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Case Study
Subsea 7 reduces costs by migrating worldwide to Microsoft
Objective
• Reduce telecommunications costs and increase global productivity
Approach
• Migrate to Microsoft Skype for Business worldwide to streamline operations and simplify communications
IT Matters
• Simplified management by migrating 45 Cisco Call Managers to four Skype for Business pools
• Implemented a distributed datacenter strategy to increase reliability and redundancy
• Deployed a unified communications solution that streamlines operations
Business Matters
• Estimated first-year calling savings of over 50%
• Reduced conferencing costs by 80%
• Increased productivity worldwide by simplifying communications and collaboration
Skype for Business
HPE Technology Consulting Services builds unified communications infrastructure
Subsea 7 worked with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to design and implement a unified communications solution based on Microsoft Skype for Business that supports over 6,500 users around the world.
A global leader in seabed­to-surface engineering, construction and services
Subsea 7 is one of the world’s leading global contractors in seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services to the oshore energy industry. It provides technical solutions to enable the delivery of complex projects in all water depths and challenging environments.
The company had a single datacenter infrastructure hosting Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync) without enterprise voice functionality. This platform was being used by employees around the world, and there was no disaster recovery solution in place. HPE provided Subsea 7 with a complete solution to transform to a more manageable, cost-eective, and reliable communications approach.
Case study
Subsea 7
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“HPE has helped us reduce operating costs while increasing workplace
connectivity. HPE consultants designed a reliable distributed datacenter approach and successfully migrated Subsea 7 to Microsoft Skype for Business in over 25 locations worldwide.”
— Adele Leport, IT Engagement and Operations Director for Subsea 7
HPE consultants designed and implemented a robust unified communications solution with highly available data recovery by upgrading worldwide to Microsoft Skype for Business and deploying three new datacenters to support unified communications. Most of the company’s land-based facilities have been provided with localized bandwidth management, and all facilities are being provided with rich unified communications services, including presence management, audio and video conferencing, calendaring, and desktop sharing.
Moving to unified communications
Subsea 7 was looking to reduce the cost of its services so it could continue to provide a competitive ROI for its projects. The company had Cisco Call Manager at 45 locations, and had legacy contracts with multiple telephone service providers.
Subsea 7 sought to design and implement a long-term unified communications and telephony road map and leverage Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking to implement Tier 1 voice services worldwide. Subsea 7 wanted to increase eiciency throughout its internal operations, and HPE was chosen as the company best-suited to provide Subsea 7 with a unified communications solution worldwide.
HPE had a longtime relationship with Subsea 7—primarily providing storage solutions, and Microsoft also recommended HPE as the partner of choice for deploying a single unified communications solution across five continents. “HPE has been a forerunner in the adoption of the unified communications technology, which gave us confidence in HPE’s ability to act as an agent for change for Subsea 7,” says Adele Leport, IT Project Manager for Subsea 7.
Subsea 7 selected HPE services for Microsoft Skype for Business, part of HPE digital collaboration solutions. HPE consultants designed and implemented the Skype for Business solution and associated infrastructure, in addition to designing and implementing disaster recovery capabilities for Subsea 7. The company consolidated onto a single global service provider, and SIP trunking was implemented at all major land­based locations to better control costs.
The global dependency on a single datacenter was eliminated, and HPE built three additional datacenters to eliminate the need to backhaul all calls to a single datacenter so Subsea 7 could increase performance and enable redundancy and disaster recovery. By deploying a dedicated Skype for Business mediation pool in each of the four datacenters, Subsea 7 is able to retire its legacy Cisco telephony solution and rely on a single unified communications infrastructure to support global operations.
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