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Mercer & Hole is a top 40 Accountancy firm with 450 members of staff, operating offices in London, St Albans, Rickmansworth, and Milton Keynes.

The firm is part of The Association of Practising Accountants, which promotes knowledge sharing among member firms.

Mercer & Hole provides a comprehensive range of services, including audit, tax, business advisory, and financial planning.

Results

With the help of the boxxe Group, Mercer & Hole achieved a modernised, stable IT infrastructure with reduced overheads, enabling the firm to support growth and scale effectively. The implementation of proactive monitoring and managed services allowed their small IT team to focus on strategic initiatives. The firm reported using less than 10% of the power previously required by the old equipment.

Services Delivered

Significant reduction in IT overheads, using 10% of previous system’s power, and improved IT infrastructure stability and performance, through an Infrastructure Health Check. Expert consultancy identified issues with the existing infrastructure, rectifying them to stability.

Technologies Deployed

Providing a modern data centre based on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure and Nutanix virtualisation. Migration to the cloud of Exchange & Citrix. 

Industry Sector

Mercer & Hole is a firm of Chartered Accountants (‘a top 40 accountancy firm’) with 450 members of staff.

Business Driver

Following an internal assessment of IT and the challenges the organisation was facing, it was deemed business critical to prioritise the planning and delivery of a fully managed IT service.

Mercer & Hole

Challenge

After their IT Manager moved on, Mercer & Hole faced numerous IT issues due to an aged IT infrastructure that wasn't aligned with today’s business needs. The lack of internal IT resources made it difficult to support day-to-day operations and plan for future growth. So the boxxe Group offered a comprehensive and cost-effective solution to address these challenges.

Plan

The boxxe Group was selected to provide a fully managed IT service, starting with an Infrastructure Health Check to identify and rectify issues. The plan included the implementation of a modern data centre based on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure, Nutanix virtualisation, and the migration of Exchange & Citrix to the cloud. This approach aimed to stabilise the existing infrastructure while providing a scalable solution for future growth.

Approach

The team provided expert consultancy to stabilise the existing infrastructure and implemented a managed service to support their IT needs. This included proactive monitoring to identify potential issues before they became problems, specialist third-line support for complex issues, patch management to reduce workload, and out-of-hours support for VIP users. The boxxe Group also helped define and implement a digital strategy aligned with Mercer & Hole's business goals, ensuring that IT infrastructure supported the firm's strategic initiatives.

Outcome

The new data centre based on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure resulted in reduced IT overheads, with Mercer & Hole using less than 10% of the power previously required by the old equipment. The modernised IT infrastructure provided enhanced stability and performance, enabling the firm to support its growth and scale effectively. The proactive monitoring and managed services implemented by the boxxe Group allowed the IT team to focus on strategic initiatives, ensuring the firm's long-term success.

The team has worked with us on strategic and longer-term views. We have an operation that is 24/7 so a high level of support is essential to our firm.

We had a technical issue at the last minute and the boxxe Group team worked late on Friday through to Saturday morning to ensure that they delivered the service to us on time.

Their role within the project has been essential, without them I’m not sure it would have gone ahead as seamlessly as it did. We work in partnership with our clients and the boxxe Group works with us.

Philip Fenn
Business Advisory Partner
Mercer & Hole

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