Summary
In 1997, one of the largest providers of property, casualty and liability insurance in the world, purchased a Mid-Atlantic-based insurance
company.

Business Challenge
Immediately, this company was faced with the problem of finding a service provider that had a strong nationwide presence that could assist with the integration of the two company’s IT environments. This work would involve visiting over 100 sites across the country and require the service provider to deploy Microsoft ® Windows® 95 to over 13,000 desktops. Travelling teams of technicians were not an option due to the cost associated with extensive travel. For this reason, the service provider had to be selected based on the ability to deploy its own resources to the 100 locations without having to subcontract any of the work.

How Allegis Group Helped
As one of the client's most respected vendors, we responded with a somewhat unique proposal. The proposal centred on providing a programme manager that would work with the Client's project managers. This Programme Manager would coordinate the use of our resources across the country to perform the required upgrades and conversions necessary to complete the project. The client selected Allegis Group because it would retain complete control of the project, in addition to significantly cutting expenses.

The client chose TEK Systems as its primary partner for the project. The project was a great success and has led to other opportunities for Allegis Group. Allegis Group has completed multiple other projects since this integration, including: a Remedy® consulting opportunity, several nationwide relocations and consolidation projects, another integration, and a server migration project (Novell®4.11 to Microsoft ® Windows ® 2000) that involved 110 locations and over 130 servers. Today, we rank as one of the Client's top service providers.