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Advent One receives Two National IBM Business Partner Awards for 2009
In recognition of an outstanding 2009 IBM has awarded Advent One the National Systems and Technology Power Business Partner of the Year and the National Co-Marketing Partner of the Year... Read More »
An Advent One Roundtable Breakfast
Join Advent One, IBM, VMware and your industry peers to discuss the next stages of virtualising your ICT infrastructure: your core business applications and user desktops. With a format designed to encourage open and engaging discussion, this is one breakfast not to be missed by CIOs and other IT executives responsible for the management of applications and user desktops. Read More »
Growth in Business Solutions & Consulting Practice
Advent One has strengthened its consulting capability with the addition of key resource with experience in both pre-sales and consulting delivery. Read More »
A bigger team means a bigger office
As part of Advent One’s continued investment in new capabilities and people, we have now relocated...Read More »
A new class of IBM Solutions: Lotus Domino, Portal and Tivoli Security
In October 2009, Advent One expanded its service solutions offerings to encompass IBM Lotus Domino, WebSphere Portal and Tivoli Security...Read More »
Advent One adds Microsoft and Silver Citrix Partnership
Advent One has extended its already strong partnerships to include Microsoft and Citrix Silver partnership. Read More »
Advent One becomes a VMWare Enterprise Partner, May 2009
Already a VMWare partner, Advent One has recently advanced to an Enterprise Partner in recognition of our continued investment in certifications. More »
Advent One becomes a FileNet partner, April 2009
Advent One has become a FileNet business partner extending its existing content and records management focus. More »
Enterprise Email: Risk, Responsibility, Compliance & Control, May 2008
In conjunction with MacPherson and Kelley Lawyers, Advent One presented a breakfast seminar on the risks that unchecked email can be exposing your company to. More »
Victorian Solution Provider of the Year, May 2008
Advent One has received one of IBM’s highest accolades for excellence in delivering client solutions. Read more »
Intellinx selected by Police CU, April 2008
Victoria’s Police Credit has deployed Intellinx for insider threat detection and prevention. Read more »
Peter McCallum maximises storage, March 2008
Advent One upgraded data capacity, while maintaining the hospital’s existing investment. Read more »
Murray Goulburn improves SAP response times, March 2008
Virtualisation enabled one IBM Series p5 to replace 7 SUN servers, reduce licence costs and boost app performance. Read more »
Advent One partners with VMware, November 2007
Advent One to integrate and support VMware directly, or in conjunction with IBM hardware systems. Read more »
Advent One receives Two National IBM Business Partner Awards for 2009
February 2010In recognition of an outstanding 2009 IBM has awarded Advent One the National Systems and Technology Power Business Partner of the Year and the National Co-Marketing Partner of the Year.
These awards recognise the dedicated efforts of the Advent One team and the value they bring to Clients through the IBM Systems & Technology Group Solutions.
Growth in Business Solutions & Consulting Practice
November 2009Advent One has strengthened its consulting capability with the addition of key resource with experience in both pre-sales and consulting delivery.
The Advent One solutions practice provides expertise ranging from IT strategy, business analysis, and project management through to deep expertise in the end to end implementation of systems utilising IBM Portal, Social Software, Information Management and SOA platforms.
A bigger team means a bigger office
November 2009As part of Advent One’s continued investment in new capabilities and people, we have now relocated to much larger premises on Level 4 of the IBM Centre. All other details remain the same.
Our full address is now:
Level 4 - IBM Centre
60 City Road
Southbank VIC 3006
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9626 5900
Fax: +61 3 9626 5999
A new class of IBM Solutions: Lotus Domino, Portal and Tivoli Security
October 2009In October 2009, Advent One expanded its service solutions offerings to encompass IBM Lotus Domino, WebSphere Portal and Tivoli Security, allowing us to offer more breadth and depth in the IBM Software portfolio.
This substantial addition to the services portfolio represents what Advent One stands for, continually investing in the development of our people and technologies to better serve needs of our customers.
