Over the last couple of decades we have built up a network across the company to connect together the various steps of our business processes, ranging from Mainframe order processing to sharing mission critical information quickly and efficiently. Helping drive the Grattan success story by delivering the right information to the relevant people is only part of the information management responsibility borne by Anthony King's department. Obviously, security is a priority for us. We have to be sure about the integrity of our information and we have a duty to protect our customers' confidentiality. If we can't trust our information it becomes practically useless.
Novell products integrate well into the mixed network environments and into our security systems.
A further question to consider is the availability of bandwidth. As Grattan's business grows, more and more information will need to cross the network, and this necessitates greater management of bandwidth resources. Facilitating the flow of huge volumes of business critical information around the company, while maintaining user confidence in that information's security and integrity, is a complex and ambitious management challenge. The aim is to create a centralised management tool from which his department can control access privileges, desktop resources and information flow right across the enterprise. However, as we progressed the plan it seemed to make more sense to invest in a high value solution that could meet our management objectives while also preparing the company's information systems for future business growth.