Veda Advantage
is the leading provider of credit bureau services in Australia and New Zealand for both individual and commercial purposes.
As a bureau they provide comprehensive coverage and analysis of the credit-active population, including individuals, companies, businesses and sole traders. This includes acting as an independent source of information on credit applicants, enabling the credit providers to make an informed decision during the application process.
Veda Advantage and SASIT
In July 2006 Baycorp Advantage (who subsequently changed their name to Veda Advantage in November 2006) outsourced the management of their System i server environment to SASIT. In November 2007, following several months of planning, SASIT successfully migrated the complete NZ environment to SASIT owned i5 servers. The production systems, which reside in the SASIT datacentre in Great South Road, Greenlane, are fully mirrored, with the DR environment being based at the Datacom datacentre located elsewhere.
With the system and software upgrades that have taken place recently, the business is now far more resilient than previously, and is therefore very well placed to meet the high level demands required by its customers.
Of the new contract John Roberts, New Zealand Country Director for Veda Advantage commented, " Following a lengthy review of how we should manage our ongoing technology requirements, we decided that partnering with a systems outsourcing organisation such as SAS was the best model for us to follow. We went to market & briefed a number of organisations to respond to our requirements. One critical factor for us was to have a seamless transition as our business is accessed by our customer base 24/7.
SASIT by far offered us the best solution in terms of the project scoping, planning, implementation & ongoing management.
The outcome for us has been beyond expectations. We now not only have a more stable environment, but a technology solution which is providing quicker response to our customer's enquiries. The migration also came in on time & on budget.
This has been a very positive move for us. We now see SAS as an extension of our organisation.
