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Technology in Action

Butler Technologies and its move to the cloud John Carney, Chief Financial Officer

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Butler Technologies and its journey to the

cloud

 About Butler Technologies  Our technology challenges  Why cloud and why Office 365?  Implementation  Business benefits

Who are we?

 Founded in 1997 to

provide secure communications, test and measurement systems to telecoms and electronic sectors.

 Based in Maynooth, Co

Kildare and we employ 30

 Acquired Transtest in 2005

to provide in-house and

• n-site equipment repair

and calibration

What were our technology challenges?

Connectivity and VPN issues for mobile

workers

Burgeoning email storage requirements Network downtime Windows XP end of life Tight IT budget

What was our IT strategy?

 Move to the Cloud  More resilient and

robust and introduces a new level of confidence in our IT

 Requires less IT

administration

• verhead

 Allows us to get down

to business

How did we get there?

 MJ Flood Technology

consulting team guided

• ur thinking

 Designed and

implemented a migration strategy to cloud-based communications

 Deployed 30 Office 365

seats including Exchange, SharePoint and SkyDrive Pro now OneDrive

Benefits of the Cloud

 Safe, secure, reliable email platform  Capex versus Opex financing model  Streamlined email storage in the cloud  Improved collaboration with on site and off site

document sharing

 Less application downtime and fewer IT issues  ‘Evergreen’ software with staff always working

• ff the latest version

 Full features and functionality used by staff

thanks to ‘compulsory’ training

My advice to other organisations

Partner with an IT

services provider that understands your business

Don’t neglect staff

training

Thank you for listening

John Carney, CFO, Butler Technologies john@butlertech.ie