Accelerating Carve-Out Success: How RKON Delivered a 100-Day IT Carve-Out

Customer Story

Accelerating Carve-Out Success: How RKON Delivered a 100-Day IT Carve-Out

For the past 30 years, this company has amassed the largest and most comprehensive collection of environmental, health and safety data. What is more, they have attracted and retained the industry’s leading technical experts and thought leaders. Drawing upon this combination, the organization assesses, models, and maps
the unique needs of customers across the size, maturity, and complexity spectrums to produce best-in-class solutions that help keep people safe, products sustainable and operations productive.

Client:

Environmental software company

Company Size:

80 locations

Industry:

High-tech Software

Project Type

Carve-Out

100-Day Plan

The Challenge

After being acquired in 2016, this company made the strategic decision to carve-out the Environmental Health and Safety department.

Three Critical Elements of the Acquisition:

1. IT transformation assessment
2. IT comprehensive planning and consolidation
3. Migration of the new company’s IT infrastructure

Our Solution

Carve-Out &
IT Migration Plan

Weekly IT Status Meetings

Conducting weekly IT status meetings and representing the IT workstream at cross-functional meetings— including keeping them apprised of any IT project issues or risks

Project Work Plan

Developing a project work plan with high-level tasks and milestones for each in-scope project

IT Process Design

Assisting in the design of new IT processes

Progress Monitoring

Monitoring progress toward milestones and updating plans as needed

Active Directory & Email Migration

Planning and executing the global Active Directory and Email migration within the first 100 days

RKON’s plan resulted in efficient integration, faster benefits, and a shorter timeline for the migration into a new domain. Using several critical applications, along with proven carve-out methodologies, tools, and outcome accountable approaches, we helped efficiently execute on three crucial elements and ensured timely migration. Now, RKON is a preferred vendor and trusted partner.

The Outcome

New Locations Supported

In less than two years

> 60

Days Outsourcing Security & IT Management

Across VMware and Veeam environments

Platform Standardization

To eliminate redundancy

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