A dynamic business, Enva achieves growth both organically and through a strategy of targeted acquisitions. Dan Bloor, Head of IT Service Delivery at Enva, was tasked with creating common systems and processes across the group, as well as integrating the new sites that are continually being brought into the group.
With a number of different companies brought together under the Enva brand, the existing IT infrastructure was a combination of four different longstanding contracts with major providers, none of which was particularly cost-effective.
It was a priority for Dan to create a unified network that could enable the both the operational day-to-day work and the digital transformation project work being undertaken across the group.
Enva selected Backbone to provide the WAN that would enable Enva to bring its four business units together and, at the same time, reduce the overall cost of its network.
The new WAN has enabled users to work from anywhere, and Enva has enjoyed additional, unexpected benefits – in particular, around service flexibility. Some cost savings were felt immediately; for example, removing the international call costs to Enva’s site in the Republic of Ireland.
While the original goals were to create a global WAN and reduce costs, that evolved as the project progressed, with Enva entrusting Backbone with more and more of its IT support.
This greater agility and speed is highly prized by a company growing rapidly through acquisition.
Enva has achieved its goal of a unified network with a strong cost efficiency. The company was most impressed because this cost reduction has been achieved at the same time as introducing resiliency across all Enva’s key sites and increasing bandwidth ten-fold.
With the exception of two very remote sites, all connections are no less than 100Mbps. This has enabled IT improvements that reduce the company’s reliance on Citrix and Remote Desktop – giving Dan one less thing to manage.