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156 subsidiaries , manage access to cloud services with single sign-on and quickly deploy user and device services like multi factor authentication ( MFA ) and conditional access which have traditionally been complex or expensive to deploy and maintain .”
A NEW WORK ENVIRONMENT The second pillar , which ran in parallel with the infrastructure overhaul , was building a modern workplace , which wasn ’ t just a hardware and Windows refresh , but a full rethink on how to securely access , surface and share information across subsidiaries , how to enable ‘ boundless collaboration ’ no matter what time-zone people were in or device they were using and how to provide a consistent and integrated experience for everybody . To achieve this , Turnbull deployed Office 365 , starting with Yammer . He progressively introduced core services including Exchange Online , Skype for Business , OneDrive and Microsoft Teams across Australia and the UK with plans to integrate the other international subsidiaries over the next 12 months . “ Yammer was the first Office 365 service we deployed in Australia ,” he says . “ It is a great tool for building
“ We have built a virtual data centre capability in Azure , and challenged ourselves to have 80 % of our workload running in the cloud by 2020 ”
— Peter Turnbull , CIO , BAI Communications
OCTOBER 2018