Lotus: Social software, bringing people and information together to connect and collaborate in powerful and innovative ways:
- Lotus Sametime provides enterprise wide real-time communications and collaboration, including presence awareness, instant messaging, web conferencing and telephony capabilities. It can integrate with a wide variety of software including Lotus collaboration products such as Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and Portal and Web applications
- Lotus Quickr allows teams of people to collaborate on and share content, both inside and outside of the organisation
- Lotus Notes and Domino is a rich messaging and collaboration platform. It provides the ability to deploy enterprise level email, collaboration capabilities and a custom application development platform
WebSphere Portal: Portals provide a personalized window of the organization, allowing staff, customers, partners and suppliers to work together. Role based access to what you need, when you need it.
Tivoli Security: Powerful end to end, policy based security solution, simplifying user access and administration and application control.
Advent One adds Microsoft and Silver Citrix Partnership
October 2009Advent One is now a Microsoft Certified Partner, building on our existing infrastructure skills in VMware, Citrix and the IBM portfolio.
As a Microsoft Certified Partner we are well positioned in being able to provide Microsoft’s Core Infrastructure Optimisation, providing IT infrastructure that is more agile, secure, and better managed while reducing the overall costs and making better use of computing resources.
Advent One has signed a partnership agreement with Citrix, a leading Global provider in virtualised technologies. Citrix simplifies computing by delivering applications as an on demand service to any user, any time on any device.
Building on our strong experience in virtualisation, Citrix centralises, virtualises and minimizes the complexity of day to day computing, providing users with a seamless experience across all devices in a 24/7 business environment.
Specialists in virtualisation design, development and deployment, Advent One is proud to offer a breadth of virtualisation technologies:
- Desktop Virtualisation
- Application Virtualisation
- Applicaiton Networking
- Cloud Computing
Advent One becomes a VMWare Enterprise Partner.
May 2009Already a VMWare partner, Advent One has recently advanced to an Enterprise Partner in recognition of our continued investment in certifications. Our new partner status builds on our already existing strong partner relationship with VMware, and ensuring that our employees are certified and trained in the technology.
Building on the existing experience in design, development and deployment of virtualisation projects, our certification and partnership status ensures that virtualisation solutions are well tailored to your business needs.
As an IBM business partner, we are well positioned in being able to provide a full end-to-end solution, from the design, procurement, and deployment of physical hardware right through to the architecture, implementation, and migration of your new or existing virtualised environment.
Advent One becomes a FileNet partner.
Apr 2009Advent One has become a FileNet business partner extending its existing content and records management focus. Advent One is uniquely positioned to offer services and advice across both the traditional IBM Content Management and the FileNet portfolio. This breadth of knowledge is invaluable when evaluating the various products and options available and when choosing the appropriate repositories for your needs.
IBM's acquisition of FileNet complements its existing content and records management offerings. The FileNet portfolio of products offers enhanced process-centric business process management that extends the traditional document-centric lifecycle management to capture process information prior to and beyond the creation of documents. This SOA compliant framework allows external events to trigger events within a process and vice versa.
FileNet also offers extensive records management facilities that automatically categorises and declares records on creation of a document or as part of a business process rather than encumbering the user. Records management can be extended to incorporate other unstructured repositories under a single records management policy providing consistent and coordinated retention and destruction of documents.
Advent One: IBM’s Victorian Solution Provider of the Year
Mar 2009On March 12, Advent One were awarded Victorian Solution Provider of the Year for 2008. This was the second year running that Advent One had taken out this award. Growth with IBM's Systems and Technology Group in excess of 60% last year was achieved through development of scalable enterprise architectures for key clients in the Health, Education and Distribution/Retail industries. Graeme Clark, Managing Director, accepted the award on behalf of Advent One at the IBM Business Partner Summit.
Enterprise Email: Risk, Responsibility, Compliance & Control
Mar 2009In conjunction with MacPherson and Kelley Lawyers, Advent One presented a breakfast seminar on the risks that unchecked email can be exposing your company to. This was followed by a discussion of the various solutions that Advent One and IBM offer to minimise these risks.
MacPherson + Kelley lawyers specialise in contractual and intellectual property law. They employ over 150 people, including 24 Principals, over 70 Lawyers all dedicated to advising growing corporations: public companies, subsidiaries of multinationals, privately owned businesses and local authorities.
 | MacPherson + Kelley Presentation |
| Risk and Compliance Solutions Overview |
Advent One: IBM’s Victorian Solution Provider of the Year
May 2008Our team was delighted to learn that IBM had chosen Advent One as its best solution provider for calendar year 2007. Chairman & Founder Robert Bassat says that he is immensely proud of the achievement. “This is solid recognition of our team and its ability to deliver outstanding levels of service to our clients. That’s what we’re here to do, but having our efforts recognised by IBM is very gratifying indeed.”
