Accelerating Secure Access

Facing a need for secure logins, an Oil and Gas client enlisted BlueSky IT Partners to manage an SSO/IGA RFP. Overwhelmed with other projects, the CIO relied on BlueSky’s expertise to navigate the vendor landscape, streamline the process, and make informed decisions. This collaboration shortened the RFP timeline by 70%, leading to the selection of two previously unknown vendors with the best pricing and solutions.

Challenge: The legacy MPLS network was unstable, resulting in business disruptions, and very costly, with egregious contract terms. Client had no flexibility for moves and changes to the network without extending the contract or adding more unnecessary costs.

Solutions: The client leveraged existing Cisco hardware with a Meraki SD-WAN solution. BlueSky brought best of breed telecom carrier providers to an express RFP process to obtain competitive DIA, Broadband and 4G pricing for all sites. BlueSky was intregual in facilitating the selection process, obtaining client favored contract language and and supported the installations with their global smart hands field services.

Impact: The solution resulted in a 10x improvement in bandwidth, full redundancy at all sites and a 40% in cost savings. Client now had full control over the site traffic shaping, view to the IP address and application, and leveraged active / active connections at each site. Savings was 60k per month, 2.16 million over term.

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