The LINPAC Group 

The LINPAC Group is a £1.1bn global business made up of four core divisions which together offer their customers tailored packaging and materials handling products and services. LINPAC's 9,000 employees are based out of 90 locations worldwide providing packaging and supply chain solutions across five continents.

The LINPAC Group is a privately owned business, backed by Montagu Private Equity and was recently ranked 31st in The Times Top Track 100 list of private UK companies (June 2008).

IT Infrastructure

Historically, LINPAC has predominately grown through acquisitions and mergers. IT is managed at the division level and each division and site often has its own supporting IT Infrastructure. There are multiple Active Directory Domains, multiple Forests, Workgroups and Netware File and Print Services. Each location is joined by site to site VPN connections.

Challenges

There were a number of challenges that any asset and systems management product would need to overcome:

• Multiple Domains, Forests and Workgroups
• Low bandwidth network connectivity and site to site VPN
• Multiple Firewalls
• Legacy NT4 computer systems
• Primarily Static IP addressing with some DHCP locations
• No global name resolution i.e. DNS and WINS
• Multiple languages and language versions of software

The Solution

The LINPAC Group required an asset management product that:

• Would work on the complexities of their IT infrastructure
• Be simple to install and simple to use
• Did not require lots of expensive supporting infrastructure
• Required little or no training
• Would be scalable to meet their immediate and future needs
• Could easily be removed in the event of a demerger or acquisition
• Had full vendor support

Certero and AssetStudio™ ticked all the boxes. AssetStudio™ was installed on a single server in less than 1 day and key staff trained within 1 day.

Clive Mayos, Head of Service Delivery for LINPAC stated, "The key differentiator of AssetStudio over other Asset Management products is its simplicity. We had looked at various other products over the years, the Agent less solutions weren't suitable for our infrastructure and only provided a point in time snapshot. The tracking of assets across multiple businesses in several continents, that weren't always part of our core network was almost impossible. AssetStudio fit the bill perfectly where others had failed."

"The agent less scheduled discovery and agent based inventory meant that we were able to capture all our assets within a few weeks. The ability for the agent to upload via HTTPS even through proxy servers meant that we could track laptops even when they weren't part of the corporate network."

"The additional feature of Software Delivery meant that we were able to adjust to change more efficiently and reduce the cost of IT projects significantly. The support from Certero was second to none. Their supportive, collaborative approach really did add value. I would recommend AssetStudio to any organisation that wants an Enterprise Asset Management tool without associated complexities and expense."

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