Supporting rapid changes to beat digital disruption
In Brisbane, BDO maintains a regional hub for shared IT services in NEXTDC’s B1 Brisbane data centre. As part of a global audit, tax and advisory network, BDO is at the forefront of its industry, dealing with digital disruption, and the need to rapidly change and upgrade its IT services.
Situation
BDO needs to both reply in real-time on very complex matters, while working with their partners to understand and realise emerging opportunities. Although the way the firm works is changing dramatically, establishing an appetite for change throughout the diverse organisation has been challenging, because BDO must look two to three years into the future to see what current methods will still work, while continuously supporting all service lines, and giving BDO staff more time for their projects and future opportunities.
With BDO's customers becoming increasingly more dynamic and savvier, they realised they needed to adapt and plan for the future in order to deliver more bespoke solutions for their customers without the time constraints. As BDO is at the forefront of their industry, dealing with digital disruption and realised the need to rapidly change and upgrade their IT services. BDO needed to both reply in real-time on very complex matters, while working with their partners to understand and realise emerging opportunitities.
"We are passionate about building outstanding relationships with our clients, as such, we want to work with service providers who share the same values." Tony Schiffmann - Chief Executive Partner
Our partnership advantage
- Added productivity with freed up teams
- Enhanced security
- Refocus on other business priorities
Solution
NEXTDC provides a rock-solid, safe, secure, bullet-proof data centre and facility service which allows BDO to focus on providing the information and business support systems to the partners and staff of the firm without needing to worry.
"We selected NEXTDC as our partner of choice as they provide us with a consistent level of service our business demands nationally, delivering ongoing reassurance of the safety of our critical infrastructure and sovereignty of our data, an important requirement sighted by our customers.”
Results
The introduction of a data centre solution meant BDO benefited from a level of productivity and security for their critical IT infrastructure they were previously unable to achieve. The implementation of their data centre solution has also freed up the time of their Management team, allowing them to focus on planning and delivering core business priorities.
In Brisbane, BDO maintains a regional hub for shared IT services in NEXTDC’s B1 Brisbane data centre, which forms part of NEXTDC's robust Brisbane Data Centre offering. As part of a global audit, tax and advisory network, BDO is at the forefront of its industry, dealing with digital disruption, and the need to rapidly change and upgrade its IT services.
