Challenge.
The Winterthur-based software and services company, HRM Systems, had been working with various outsourcing partners for its IT for several years. As time went on, the solution no longer met the requirements of availability, reliability and was no longer fit for the future. On top of all this, the existing hardware was coming to the end of its lifecycle, and so the IT infrastructure needed a complete overhaul so that it could handle everything the future could throw at it and that consolidated all aspects of IT—from the network and applications to support—provided by one single partner.
As CEO Georg Hartmann explains, HRM Systems has particularly high demands of its IT. «As a software provider with our own development department, we and our some one hundred employees may be thought of as an SME, but the complexity of our infrastructure and the way we work means we need enterprise-grade IT solutions.» This meant that the systems for developing and testing the software had to be integrated into the overall IT, and performance has to meet the high speed requirements of the developers and software testers. There was another critical criteria for the cloud-based solution and that is that all data have to remain in Switzerland.