Success story
Techint GroupIndustry• Engineering, Construction and Operations

Solution• OpenText™ InfoArchive

Techint Group managed to protect 1TBof critical engineering documents
Global general contractor deploys fully centralized
OpenText InfoArchive in just days.
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Results
Protects 1 TB of vitalengineering information
Deploys in only 25 days, meeting
urgent scheduling requirements
Enables staff to easily locate
and retrieve desired documents
in seconds“It took us only 25 days to fully deploy OpenText InfoArchive.
It is not easy to find a solution that is so easy to implement
while also being so appropriate to our needs.”
Valerio Mascheroni,Senior IT Applications Specialist,
Techint Construction & EngineeringTechint Group managed to protect 1TB of critical engineering documents

Techint Engineering & Construction, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofThe Techint Group, delivers engineering, procurement, construction,operations and management services for large-scale projects
located across the globe. With more than 70 years’ experience, thecompany has successfully completed more than 3,500 projects
within a wide range of segments including Oil and Gas, Energy,
Industrial Plants, Oil Refineries, Petrochemical Plants and Mining.
Its 19,500 employees rely on hundreds of thousands of engineering
information instances and documents to expedite accurate projectcompletion on time and to budget.

Business challenges

Techint E&C operations located in Europe, the Middle East, Africa andthe Americas had for years used Autodesk to archive and protect a fullterabyte of vital engineering information. However, this critical digital
data was now under threat due to a variety of reasons.
First, Autodesk announced that it would no longer support itsProductStream® CAD application. Second, Microsoft® Windows®
2003 which ran on 50 separate local servers and acted as the operating system for ProductStream was no longer being supported byMicrosoft. Valerio Mascheroni, Techint E&C Senior IT Application
Specialist, realized that he was facing a serious challenge. While theseapplications would no longer be useful, the data they contained were
essential and needed to be stored in a secure and compliant way.
“Within our EMEA region, we recognized that soon, critical historicalengineering information would no longer be adequately supported,”
Mascheroni explains. “To ensure ongoing security, we needed to finda new, highly available archive solution that was easy to use and thatwould fully secure these assets within a safe environment.”

To resolve his challenge, Mascheroni turned to OpenText. “We talked
with OpenText advisors and also consulted other OpenText
references,” he explains. “We learned that InfoArchive was designed
to enable us to decommission applications that were no longer
supported and to secure the data and content for the users.
As importantly, OpenText InfoArchive could be implemented
quickly to meet the urgent nature of our requirement.”

SolutionTo ensure the safe deployment of its new InfoArchive solution, Techint
E&C started with a Proof of Concept. During this test phase, thecompany realized that InfoArchive’s ease of use and high level ofsecurity were exactly what it required. Working with OpenText, thesolution was rolled out in less than a month to secure all engineering
information stored in the ProductStream application, which is nolonger supported.
A full terabyte of digitized engineering information was quickly migrated
from ProductStream to InfoArchive, which required only a single
centralized server to meet high levels of performance.
“It took us only 25 days to fully deploy InfoArchive, which included
the test phase and all data migration,” Valerio says. “This was a very
quick implementation. It is not easy to find a solution that is so easy
to implement while also being so appropriate to our needs.”
Following data migration, the AutoDesk application, as well as 49
servers were decommissioned.

“With InfoArchive,
we have significantly
lowered total cost ofownership (TCO). Today,
we only have to maintainone single server.”Bruno Corbo,
IT Regional Manager,

Techint Construction & EngineeringTechint Group managed to protect 1TB of critical engineering documents

Fully securing vital engineering information

Today, InfoArchive protects critical historical engineering information
within a fully secured, centralized archiving solution. Because
InfoArchive uses role-centric protection as well as other masking
features, Mascheroni has the knowledge that only approved Techint
E&C staff can access vital information. He also knows that OpenText
technologies provide a safe and stable environment for required
information security.
“We were driven to redefine our information archiving requirements because we were worried about its safety and security,” says
Mascheroni. “With InfoArchive, we now know that a full terabyteof vital engineering information is stored safely within a highly
secure and future-proofed environment.”

Speeding easy information access

Even though security was the primary concern, quick and easy
information access was also a factor in choosing InfoArchive. Techint
E&C staff are fully satisfied with InfoArchive’s focused search functionalities. “When we deployed InfoArchive, our staff immediately told
us how user-friendly and easy it is to use,” says Mascheroni. “Theydon’t have to remember multiple routines. Instead, they simply input
familiar criteria to search and retrieve desired information among
thousands of records in seconds.”

Lowering costs

While achieving lower operating costs was not a primary objective,
Valerio has discovered that InfoArchive has helped minimize thecompany’s total cost of ownership (TCO). This is due not only toincreased user efficiency, but also because InfoArchive requires only asingle centralized server to achieve required security and performance.
“Our legacy AutoDesk engineering application operated on 50
separate servers, all using Microsoft Windows 2003,” says Mascheroni.
“Each server required periodic maintenance and a separate
operating system license.”“With InfoArchive, we have significantly lowered TCO. Today,
we only have to maintain one single server. The deployment ofInfoArchive has resulted in an unanticipated yet welcome benefit:
we have significantly decreased the cost of archiving and managing
our engineering information.”

Redefining the future“We are so pleased with the performance of InfoArchive that thecompany is considering using this solution to manage all historic engineering information across our global operations,” says Mascheroni.
“Today, InfoArchive protects all of our engineering knowledge within
the EMEA region. Soon, it could be used by thousands of global staff
to access and protect historic engineering information for theentire company.”

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