We Help Bluestone With 3 IT Relocations in 1 Month

With a 300-plus workforce, Bluestone had reached a stage of growth that required the relocation of three offices and their related IT services. Due to the timing of Bluestone’s lease contracts, the move had to happen within a one month time constraint. To add to the pressure, the IT relocation would take place across no less than three countries. There was also the challenge of bridging a foreign language gap in the Philippines. This meant that it was quite an undertaking to manage this project smoothly, and deliver a solution on time. Bluestone simply didn’t have the IT project management resources to do this. So they turned to Stanfield IT for help.

The complete IT relocation project would cover these areas:

• Firstly, the Australian office would set up an extra floor of office space in their current building;
• In addition, the New Zealand office would move to a new building;
• And lastly, the Philippines office would move within their current building to another floor

Australia

The existing office space already had internet access. So we used a fibre connection between the two office floors to get the internet up and running on the additional floor.

While processing the ownership change of the phone system, Stanfield IT discovered that there were a number of unnecessary MPLS connections. This was not initially part of the IT relocation project scope, but Stanfield IT was able to successfully rationalise the phone network and save the company considerably on their phone costs.

Stanfield IT worked on-site to carry out the IT project management in a timely manner, and the physical move took place over a weekend. Bluestone was happy with the successful end-result.

New Zealand

Despite the time pressure in New Zealand, Stanfield IT, successfully set up all necessary infrastructure and internet before the weekend of the move. The IT relocation of the New Zealand office all went ahead smoothly.

The Philippines

We had to be creative in solving the challenge of internet access for the new Philippines office. The floor which Bluestone already occupied, had internet access. The floor which they were moving to, did not. We needed to run a fibre between the two floors to connect them. However, there was not enough space in the riser between these two floors for the telecommunications company to install their cables.

Stanfield IT came up with an innovative solution to keep the IT relocation project on track. By using the existing cable out of the first floor, we were able to connect to the internet in the basement. We then ran the cable back up to the new floor from the basement. As a result we managed to get the internet active for their new office space.