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A list of our Clients, Customers and mini Case Studies with examples of the types of projects undertaken.,

Type of Organisation                          Project Examples / Summary

Housing Association Group  -  Exchange and Active Directory health check consultancy.Microsoft Operations Manager pilot. 

Media - Four DataCore SANmelody storage servers providing flexible, advanced storage resources to farm of 12 VMware ESX servers. 

Publisher - EMC CLARiiON based storage solution.

Legal Services  - Multi-site consolidation project and infrastructure upgrade consisting of: HP MSA based SAN storage implementation / Windows & Exchange 2003 migration / Clustered Exchange & File Servers / Configuration of Veritas BackUp Exec based Backup & Recovery system / Symantec LiveState Recovery / GFI Fax server implementation / Citrix thin client firm-wide rollout / Network switch configuration

Legal & Financial Services - IT Infrastructure Refresh Project, including: HP EVA based SAN storage system, HP StorageWorks Tape Library, Veritas Backup Exec software, and clustered Exchange servers.
Upgrade of Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) email archive solution.
Surfcontrol, Mimesweeper and MS ISA Server based security and content checking solution.
Active Directory and Exchange 2003 migration consultancy.
Software Asset Management. 

Patent Agents  - Citrix based remote access solution. CheckPoint and Clearswift based security. MS SMS based management. Veritas Backup Exec based data protection. Software Asset Management. 

Music Publishers   - Active Directory and Citrix MetaFrame health check and upgrade consultancy. 

Public Sector, Government - CommVault QiNetix Data Management system consultancy. 

Finance - Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) based email archiving solution.
MailMeter email reporting and management deployment
Host based data replication, DoubleTake

Insurance - Transam has worked on two projects in the last year. The first was to improve management of Citrix servers, particularly in the deployment and use of printers. We supplied Tricerat 'Simplify Printing' technology to achieve this.

We have also helped the client develop a high-end SAN at commodity hardware prices using DataCore SANsymphony software. This provides a shared pool of storage, synchronously replicated (mirrored) over three sites. 

Legal Services  - Software Licence Asset Management and Legal Compliance Consultancy Project; Provision of HP Digital Senders and DOCSLink software to integrate with Hummingbird Document Management System. Citrix technical support. Tricerat Simplify Printing to resolve Citrix printing issues. Provision of VMware GSX for server consolidation.
Provision of Symantec Enterprise Vault e-mail archiving system.

Insurance Dual EMC CLARiiON based storage solution. 

Public Sector, Government - Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) based email archive solution

Legal Services  - Small DataCore SANmelody system used to provide disk volume auto-provisioning.

Public Sector, EU Agency - Over the past two years Transam has supplied the agency with server and storage infrastructure to support a web-facing information management system. The system is a three tier architecture running Oracle Application Server and 9iRAC database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Over 100 servers plus two HP EVA storage arrays, together with various other related products and services are deployed as part of the project.

Legal Services - Assistance with rollout of Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) email archive solution to 4500 users. 

Publisher  - This client is a long term Transam client with whom we have worked on many projects. During 2005 we worked with them to design and deploy a flexible storage infrastructure based on DataCore SANmelody, a hardware independent storage solution. The solution allows the client to utilise existing storage resources but adds advanced data management capabilities such as storage virtualisation, snapshot support and off site replication. 

Public Relations - Citrix consultancy; CommVault QiNetix Data Protection and Email Archiving solution 

Broadcaster - EMC Centera and EMC-Legato EMail Xtender based email archive solution.  

Finance - Developed a planning and design document to consolidate three Active Directory forests and their respective Exchange organisations into a single Windows 2003 Active Directory forest and Exchange 2003 organisation using Quest migration tools. 

Property - Citrix and Microsoft ISA Server implementation and support. DNS configuration services. 

Automotive & other businesses - Technical troubleshooting, end user training and upgrade of Hummingbird Document Management system including provision of DOCSlink software to integrate HP Digital Sender. 

