device management is another important product benefit: it simplifies maintenance using the tools built into device operating systems".
“ServiceNow platform development marks yet another step to formulating a service-based approach to address business objectives at our facilities and towards an efficient management of key processes at the company-wide scale”.
By combining the two cutting edge digital transformation solutions; Microsoft O365 and Cumuluspro’s Straatos BPM platform, offering it as a single solution from a single cloud platform, we immediately save cost by automating the entire process and reducing the storage space for the Engineering Company. In addition, digitising and indexing the personnel documents paved the way for future data analytics requirements for HR trends.
The possibilities are infinite, any data-driven or document-centric business processes can be rapidly created, deployed and managed on the same platform.
"Migrating the bulk of IT services into the cloud allowed preserving good working order of the infrastructure during the reorganization, ensuring interactions of the company's business units and functioning of the ERP system, and cutting its maintenance costs".
"Two factors contributed to the success of the project. First, deep involvement of business customers of this solution - the employees of the financial department. Second, a true expertise of colleagues from Noventiq in budgeting, which helped them communicate with the customer in the same language. Due to using the MCaaS model, the employees of the IT department can focus on specific business tasks without wasting time on administering the basic IT infrastructure".
We are excited with Noventiq’s quick success in the first phase of this project, and looking forward to the complete solution roll-out to the rest of the departments and subsidiaries.