Making ICT Easy

Knowledge transfer at heart of
Polytechnic transformation

04 May 2010

When Otago Polytechnic decided to make a complete swap from its Novell environment to Microsoft, it selected Integral Axon to execute a transformational project to replace the institution’s entire underlying infrastructure with a new Microsoft environment.

The Polytechnic wanted to be completely self sufficient at the end of the project, able to support the new environment without need for external resources. During the nine-month project, Integral Axon partnered with the Polytechnic's internal staff to smoothly transfer key intellectual property.

The project laid a solid platform enabling the Polytechnic to deliver a wider range of services and technologies to staff and students.

"Integral Axon really heard, understood and delivered our critical project outcomes," says Otago Polytechnic CIO Michael Collins.

"Our migration project created a solid Microsoft platform for us to deliver a range of new services to staff and students. A key outcome we wanted was the ability to continue supporting the new platform with our in-house expertise, so knowledge transfer was critical. We felt Integral Axon was the only vendor that really heard and understood the importance of that."

"Furthermore, Integral Axon's project management was brilliant, I can't fault it," he says.

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