Public Sector, Health & Education - During 2004 & 2005 Transam worked in partnership with this Institute to design and deliver an Active Directory environment for about 3,000 users. This work was recently supplemented with a two tier Microsoft Exchange solution, again supporting around three thousand users. The users were migrated from a mixture of UNIX and Lotus based mail systems. As a result of the success of this project the main body of college email users will also be migrated to Microsoft Exchange during 2006.

Previously Transam has supplied two Compaq/HP Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays, and campus wide HP ProCurve switch architecture. Transam has supplied two significant phases of network infrastructure, wired and wireless, both based on HP ProCurve technology, plus a 50KW UPS solution to support two small data rooms.

Recently VMware ESX has been deployed as a first step towards server consolidation and flexible infrastructure. 

Newspaper Publisher - Dual site (Paris & London) Citrix consultancy to provide IT services to remote users in Hong Kong office. 

Exhibition Organiser - DataCore SANmelody based storage solution. CommVault data management solution includes Galaxy backup and recovery plus Data Migrator / Archiver for eMail management. 

Legal Services  - Citrix technical consultancy & Secure Outlook Web Access (OWA) project utilising MS ISA Server. Software Asset Management. 

Finance  - CheckPoint Firewall upgrade, migration and configuration.  Clearswift Mimesweeper implementation 

Legal Services - Firm wide rollout of new HP printers & MFP’s. Provision of NSi Autostore to integrate HP9000 MFP’s with file directory structures. Provision of secure HP Cheque Printers. Provision of Symantec Enterprise Vault for email archiving and assistance with Exchange 2003 migration. 

Property - Email consultancy. Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) health check consultancy service, file system archive and public folders support.  

Legal Services - Software Licence Asset Management and Legal Compliance Consultancy Project; Provision of HP Digital Senders and DOCSLink software to integrate with Hummingbird Document Management System; Citrix technical consultancy. 

Insurance Services - Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) email archiving solution. Assistance with integration of Cisco VOIP system into IT infrastructure and applications. Disaster Recovery planning and testing consultancy. 

Legal Services - Enterprise Vault (KVS) email management and compliance archive solution upgrade. Blackberry Enterprise Server deployment. Exchange 2003 Migration. Software Asset Management, including maintenance/support for CheckPoint Firewall, Citrix, Clearswift Mimesweeper, AVD.
triCerat Simplify Printing to resolve Citrix printing issues.
Firm wide rollout of EIZO high resolution PC screens.
General HP hardware supply. 

Legal & financial services:   Off site synchronously replicated HP EVA solution. CommVault data protection and management solution. Various other consultancy services.

This client is a fast growing legal and financial services organisation based on Jersey, with further offices in London and Croydon. Over the past five years they have seen tremendous growth in their business as they have extended their financial services. During this time several Transam consultants have been deployed in various projects, some described below:

Interwoven (iManage) Document Management System implementation:-
•     Implementation of backend document repositories.
•     Design and writing of custom application to push matter information from a matter management system to Interwoven DMS for use as indexing metadata.
•     Design and implementation of SQL replication for synchronising indexing metadata in fourteen databases across three sites.
•     Design and implementation of custom Word automation and DMS integration
•     Design and implementation of custom tools to extract documents from existing GroupWise document libraries.
•     Migration of documents from GroupWise libraries to iManage. 

GroupWise to Exchange migration
•     Evaluation of Notes and Microsoft Exchange migration options.
•     Design of co-existence infrastructure.
•     Migration of 1200 mailboxes from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange 2000 across three sites. 

Group migration to Windows 2000
•     From NetWare and Windows NT for over 1000 users across six locations
•     Joint project management with client IT Manager
•     Evaluation of migration tools
•     Planning and testing of server consolidation
•     Upgrade/migration of all existing Windows NT servers to Windows 2000
•     Migration of all user and group information from NetWare to Windows AD
•     Migration of all file system data and permissions from NetWare to clustered Windows Storage Servers (NAS) with back-end storage on HP EVA SAN
•     Migration of all print services from NetWare to clustered Windows servers 

iManage Document Management System upgrade
•     Migration of document repository from NetWare to clustered Windows servers
•     Upgrade of client and server components
•     Updates to Word macro integration and automation
•     Reconfiguration of indexing metadata to suit new matter management system 

