With 120 car dealers all over Norway and more than 1000 mechanics repairing Audis, Volkswagens and Skodas, it is entirely natural for Harald A. Møller AS to want to protect its corporate data.
If control were not maintained over the ICT infrastructure, systems and data, it is easy to imagine how the company could face challenges if critical data were lost. But with local backup support from Proact, which has offices nearby, the company is in safe hands.
Biggest car company in Norway
Since being founded in 1936, Harald A. Møller and the Møller Group have imported more than a million cars to Norway. After 70 years, the company is now Norway's fourth-biggest familyrun company, with 3100 employees in five countries. The Møller Group is Norway's biggest car company, with 2550 employees and a turnover of around NOK 14 billion.
As well as importing and selling, servicing and financing cars, the Group also works with the development and running of properties, mainly involving car dealers in Norway, Sweden and the Baltic states.
Local support crucial
“When our ICT department needed to select a new backup solution for our car dealer systems in 2001, local support was an important factor in our decision," explains Bjørn Asprem, Head of IT Operations. "At the end of the day, it is of course a lot easier to work with local suppliers, and Proact is local to us.”
Many phases After having undergone many IT phases from the late 1960s, when Harald A. Møller AS started using electronic data processing for the first time, the IT department has always derived strong experience from what they have been working with; From punch cards and mainframe operation and client-server technology to today's networkand Windows-based three-layer architecture. The latest modernisation drive began in 1997 with the IT-2000 project. Nowadays, the Group's hardware infrastructure consists mainly of HP servers and Windowsbased PCs linked to high-speed networks all over Norway.
Multidisciplinary IT department The 50 employees working at the IT department have enormous scope of experience and expertise and work with lots of different fields. They supply IT services to the entire car dealer network in Norway, but to the Baltic states and, in part, to Sweden as well. Five specialist departments provide these services: one which is responsible for a car system which allows dealers to order cars, follow up their orders, etc.; one which develops and manages the workshop systems; one department which is responsible for office support systems; the IT infrastructure department; and a customer centre which supplies support.
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