Radicon jumps on cloud to beat acquisition deadline

The agreement will also see ICM transfer Radicon's systems in record time as the firm has just 150 days to separate its IT from the previous parent company, following its recent acquisition by Indian engineering giant Elecon. Chris Riley, business manager at Radicon, explains that, as part of the three-quarter of a million pound contract, the systems hosted and managed by ICM will also include Radicon's ERP system, as well as all data, email and IP telephony. Additionally, ICM will deploy and manage a WAN to connect Radicon's Huddersfield headquarters with sites in the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as provide service desk support for IT users within the business. "Radicon has just 150 days to become self sufficient in its IT provision, and we realised that we would be unable to build our own infrastructure within this deadline," states Riley. "This is a huge task, especially as we have been part of a larger group for 150 years and that it can take up to 90 days just to get a new broadband communications line. We are sure that ICM will deliver against this challenge," he adds. . Riley makes the point that, just as with other manufacturers, if its IT fails, the firm can't do business—so the security and reliability of ICM's data centre was a key decision maker. "Once completed, we will have a much improved IT system, supported by a huge knowledge base of ICM experts, which we could never employ in-house. Outsourcing has been a no-brainer in terms of the benefits it will deliver our business," says Riley.