About TDM Group
Success
stories – Aspiren
The Aspiren group are a performance management consultancy who have developed a performance management soluiton, Aspireview. Aspiren’s solution is available both in the UK and internationally and will enable businesses to undertake performance management assessment, including balanced scorecard analysis, on a rental basis.
“70% of business initiatives are not in-line with corporate strategy, says Nigel Watson, Chief Operating Officer at Aspiren. “Therefore business performance software is a crucial measurement tool to ensure the continued growth and focused direction of a business. In this current climate, business performance analysis is more important now than ever before, with businesses requiring key metrics in real time to respond to changing market conditions. Shrinking IT budgets and the increased reliance on IT for competitive advantage, should make the software as a service model attractive to many businesses.”
The Brief
In order to ensure its successful implementation and provide Aspiren with a robust service, TDM Group were asked to design, create and implement the technology to enabled Aspireview to be readily available to businesses whenever needed. This included defining the architecture, as well as configurating the network and operating system. The contract with Aspiren is on an on-going basis, with TDM being responsible for ensuring businesses have the ability to access Aspireview 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Solution
Continued Watson; “Offering a service means that permanent availability is critical. We cannot afford for our systems to go down and that is why we chose TDM Group, as they understand our needs and our requirements. Its independence from ISPs and the security services it offers were particularly attractive for us.”
Aspirens need was for a reliable, robust and continualy available systems solution, which would support its software service over the internet service. To accommodate this TDM Group designed a completely redundant solution. The solution included mirroring of disks and multiple groups of servers, providing both SQL and Web support, together with daily backup and bespoke technical support to accommodate specific requirements. Furthermore, Aspirens solution utilises TDM Group’s redundant infrastructure, which provides multiple independent ISP links, redundant routing and switching within dual datacentres.
Conclusion
“The work we have undertaken for Aspiren proves that hosting means more than just that. Hosting is all about ensuring businesses have the right technology framework in place before going live, in order to be robust and reliable,” comments Tarek Meliti, Technical Director of TDM Group. “Aspiren’s offering is proof of the growing trend for businesses to once again start offering software as a service over the Internet. However, people are being far more careful about the types of service they offer. Aspiren have spotted an opportunity and have realised that the best way to capitalise on it is to use the Internet. Business performance analysis is a growth area, and by providing it as a service over the Internet, Aspiren can meet the needs of businesspeople who need to access key metrics 24/7.”