Design Authority for network architecture
•     A web based real time transactional employee share plan management system.
•     Responsible for approving third party implementations on behalf of Client
•     Design and implementation of Cisco resilient LAN infrastructure 

Public Sector, Health _ Citrix Health Check, system upgrade and on-going support. CommVault QiNetix Data Management system consultancy 

Engineering Consultancy - Transam client for over ten years. During this time we have assisted a small IT team with two complete IT infrastructure refreshes. Over the past twelve months we have assisted with a re-location project, Exchange messaging system plus Microsoft ISA Server based firewall deployment. 

Legal Services  - Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) based email archiving solution, Software Licence Asset Management and Legal Compliance Consultancy Project. General software sourcing. 

Energy - This company has been a Transam client for almost twenty years. We have assisted them through four generations of IT infrastructure, working in partnership with both the UK IT team and also the head office teams in Brazil where appropriate. We have also worked on remote site deployments, particularly Angola. Over the past two years a comprehensive IT infrastructure upgrade project was completed, activities included: Windows NT to Active Directory migration / Integration to worldwide corporate Active Directory / Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration / FileNET Panagon to Sharepoint Portal Server Document Management System migration / CommVault Galaxy enterprise backup system / Optical library configuration / Assistance with integration of Cisco VOIP system into IT infrastructure and applications / Managed computer room relocation / CommVault DM (stale data migration) project / Outlook Mobile Access project / Surfcontrol content management & security / CommVault Galaxy backup system upgrade. 

Software developer - This well known software company has been a Transam client for around ten years. During that time we have worked on many varied projects. Some of the most recent are: -  

HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks SAN solution. VMware GSX & ESX server consolidation project. Veritas NetBackup migration to CommVault QiNetix data protection, plus Exchange and File System (stale) data migration solution.

Citrix ‘Server based Computing’ deployment.

Chartered Body  - Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) email archiving solution health check consultancy; Exchange health check consultancy 

Legal Services -  Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) based email archive solution; Disaster Recovery consultancy; Provision of HP Digital Senders and DOCSlink software to integrate with Hummingbird Document Management System plus subsequent migration to Interwoven Document Management System. Software Licence Asset Management. Provision of Workshare document comparison & collaboration software.

Provision of Citrix Secure Access Gateway appliances. 

Newspaper publisher  - This group of media companies has been a Transam client since 2001. In that time we have helped design, build and support several projects including:

HP server deployments (both blade and traditional form factor), HP SAN and NAS storage, CommVault QiNetix data protection and email archiving solution. Exchange, SQL and File System cluster consultancy. Active Directory design and configuration consultancy. Data migration to DR site project.

We have recently been engaged to assist with the re-location of the business from East to South West London and the associated infrastructure refresh. 

Broadcaster - Windows and SQL Server Cluster configuration. Previous projects have included several Compaq / HP fibre channel SAN solutions, enterprise class data protection systems and deployment of both traditional and blade format servers.  

Media - Small Windows based web site infrastructure comprising two node SQL cluster on MSA1500 fibre channel array, plus two node Windows Load Balanced Web Servers. 

Electronic Publisher - Interwoven Document Management solution upgrade; Active Directory Consultancy, Disaster Recovery consultancy 

Manufacturer - CommVault QiNetix Data Management system consultancy. Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) based email archiving solution 

Financial Services - Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) email archiving consultancy plus UK's first integration of Akonix Instant Messaging management system with Enterprise Vault. 

Public Sector, Transport - Supply of Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) email management and compliance archiving software for over fifteen thousand mailboxes.

Legal Services -  Provision of Citrix remote access system primarily for remote access from home PC’s. triCerat Simplify Printing to resolve Citrix printing issues. Upgrade & support of CheckPoint firewall. Software Asset Management. Provision of Veritas Backup Exec. 

Legal Services - VMware ESX for server consolidation and for future DR purposes. 

Engineering: - EMC AX plus NetWin NAS storage solution.

Legal Services -  EMC CLARiiON based storage solution.