Golding Homes were undertaking an ambitious office move into a new building so saw this as the ideal opportunity to invest in an innovative connectivity solution. The social landlord needed a solution that could support their entire network, including remote workers, as well their growing demand for data.
Case Study: Community Connection with Golding Homes
Project Overview:
The Challenges:
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For companies at the heart of their communities, connectivity is vital to ensure operations run smoothly. Despite its ambitious targets, Golding Homes was facing serious challenges. It hoped to deliver modern services – but was restrained by its network capabilities, and limited by the infrastructure of its workspace.
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Employees were restrained by ongoing network access issues. Infrastructure challenges meant users were often limited to working in particular areas of the building, while overloaded bandwidth meant it wasn’t uncommon for the network to completely drop off at busy times.
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The original IT estate was a multi-vendor solution, which wasn’t efficient in terms of cost or time resource. This led to issues taking longer to resolve. And of course, as with any legacy IT estate, the old network also posed some security issues, although Golding Homes were fortunate to have never experienced a breach.
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Golding Homes knew that digital experience is central to employee engagement and general staff satisfaction, so it was keen to empower their staff to work without disruption. At the same time, a key part of serving its communities effectively in the future would lie in enabling staff to work flexibly or from outside the office.
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Business Impact:
- Improved network resilience and coverage
- Enhances security and network management
- Confidence to grow ambitiously in the future
“Visibility was extremely important – as we work with so many external partners and suppliers, we need to see exactly what’s going on across our estate, and be prepared to react accordingly.
Moving to a new office space created the ideal opportunity to update our connectivity infrastructure, and we were keen to capitalise on this with the support of M-Tech and Fortinet.
We’re delighted with the service we’ve received from M-Tech Systems, and the Fortinet solution is a fantastic way to give us proper insight into our network. The performance of the products has been brilliant.”
Jay Visram, Senior IT Lead, Golding Homes