{"id":1206,"date":"2016-10-26T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/cio-interview-alan-crawford-city-guilds-group.html"},"modified":"2016-10-26T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:52:58","slug":"cio-interview-alan-crawford-city-guilds-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/cio-interview-alan-crawford-city-guilds-group.html","title":{"rendered":"CIO interview: Alan Crawford, City & Guilds Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simplifying a different IT estate<\/h3>\n

Helping newly assimilated organisations negotiate their newly stretched and unknown IT landscape is an area Crawford has sold knowledge in.<\/p>\n

He assimilated Help a Aged as IT executive in 2007, only forward of a organisation\u2019s partnership with Age Concern, that resulted in a origination of a Age UK code in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went out of IT for a year on a secondment to work on a partnership as a programme manager, that was a good experience,\u201d he says. \u201cI afterwards went on to turn a initial IT director.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will need connectivity to both Microsoft and AWS, and we can\u2019t means to tighten ourselves off\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan Crawford, City Guilds Group<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThat was a genuine merger, where we had to build all new: a networks, datacentres, IT support, financial systems and CRM [customer attribute management]. Everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had dual to 3 of any kind of technology, and it was a unequivocally good experience, though also 3 or 4 years of tough work.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is this knowledge Crawford intends to move to his stream role, as he gets to grips with how best to facilitate a IT estate of a companies that make adult a City Guilds Group, and any other destiny acquisitions a organization decides to embark on.<\/p>\n

The City Guilds partial of a organization uses Microsoft Azure, but, as formerly stated, other collection of a business have hosting contracts in place with other cloud and datacentre providers, including AWS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to be operative with both Amazon and Azure in a short-to-medium term, and since we have contracts in place still to run, we will be using some-more on-premise, third-party private cloud providers within a organization estate for a subsequent dual to 3 years during least,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhichever approach we go after that, we will finish adult with a hybrid cloud, and we have a transparent instruction of where we wish to take a business, that would need connectivity to both Azure and AWS.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond that, standardising some of a organisation\u2019s back-office IT is another entrance Crawford is exploring, that will embody eventually relocating any worker on to\u00a0Office 365<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft\u2019s online business capability suite.<\/p>\n

Alongside this effort, he is now identifying that systems and applications give any organization within a City Guilds organization their rival edge.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a front end, we need larger lively and innovation, quite where a customer-facing issues are concerned,\u201d says Crawford.\u00a0\u201cThen we have a ubiquitous bureau and partnership collection any bureau uses. we wish us to standardize there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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