Suncorp uses Infy's 'Accelerate' Migration Soln

Bangalore, Feb 13: Suncorp, the largest financial organisation of Australia, has migrated over 10,000 desktops and 350 applications to Microsoft Windows XP using Infosys' Global Delivery Model (GDM) and desktop migration solution 'Accelerate' to achieve a standardised operating environment that will reduce costs, improve performance and enhance security.

Infosys successfully migrated over 100 desktops a day, with a peak of 200 a day at some stages, including user's accounts, data, applications and print queues, the two companies announced in a release here.

The migration programme, executed across 277 locations, was completed in December 2006. It started with an initial assessment of the company's existing environment, including its various unsupported platforms, the release said.

Suncorp's General Manager for IT Infrastructure Paul Cameron said ''it has been a fantastic collaborative effort between Suncorp, Infosys and Microsoft. In just eight months, we migrated over 10,000 desktops with very little interruption to our staff. They would simply go home one night running NT and when they came to work the next day they had XP on their machines and access to the new supporting infrastructure and business applications.'' Infosys Technologies Australia CEO Gary Ebeyan said ''the implementation of the standard desktop environment at Suncorp is a great example of how the GDM can be successfully used to deliver large infrastructure projects utilising our offshore delivery centres, while reducing the time and cost required to do it all on-site.''

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