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

Content  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 on-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 overhead  Allows us to get down to business

How did we get there?  MJ Flood Technology consulting team guided our 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 off 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