Fulton Hogan boosts agility with DXC

In 1933, Julius Fulton and Robert Hogan founded Fulton Hogan in Dunedin, New Zealand. Since then, the company has grown to be one of the largest infrastructure construction, roadworks and aggregate supplier companies in New Zealand, with an active presence in wider Australasia.

Business challenge

Fulton Hogan uses a JD Edwards’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to manage its business applications. The ERP and associated Enterprise Applications have 70 SQL servers and several hundred databases attached to them.

In a highly competitive industry that demands an agile and adaptable IT infrastructure to incorporate change as needed, Fulton Hogan were looking for a partner to provide the IT expertise for an automated, policy-driven management tool for their large and complex SQL server environment to keep their applications running smoothly.

Solution

Having evaluated different vendors, and learned that DXC’s SQL Server Monitoring and Automation Services team had senior, experienced technical resources who have successfully delivered countless projects for customers across the full range of Microsoft SQL Server features, Fulton Hogan selected DXC as their partner to manage maintenance of its ERP platform as well as support of its SQL databases.

Maintaining cost efficiency and reducing capital expenses is imperative in the construction industry. Fulton Hogan realised that partnering with DXC would enable the organisation to focus on its core business, while DXC managed the end to end maintenance and support of its SQL databases.

Database management can be costly and repetitive, making it suitable for automation. With the implementation of DXC’s Automated Management for Microsoft Solutions, Fulton Hogan now has an automated, top down, policy-driven management tool for SQL server environment, enabling the organisation to improve service delivery, reduce costs and increase compliance across its database environments.

Outcomes and benefits

Fulton Hogan now enjoys quality, highly responsive IT expertise, and 24x7 infrastructure reliability and stability.

DXC Automated Management for Microsoft solutions has enabled Fulton Hogan to self-manage and automate the support, upgrade and end to end maintenance of its SQL server systems. The solution ensures Fulton Hogan’s environment is constantly monitored and maintained, enabling the organisation to reduce costs and drive improvements in system management and performance.

Fulton Hogan no longer needs internal resources to manage its SQL servers and databases. The organisation can now leave operation support and day to day management to industry experts and trusted partners, DXC – leaving Fulton Hogan’s core IT team to focus on the business.

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