Success Story. Data center BG-Phoenics GmbH. Data Center Automation // Provisioning. automait - The ideal solution for our complex demands

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1 kubais - Fotolia.com Data Center Automation // Provisioning Success Story Data center BG-Phoenics GmbH automait - The ideal solution for our complex demands

2 Initial customer starting point Without error-free IT-infrastructure no smooth business this applies to public organizations as well as to commercial companies. BG-Phoenics is a popular partner in the branch of employers liability insurance associations and social insurance carriers when it comes to custom tailored IT-solutions from one vendor who offers comprehensive know-how in addition to its extensive and long-term experience. The ample software phoenics. covers all business processes of an employers liability insurance association: membership management, the complex scope of prevention up to occupational health tasks or even maintenance site examination. In order to provide stable IT-services more flexible and faster the BG-Phoenics team transitions from an outdated solution to a model based solution provided by NovaTec Solutions GmbH from Leinfelden-Echterdingen near Stuttgart: automait. Constant quality, reduced effort For our complex demands automait is the ideal solution, confirms Herbert Fischer, Team Leader Central Systems, department of operations from BG-Phoenics GmbH. After the former tool was discontinued by its vendor a quick market survey pointed out: in terms of flexibility the NovaTec solution is superior to other comparable competing products. The effort of migration and development is minimal due to the reusability of the provided software modules delivered by automait. Responsible at BG-Phoenics: Kurt Lehner, Director of IT-Opperations Responsible at NovaTec: Frank Scheffler, Product Manager Our basic principle was: provide IT-environments in constant high quality with repeatable constellations at considerably reduced processing effort, Herbert Fischer sums up. With automait we can reach this goal. The phoenics. application is highly flexible. No IT-environment looks the same. Third-party products are integrated into the in-house solution, depending on the individual demand of database solutions for example. Roughly two dozen software components have to work together seamlessly, the system administrator Christian Paulheim states. Paulheim and his colleagues install, configure and test the customer specific solution before the final IT-service is delivered to the customer. BG-Phoenics GmbH offers custom tailored IT-solutions for trade associations secure, fast and efficient with automait from NovaTec Solutions GmbH. kubais - Fotolia.com

3 Shorter provisioning time, efficient deployment With automait these complex processes became significantly easier and faster. The provisioning was cut from four weeks to one week, calculates Christian Paulheim and adds: Thereby we finally have more time for the essential tasks! And this is by no means the end of the road once the migration to automait 2.0 in 2014 will be completed, a further simplification of work processes will be possible. As common with model based provisioning using automait, configuration processes take place on a standardized interface where centrally preserved expert know-how can be retrieved at the click of a button the staff is not forced to configure every single specialized application. Team members can be placed much more flexible without loss of quality especially in a small team. Arjuna Kodisinghe - Fotolia.com For our complex demands automait is the ideal solution. Herbert Fischer, Team Leader Central Systems, Department of Operations, BG-Phoenics GmbH 3dmentat - Fotolia.com kjekol - Fotolia.com WavebreakmediaMicro - Fotolia.com xiaoliangge - Fotolia.com

4 Advantage hardware-independency The hardware-independency is another crucial advantage to team leader Herbert Fischer. The entire system of BG-Phoenics consists of many physical and virtual servers, based on an IBM power-architecture. Included additionally is a linux installation on a X86-platform. With automait that runs on 90 percent of the servers already, it is possible to fit everything into one consistent architecture model. A major advantage for deployment: practically a whole platform is discontinued many skills in the team do not need to be provided redundantly anymore. Thus manpower is freed for vital operative tasks: Two staff members gain up to ten percent of their time, estimates Herbert Fischer. Because of this flexibility the effort of transitioning to automait was kept in a reasonable scale: Two staff members, working with the new system, develop the application provisioning. During the initial stage, they have been supported by a third colleague and two external automait consultants from NovaTec Solutions. The one big button to fully automated provisioning of applications in a complex environment is our goal. Herbert Fischer, Team Leader Central Systems, Department of Operations, BG-Phoenics GmbH Less routine, more strategy Based on this positive experience, Herbert Fischer and his co-workers pointed out even higher goals. The next step implies the expansion to further platforms: By provisioning of Windows systems we will break new ground, the team leader reports. With automait 2.0 comes a universial solution We have just tested it and place high expectations on it. Even the configuration interface shall be simplified further to enable the provisioning of new applications with even less effort: The one big button to fully automated provisioning of applications in a complex environment is our goal, Herbert Fischer summarizes the intent. By its move to automait, BG-Phoenics has opened new horizons for their future. Sashkin - Fotolia.com

5 Product details automait automait offers the possibility to perfectly adapt provisioning- and administration processes according to your custom demands. As generic meta-tool automait is vendor independent and thus universally deployable. If it is one or of your IT-services, automait takes over the provisioning. The current version of automait adds support for provisioning under Windows, any Unix derivate or solaris is supported by default. automait is a product by NovaTec Solutions GmbH NovaTec is an owner-operated, independent German IT firm founded in 1993 supporting customers across various industries in the successful implementation of IT-related projects. NovaTec is a synonym for innovation, customer orientation and project success. NovaTec Solutions GmbH Dieselstraße 18/ Leinfelden-Echterdingen phone.: mail: info@novatec-gmbh.de web: Find our experts near you: Office Berlin Potsdamer Platz 11 D Berlin Office Frankfurt am Main Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 36 D Frankfurt am Main Office Munich Landshuter Allee 8-10 D Munich Office Jeddah Ahmad Ibn Jabir St. Al Fayha a District / 4 Jeddah Saudi Arabia All pictures, brands and texts are protected by copyright regulations. Their use may be permittet exclusively and only through permission of the author. Version 1.0 (October 2013)