Central Weighing
The Company
Central Weighing (CW) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of vehicle weighing systems for law enforcement and fleet management applications and has won the DTI SMART award for innovation.
"Our new system will enable us to grow the business in the future, but, more than that, we now have an IT partner we trust, who is passionate about business IT and where its deployment can add real commercial value to a business."Mark Wilcox, Central Weighing
Key Challenges
- To overcome a variety of platform integration concerns and ensure that all security and anti-virus systems worked efficiently across all operating systems.
- To improve the overall stability of its then unsupported, bespoke database system and implement a solution that allowed immediate and future expansion.
- To allow remote access to its servers and infrastructure.
- To remove their Novell solution and replace it with a solution that would permit the provision of centralised management and remote technical support abilities.
- The company was keen to spread the burden of its investment with a competitive finance package.
The Solution
Icomm helped Central Weighing secure the necessary leasing arrangements allowing the company to spread the cost of the upgrade over an extended time frame.
Icomm added all required physical cabling infrastructure and deployed an expert team to repair, upgrade and fully test the database. The database was split to improve speed, stability and plan for future expansion.
Icomm then replaced the company's two ageing servers with a state of the art Hewlett Packard ML370 Raid 5 server running Microsoft’s Small Business Server.
With the new server in place, the Icomm team migrated Central Weighing from Novell to Microsoft® Windows Server, providing immediate performance improvements.
Critically, the new application integrated with all desktop machines, running a variety of Windows platforms.
Icomm introduced ADSL, established central back-up and a centrally managed Symantec Anti-Virus Enterprise Edition was deployed. This paved the way for Icomm to start work on a virtual private networking solution which will ultimately allow Central Weighing personnel secure, remote access to the company's network and resources.
The Benefits
"This project represented a major development for us and we were looking to change all aspects of our IT infrastructure and take Central Weighing forward. Icomm demonstrated their capability as a true end-to-end provider right down to the provision of the finance. We now have an infrastructure in place which is fast, secure and reliable. Our new system will enable us to grow the business in the future, but, more than that, we now have an IT partner we trust, who is passionate about business IT and where its deployment can add real commercial value to a business."Mark Wilcox, Central Weighing