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Intellinx at Police CreditApril 2008 |
Victoria’s Police Credit has recently deployed the Intellinx solution for insider threat detection and prevention
Police Credit was founded in 1974 by a group of Police officers and has been servicing members for more than 30 years. Today, it is one of the largest credit co-operatives in Victoria, with a membership of over 80,000 members, and assets in excess of $800million. Police Credit offers a wide range of financial services to specific sectors of the community – emergency services, the health industry and government departments, as well as families and friends.
Its mission is to assist members in maximising their financial wellbeing and security, by providing a convenient, secure place to save and an economical place to borrow. Police Credit is wholly owned by its members, who are all equal shareholders.
Working with Advent One, Police Credit quickly recognised the potential value of Intellinx in meeting its compliance obligations, minimising fraud and protecting the privacy of its members.
Following a comprehensive Proof of Concept, Police Credit decided to proceed with its implementation of Intellinx. For some time, Intellinx has been monitoring all user activities for Police Credit’s internet banking service. The institution is currently extending deployment to its traditional banking and loan applications services.
Intellinx was installed at Police Credit on IBM servers and DB2 relational database manager.
| Press Release: Intellinx at Police Credit |
Peter MacCallum maximises storage March 2008 |
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is Australia’s foremost Cancer Centre, with the mission of providing quality treatment and support to patients and their families. Underpinned by research and the best evidence available, Peter Mac broadly influences cancer care in the community through multi-disciplinary partnerships, research and education.
The challenge the Peter Mac IT team faced was escalating demands on existing storage, with insufficient budget for a wholesale upgrade of their storage environment.
Advent One’s solution included IBM’s SAN Volume Controller, TotalStorage Productivity Center and additional data storage equipment to cater for growth. Plus, they provided comprehensive implementation services to integrate the new software and hardware with Peter MacCallum’s existing storage capacity. The result is cost effective, scalable data storage and delivery.
ICT Manager Nuno Goncalves says, "We were dealing with an ever increasing demand on storage space; our challenge was to find a solution that was scalable and expandable. The solution would also need to have minimal impact on our Hospital's operations. IBM's SAN Volume Controller allowed us to take advantage of our existing investment, while expanding on capacity and functionality.
“With the assistance of Advent One, we are now capable of expanding and allocating storage on the fly with minimal administration. As we move to virtualise our server hardware and review our disaster recovery process, SVC and VMware will play a major part in our goal to deliver stable and reliable ICT services to Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre."
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Murray Goulburn improves SAP response timesMarch 2008 |
Murray Goulburn Cooperative (MGC) is Australia’s leading dairy business and the largest exporter of processed food – best known locally for its Devondale brand. To support business growth and ever increasing system demand, the company needed an IT infrastructure that could be highly scalable and flexible. Response times and performance were serious issues.
Advent One’s solution included IBM’s SAN Volume Controller, Tivoli Storage Manager and additional data storage equipment to cater for growth – plus comprehensive implementation services.
Murray Goulburn’s IT Manager, Paul Stancill, says: “The continuing expansion and use of our SAP system was showing signs of degradation. There were 600 users using the production system. Response times were poor, storage capacity had reached its limit, the backup process was taking a long time and our Sun equipment had reached the limits of its expansion. We were looking for a flexible and scaleable platform that would, first, enable us to get our response times back to good levels, but then also allow us to cater for further growth in the future.
“Working with IBM and their Business Partner Advent One, we have consolidated from seven Sun servers to a single IBM Series p5 server. We have decreased CPUs from 26 to four – resulting in reduced software licensing charges – while improving SAP response times.
“Advent One was able to smooth the process of dealing with IBM, which is better done by a small, nimble partner… Advent One has fulfilled that position very well.”
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Advent One partners with VMware November 2007 |
Advent One has signed a partnership agreement with VMware, the leading provider of virtualisation solutions. Now a division of EMC, VMware pioneered the development of software that enables multiple applications to run on a single processor, and multiple processors to run within a single chassis.
Advent One will integrate and support VMware directly, or in conjunction with IBM hardware systems.
