Easynet seals deal with global manufacturer James Walker

LONDON, UK: For the manufacturer, the rapid pace of change, supply chain complexity and constant need to reduce costs calls for creative, innovative IT. Global manufacturer James Walker is addressing these challenges head-on and taking its IT to the next level with Easynet Global Services.

An Easynet customer for six years, IT underpins James Walker's organisation. A new five-year contract with Easynet will provide the platform to support the business' global growth plans and improve customer satisfaction. It will also enable it to deliver the reliability and efficiency of service on which its customers have come to depend.

A dynamic global manufacturing business, James Walker is responsible for supplying a vast range of high performance fluid sealing products and knowledge-based services to almost every sector of the industry. In the UK alone it has 11 production, engineering, distribution and customer support sites and a further 40 across the rest of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, South Africa and the USA. From Research and Development and manufacturing, to product application and plant refurbishment, its success hinges on communication, collaboration and effective IT.

As the James Walker business has evolved, the availability of the network and its ability to support the delivery of applications to end-users has become increasingly important. With this in mind Easynet has worked very closely with the James Walker IT team, upgrading the network to ensure it has the capacity and the resilience to support video and data and -in the future - voice, and extending this infrastructure to incorporate new sales offices.